Experience The Latest In Vacuum Innovation
TTI Floor Care North America’s new Hoover TaskVac lineup includes four different and versatile upright commercial vacuums that come equipped with new features to make your tough commercial jobs easier.
View ArticleCleaning Power Begins When Lightning Strikes
Focusing on providing reduced-chemistry alternatives to cleaning such as aqueous ozone can help us become more sustainable as an industry and as a society at large.
View ArticleHard Floor Care e-Newsletter: Summer 2012
Sponsored by Advance, Clarke, ProTeam and Windsor, the Hard Floor Care e-Newsletter is chuck full of insightful content to help you properly clean and maintain your floors and achieve high-gloss,...
View ArticleThe Complementary Nature Of Cleaners And Coatings
As it relates to detergent cleaning compositions, commercial floor care presents one of the more challenging cleaning tasks: Balancing the need for strong cleaners while not harming floor coating...
View ArticlePiecing Together The Measurement Puzzle
Some cleaning organizations may see the value in using ATP-based monitoring systems to detect and measure ATP on surfaces as a method of ensuring facilities are being cleaned properly.
View ArticleWeather The Downturn With Tracking Technology
Accurate information that provides a business owner with the ability to make immediate decisions about his or her operation is crucial.
View ArticleInnovations For The Ages
Goals are like a road map — okay, maybe a global positioning satellite (GPS) because nobody uses physical road maps anymore — they help you get where you want to go and their importance should not be...
View ArticleDistinct Floor Luster Enhances Property Appeal
It is commonly known that clean, well-maintained floors lead to a positive customer impression. For years, industry professionals have focused on a floor’s surface reflectivity, shine and gloss, but a...
View ArticleThe Positives Of Electrolyzed Water
Since 1847, when chlorine was first used as a sanitizer, there have been few, if any, alternatives to the useful, moderately effective but often dangerous substances known as chemical cleaners and...
View ArticleCleaning High-tech Equipment
If sensitive electronics are not regularly cleaned and maintained, they can fail, become damaged or require frequent and often expensive replacement.
View ArticleFully Toxic-free, Chemical-free Technologies
We must seriously consider the use of transitional, enabled and fully chemical-free technologies to meet our need for professional appearance, occupant safety and ecosystem health.
View ArticleThe Maintenance Crisis
By diluting the negative stigmas surrounding the service industry, more people will feel energized about embracing the hands-on, technical roles that are at the core of American ingenuity.
View ArticleGrowing An Industry To New Heights
Using special water-fed poles from the ground eliminates the need for ladders and other equipment used to reach high windows, allowing one to clean windows in a fraction of the time it would normally...
View ArticleLearning About AGM Batteries
AGM batteries are becoming common in the JanSan industry today, but they were used in military aircraft, telecommunications systems, traffic signals and other devices beginning in the mid-1980s.
View ArticleTechnology Can Keep You Going And Growing
Are you keeping up with the latest cleaning software technology? If not, why?
View ArticleThe SC3700 Quiet Clean tackles bare floor, carpet and detail cleaning with ease
Newest addition to popular quiet clean line features convenient accessories for difficult cleaning locations.
View ArticleIntroducing a new extractor with wide-cleaning path, easy operation
Sanitaire now offers the SC6095 self-contained 9-gallon extractor that features a wide-cleaning path, maximum cleaning power and easy operation.
View ArticleCalculating Return On Investment For Equipment Purchases
Return on investment (ROI) is also known as the payback period and is often expressed in a period of time, such as weeks, months or years.
View ArticleShow floor podcast: New cleaning technologies
Our latest podcast from the INTERCLEAN show floor is an interview with Rusty Zay, vice preseident of global marketing with Tennant Company.
View ArticleA Guide To Greener Schools
For facility managers in the education market, it can be hard to know which "green" or "sustainable" practices will actually help reduce costs.
View ArticleIn With The New
It seems to be generational. While many professionals my age and older approach burgeoning technology with a good bit of trepidation, young workers seem comfortably dependent on gizmos and gadgets.
View ArticleGive Maintenance Tasks A Lift
There’s nothing magical about the number 19, yet there’s a misconception that general maintenance projects like painting and cleaning and repairing HVAC, electrical systems or drywall require a...
View ArticleHow To Get The Most Out Of Batteries
The engineering behind battery designs and the manufacturing techniques employed by battery companies have advanced in recent years.
View ArticleNavigating New Technology
Even in the age of smart homes and high-tech office buildings, cleaning remains a stable, if somewhat traditional, industry.
View ArticleMaking Tech A Theme
A popular TV character in the 1980s frequently quipped, “I love it when a plan comes together.” And, as this month’s issue of Cleaning & Maintenance Management was developed and finalized, it...
View ArticleSchools and Scrubbers
It is a known fact that infectious diseases, primarily colds and flu, have a significant impact on the success of students in the classroom and create a substantial cost to school districts.
View ArticleHow to Get a Rave-Review Restroom
To ensure reviews won’t negatively impact revenue, businesses must make cleanliness a priority, especially in restrooms.
View ArticleHow Robots Are Reshaping the Industry
The use of robotics for cleaning is challenging the status quo in the industry, but doing so in a helpful way by disrupting the marketplace.
View ArticleTraining for Tech-Based Cleaning Systems
The introduction of smarter cleaning equipment carries a whole slew of new responsibilities for building service contractors (BSCs), in-house custodial departments, and facility managers.
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