Innovations, Trends & Technology

Hybrid Polymers – More Sustainable Polymer Solutions for I&I Cleaning

By , , |2024-01-05T22:23:18-06:00February 28, 2023|

Recent cleaning product launches in the Industrial and institutional (I&I) cleaning segment indicate this segment is trending greener. Formulators, therefore, may be looking for ingredient alternatives while maintaining or improving overall product cleaning performance. One way to make a cleaning product greener is to select eco-friendly biodegradable ingredients such as hybrid polymers that work as ...

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Cybersecurity and the Cleaning Industry

By |2024-01-05T22:23:15-06:00February 24, 2023|

As our lives and careers become ever more dependent on digital technology, cybersecurity is an issue that affects everyone. Cybercrime can be costly and damaging to a company’s reputation. This is as true for the cleaning industry as it is for any other sector of the economy. Cybersecurity expert Larry Dietz should know. Dietz has ...

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The Inside Story of an ISSA Innovation Award Judge

By |2024-01-05T22:23:02-06:00November 14, 2022|

For years the ISSA Show Innovation Awards Program has been celebrating companies in the commercial, institutional, and residential cleaning community that are addressing challenges with new products and services. The annual awards program honors trailblazing companies for developing innovative products or services that address key challenges industry professionals are trying to solve in their daily ...

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Straight Talk: Rethink Clean

By |2024-01-05T22:22:57-06:00November 9, 2022|

Did it really take Howie Mandel to help convince the world of the need to clean? Maybe, especially if you consider the millions of views of the Howie Clean It video series. Let’s face it. Cleaning—to some—can be a boring topic, a necessary chore that some do more than others. Yet those of us in ...

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Help ISSA End Period Poverty

By |2024-01-05T22:23:04-06:00November 7, 2022|

On October 24, 2022, ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, announced the launch of an educational and advocacy campaign aimed at ending period poverty and advancing period dignity. The new initiative is in partnership with ISSA Hygieia Network, an ISSA Charities™ signature program dedicated to the advancement and retention of women in the cleaning industry. ...

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Robotic Deployment

By |2024-01-05T22:22:51-06:00October 7, 2022|

Everyone has suffered from the “Great Resignation,” or as it is also referred to, the “Great Re-evaluation.” As people re-evaluate what type of work and what kind of schedule they want to work, service companies must also re-evaluate how to deliver their services. They still have contracts to fulfill, regardless of who wants to work ...

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Cleaning Up the Innovation Process

By |2024-01-05T22:22:50-06:00October 3, 2022|

Whether purchasing cleaning and hygiene products for use in commercial buildings or the home, buyers have a seemingly endless number of options from which to choose. From the many multi-surface cleaners and hand sanitizers to disinfectants in spray and wipe formats, today there are even more brands and products trying to capture attention than before ...

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Four Success Factors to Human-Robot Collaboration

By |2024-01-05T22:22:42-06:00August 17, 2022|

The “Great Resignation” phenomena and the underlying demographics will not change anytime soon, making it even more difficult to maintain a reliable and trained distribution facility operations workforce. Steady demand growth, labor shortages, supply chain congestion, and rising costs are testing distribution facility capabilities. Distribution-focused operations are now furiously seeking to automate more and more ...

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Industry Innovators: MoonBeam 3

By |2024-03-21T02:41:12-05:00August 12, 2022|

The future was arriving. More and more innovations, equipped with better technology, artificial intelligence, and much more, were on the horizon. Then, in 2020, the pandemic hit. Amid all the chaos and heartbreak that followed, COVID-19 also put us in fast-forward mode. The pandemic drove a wave of innovation forward at a quicker pace than ...

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Antimicrobial Technologies

By |2024-01-05T22:22:41-06:00August 10, 2022|

Hospitals are busy, bustling environments, especially emergency departments that see hundreds of visitors around the clock every day of the year. If that wasn’t enough, the situation has been made even worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many clinics overwhelmed by an unprecedented number of patients as services reopen. In the United States alone, 10% ...

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