New Rubbermaid Lumecel technology says "No" to continually replacing batteries

Rubbermaid Commercial Products (RCP) has launched the revolutionary Lumecel, a rechargeable energy cell which transforms light into power, meaning batteries will no longer have to be purchased or replaced.
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Report: More US companies reporting on sustainability

More US-based corporations are reporting the steps they are taking to become more sustainable, according to a recent survey from the Conference Board, an independent business research association working in the public interest, and Bloomberg News.
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Julius Rutherfoord launches groundbreaking biometric based time and attendance system

Managing a large number of mobile cleaners across hundreds of sites is a challenge. London contractor Julius Rutherfoord, has launched a groundbreaking biometric based time and attendance system, which helps safeguard the security of sites and the cleaning team, whilst ensuring clients receive the level of service they deserve.
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Handcare drives the US I&I cleaners industry, posting 3.6% growth in 2015, finds Kline

In the wake of many infectious diseases, growing awareness of hand hygiene has been driving the market for industrial and institutional (I&I) hand care products in the US.
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Before and after tests prove benefits of aqueous ozone cleaning system

Recently released ATP test results (a process of rapidly measuring actively growing microorganisms through detection of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP) using an aqueous ozone cleaning system to clean five different surfaces, show the powerful effectiveness of this cleaning technology.
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TVH acquires assets of Danish DanTruck ApS

TVH Group has acquired the assets of the Danish lift truck manufacturer DanTruck ApS.
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Wecoline introduces new red scrub pad for daily floor cleaning

Wecoline has introduced a new red scrub pad made from the well-known Full Cycle Americo material. This new red quality has been developed to produce a pad with more cleaning power, without adding any abrasive grains to the pad.
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Holchem addresses spread of Summer illnesses with summer spill kit

Holchem has launched an Industrial Spill Kit. Aimed at businesses where hygiene standards are of the utmost importance, the kit is designed to clean up the effects of illnesses such as Norovirus and contain them to restrict the spread in the workplace.
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Charles Bentley launches hygienic toilet brush

Charles Bentley & Son has become the exclusive distributor of a new hygienic toilet brush, after launching the product in the UK and Continental Europe.
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Quick hygiene test for the brewing industry

Some of the major challenges for brewers are to make safe quality beer that maintains consumer confidence, while meeting retailer expectations and minimising both costs and wastage.
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Amsterdam Innovation Awards 2016 shortlist announced from record number of entries

The jury of the 11th edition of the ISSA/Interclean Amsterdam Innovation Awards has this week announced the nine shortlisted nominees from a record total of 110 entries.
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Becoming part of the Legend...

To provide the cleaning and flood restoration industries with a single source for all of their equipment and solution needs, Dri-Eaz Products and Chemspec Europe, joined forces as of Tuesday 1st March 2016, to become Legend Brands Europe.
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Permanent coating provides a one step solution to rust treatment

Water, energy and maintenance solutions provider NCH Europe's Maintenance and Partsmaster Innovation Platform has launched Salvage 2+, a durable permanent coating product that prevents liquid from causing corrosion in infrastructure.
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Cleaning on curriculum for children in Singapore

By the end of 2016, students in all Singaporean schools will be involved in the daily cleaning of their school environment, whether it be before the first lesson, during recess, in between lessons, or just before leaving for the day.
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Moerman's new ProClean Combinator is designed to save you time and make you money

Moerman's latest addition to its ProClean family of products, the Combinator, is an innovative combination tool designed from the ground up using the company's E.A.S.E. (Efficiency, Amazing results, Safety and Ergonomics) design principles.
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Apply some pressure with Briggs & Stratton

Briggs & Stratton, the world's largest manufacturer of petrol powered outdoor equipment, has launched its new power product line up for the 2016 season which features six new pressure washers.
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Taski Intellibot - robotic cleaning reimagined

The new Taski Intellibot range of automatic robotic cleaning machines from Diversey Care is destined to transform floorcare, building care and facilities management by supporting new ways of working and delivering higher levels of efficiency, performance and value.
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New analysis of UK recovered plastics gives clarity to market situation

The latest data and in-depth information about UK plastics recycling and reprocessing was published on Tuesday in an updated Plastics Market Situation Report. Compiled by the UK's resource efficiency expert WRAP, it includes detailed analysis of recovered plastic flows, prices and the sustainability of end markets, including the risks and opportunities.
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Fourth year medical student scoops top prize in ETS 2015 Essay Competition

Fourth year medical student, Sarah Freeston, has scooped the prize in the 2015 European Tissue Symposium Essay Competition on the most hygienic way to dry your hands.

