TC continues Tesco expansion

TC Contractors has been successful in a competitive tender for an expanded contract covering 801 Tesco stores across the south of England and Wales.

As well as retaining most of its existing Tesco business, TC Contractors has been awarded an additional 437 outlets belonging to the major supermarket retailer, comprising Express, Metro, Superstores, Extras, Homeplus and dot.com formats. The success in securing the wider contract further enhances TC’s presence in the retail sector.

Peter Ellis,...

Toolstation launches professional cleaning category

Toolstation has just launched its latest catalogue, revealing an impressive 500 new products.

“This is our most significant product increase yet, giving customers a wider brand choice across a broad product range,” said Toolstation’s product marketing manager Christian Egerton. “Catalogue 30 has an additional 16 pages with notable highlights for every trade, and also includes three brand new categories - Cleaning & Pest Control, Ground Maintenance, and Automotive.”

The new Cleaning & Pest...

Care UK specifies ‘energy efficient and productive’ laundry equipment

Care UK, one of the UK’s leading health and social care organisations, has equipped the laundry of its newly-opened Manor Lodge care home in Chelmsford, Essex with the latest energy efficient and high productivity machines from Girbau UK, part of the Girbau Group - manufacturer of commercial and industrial laundry equipment.

After many years of successful collaboration with Girbau UK, Care UK specified four of the company’s 6 Series high-speed washers, four gas dryers and an ironer. High...

10% energy savings for Initial

Initial Washroom Solutions is fulfilling its environmental pledge of reducing energy usage by installing Venturi orifice traps from GEM. Trialled at the company’s new Reading plant, which has a number of on-site steam meters, Initial Washroom Solutions was able to verify a 10% saving in energy consumption despite there being no failures with the plant’s mechanical traps.

Reading is one of three new processing plants opened by Initial Washroom Solutions as part of a modernisation plan to...

Make time for worktime cleaning

Daytime cleaning has attracted a lot of interest recently but is this really the best description? Surely the point is to clean premises when it is most convenient, economical and sustainable for the owner, occupier and contractor? Many of the cost saving and improved service benefits can best be achieved when the building is at its busiest but with our round-the-clock culture this could be at any time of the day. Surely a better term is worktime cleaning?

Recent estimates put the annual value...

Daytime cleaning - good for your health?

Industry experts have been saying for some while now that rising energy costs, heightened security concerns and a labour shortage will combine to make the practice of cleaning at night untenable.

In some cases, night work is the only option, but research suggests that there is now another pressing reason why the industry should switch to daytime cleaning: those who work at night, of which cleaning is obviously one of the most prevalent occupations, are more prone to serious health problems...