The Consortium Supplier of the Year award

SCA Tissue Europe’s ‘green’ credentials have helped to win the company a Supplier of the Year award from The Consortium. The Tork tissue manufacturer beat off competition from five other shortlisted companies to collect The Consortium’s care sector award.

Daniel Baugh, category manager of The Consortium, said: “Through what has been a volatile period for paper products, SCA Tissue Europe has always offered products and support at the right price and quality, ensuring consistency and good value...

Chewing gum gets the cold shoulder

Pedestrian areas blighted by discarded and trodden down chewing gum are being given a new lease of life, thanks to a cleaning technique that’s completely environment friendly.

Market Harborough-based Gum Blast UK is using dry ice to successfully remove the chewing gum menace from public area surfaces. Dry ice cleaning is described by Gum Blast UK, sister company to Ice Blast UK, as ‘a revolution in cleaning and restoration’.

Retail parks, schools, colleges, shopping centres and public spaces...

Deep cleaning, every day

Cleaning machine specialist Kärcher has introduced a light, compact hard floor cleaner that spells an end to the problems associated with mop and bucket cleaning. The new BR 30/4 C scrubs and dries floors in a single pass, saving time, giving better results and increasing safety when compared to mop and bucket cleaning.

The machine gives consistently high quality cleaning results on a variety of hard floor surfaces and is ideal for locations such as kitchens, changing areas, WCs and even...

Detergent-free cleaning: the way ahead?

Chemspec-Europe believes that its time to re-think carpet cleaning. Detergent Free Cleaning means that all you have learnt about pH, surfactants and different products for different systems are a thing of the past.

DFC is a new category of speciality cleaners that change the rules in manufacturing and using cleaning products. Most existing products, including environmentally preferable cleaners, contain ingredients not natural to our environment and that have known or suspected harmful...

Looking after tomorrow today

The launch last year of the AutoSave range of vacuum cleaners by Numatic International has been a great success.

This is a perfect example of common sense development and technology which has stood the company in good stead for the last 20 years or more. The AutoSave system (patent applied for) means that every time you switch on your vacuum cleaner you will automatically start on the economy setting - only if more power is needed to cope with extra dirt do you need to push the red switch to...

A green twist

Twister is a revolutionary cleaning system consisting of floor pads prepared with billions of microscopic diamonds which clean and polish the floor mechanically instead of using chemicals. 

Twister can be used on the most common floor surfaces such as terrazzo, natural stone, concrete, vinyl and epoxy.  Twister is the tool that transforms your dull, worn floors into clean, glossy and brightly polished floors. Twister has unique advantages that benefit both the cleaning company and the floor...