Her winning essay was judged the best by the ETS Scientific Panel consisting of six eminent professors and microbiologists from across Europe. She received her cash prize of €1500 at the Faculty Club in the University of Leuven in Belgium last week followed by a lunch with the Scientific Panel.
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Battery-powered Autovac wins Innovation Award at 2016 international cleaning show

Amid several competitors at this year's international Cleaning Show - held earlier this month in Bucharest, Romania, (said to be the sixth-largest city in the European Union and one of Europe's most prosperous cities), Kaivac's battery-powered AutoVac system won the top prize for the most innovative product.

Close to 100 European and North American jansan-related manufacturers exhibited at the event. As of this writing, the total number of visitors to the show has not been released.
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Climate change and lack of sanitation threaten water safety for millions: UNICEF

On Tuesday - World Water Day, UNICEF said the push to bring safe water to millions around the world is going to be even more challenging due to climate change, which threatens both water supply and water safety for millions of children living in drought- or flood-prone areas.

In 2015 at the end of the Millennium Development Goal era, all but 663 million people around the world had drinking water from improved sources - which are supposed to separate water from contact with excreta.
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Bonasystems wins nationwide slip management contract with Mitchells & Butlers

Bonasystems, a market leader in cleaning and anti-slip products, services and consulting, has won a prestigious contract with Mitchells & Butlers to provide slip prevention solutions to 400 of its outlets. Mitchells & Butlers is one of the UK's largest operators of restaurants, bars and pubs in the UK and its portfolio includes well-known brands such as Harvester, Toby Carvery, All Bar One and O'Neills.

Bonasystems has been engaged to provide slip prevention consultancy, anti-slip treatments and best-practice floor maintenance regimes. It follows a trial across a dozen Mitchells & Butlers' sites where Bonasystems' solutions led to a 60% reduction in slip accidents.
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Easy-to-clean custom wall art could decrease hospital acquired infections

Hospital acquired infections are a rising concern. While experts debate HAI sources, it is universally accepted that increased rigour and frequency of surface cleaning is part of any prevention plan.

Often supported by donors, many hospitals now have art initiatives that include wall art. Disinfectants can damage canvas prints and murals. While walls are not disinfected as frequently as high-touch surfaces, periodic cleaning is necessary.
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Prestige Worldwide Group to seek initial public offering for its nationwide crime scene cleanup company - CrimeSceneCleanUp.com

Prestige Worldwide Group, the parent company of CrimeSceneCleanUp.com, has announced plans to sell shares in its crime scene cleanup and medical waste company. "We are very excited to see investors on Wall Street become part of the first crime scene clean up company ever listed on the stock exchange," said James Michel, CEO of CrimeSceneCleanUp.com. "Our business is virtually recession-proof with very attractive profit margins."
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Rail fastenings manufacturing firm won over by exceptional service

Exceptional customer service backed by impressive service support has convinced a long-established manufacturing firm to invest in the latest cleaning technology from Hako.

Worksop-based Pandrol had been operating an ageing ride-on sweeper which had reached the end of its working life and had been deemed too costly to repair.
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Sharing the benefits of being a Living Wage employer

The increased costs of paying higher wages are a concern to many businesses, so London Living Wage employer CAM Specialist Support - a commercial high-level cleaning and building maintenance business - was happy to share its experiences of the benefits with a group of local businesses recently.
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NCCA courses - some new dates

There have been some changes made to the dates of training courses run by the National Carpet Cleaners Association. The new schedule is:

Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning:
13th - 14th May
8th - 9th July
16th - 17th September
18th - 19th November
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Messe Duesseldorf Group renews contract with ISS for another four years

The Messe Duesseldorf Group has extended its service contract with ISS Germany for another four years starting 1st July. ISS is a long-standing partner of the Messe Duesseldorf, a large German trade fair company.
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Farewell HaFSA; hello Courtauld Commitment 2025!

In June 2012 at the launch of the Hospitality & Food Service Agreement (HaFSA), 70 hospitality and food service organisations committed to collectively deliver targets on food and associated packaging waste prevention, as well as increasing recycling rates.
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Sharing expertise at the highest level

FutureClean Assured Systems, often employed as an expert in the naval and civilian marine industry, and also a consultant to the Royal Navy and Ministry of Defence, shared some of its marine and ship husbandry expertise more widely recently, with a group of Indian marine industry experts and executives out in Mumbai.
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Business owners fear that National Living Wage won't increase productivity

70% of businesses are supportive of the new National Living Wage, though they do not anticipate that it will bring any improvement in productivity.

The findings come from the latest results from the Close Brothers Business Barometer, a quarterly survey which gauges sentiment from CEOs, MDs and other management from around the UK and Ireland.
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Recycle Week - change of date

Following the announcement of the date for the EU Referendum, Recycle Now has decided to move the date of Recycle Week for 2016 from June to 12th - 18th September. The organiser has consulted with a number of its partners and stakeholders and they agree that the intensity of activity around the EU Referendum may have an impact on the success of a Recycle Week in June.
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Cordant Cleaning doubles work with Metroline

London bus company, Metroline, has extended its contract with Cordant Cleaning and more than doubled the scope to include an additional six locations, making a total of nine within North West and West London.
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Industrial cleaning equipment specialist celebrates 50 years in business

To celebrate 50 successful years in business, Harrison Hire & Sales is welcoming past, present and future customers to its Anniversary Open Day at the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington near York.
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Incentive FM Group makes strategic acquisition

Facilities services company Incentive FM Group has acquired Specialist Window Cleaning in a move designed to enable the business to self deliver additional services to its rapidly expanding portfolio of customers.
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CCM proud to become UK distributor for Waterkracht

Columbus Cleaning Machines (North East), which specialises in effective, efficient and environmentally friendly professional cleaning equipment, has recently been appointed the sole UK distributor for the Waterkracht brand of trailer pressure washers.
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Ideal Response supports The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army recently took part in Europe's largest disaster training exercise in Dartford, Kent, feeding over 2000 first respondents across a four-day period. Needless to say, the Emergency Response Units that were used to feed the first respondents, required a thorough clean before being fully ready for the next job.
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10 reasons to start tracking your vehicles

Giselle Bigsby, sales manager of TrackVehicles365, writes...

Vehicle trackers are a small device that can be fitted to any sort of vehicle, and through tracking the vehicle via a GPS signal they offer businesses are huge amount of benefits.
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Soapbox: Zero-hours contracts here to stay; can be positive if managed well

Gerwyn Davies, labour market adviser at The Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, writes in response to yesterday's Office for National Statistics figures on zero-hours contracts...

"Today's figures show a further increase in the number of people on zero-hours contracts, including a growing proportion of people on those contracts for less than a year.
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Expert demonstrations and advice at the Manchester Cleaning Show

This Spring is your opportunity to meet the Bonasystems' experts at the Manchester Cleaning Show from the 6-7 April 2016, at Event City in Manchester. During the Show the team will be running a series of demonstrations on Stand E07.

From Pendulum Tests to the latest anti-slip products, Bonasystems will highlight the most recent developments in floor care, maintenance, and lend advice on how to prevent workplace slips, trips and falls.
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National Dry Cleaners chooses Girbau wet cleaning equipment

"Dry cleaning is changing," says Adrian Redgate, director at National Dry Cleaners. Established in 1897 and based in Nottingham, National Dry Cleaners has an established reputation for high quality cleaning and outstanding customer service. Led today by Adrian Redgate, the great grandson of founder Henry Redgate, it remains a family business.
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Fighting infections with viruses

Scientists at the University of Brighton have shown viruses that can kill bacteria may be used to combat common infections related to the use of medical devices and other equipment.

This new insight could lead to new methods of preventing infections and could contribute to overcoming problems with antibiotic resistance.

The news comes after the recent government review on the antibiotic resistance challenge suggested that deaths from antibiotic resistant infection could exceed deaths from cancer by 2050, and cost the global economy $100 trillion.
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Vote for South London Aramark strike

Some 175 GMB Union members working as cleaners and hostesses for private contractor Aramark at four hospitals making up the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, have voted overwhelmingly for strike action to win a genuine living wage, suitable sick pay and unsocial hours payments.
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2016 Loo of the Year Awards launched

Many businesses pride themselves on the standard of cleaning and maintenance of the building they occupy or that they are responsible for cleaning.

The most frequent place visited by most users of the building is the washrooms. First impressions count and high standards must be achieved consistently if the provider's - and the associated cleaning or FM company's - reputation is to be maintained.
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We have Mail: It's not just truckers that need toilets!

Stephen Munton, of the Domestic Cleaning Alliance, writes in response to last week's leader in which we highlighted the difficulties faced by those who drive for a living - and in particular, delivery drivers...
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