While it is not unusual for Chicago, IL, to experience tough winters, the winter of 2014 was one of the worst in the city’s history. Snowfall almost every other day and otherwise frigid conditions caused one local meteorologist to nickname the city “Chiberia.” But Chicago was not the only city that suffered through a brutal ...
No one in the jansan industry needs to be reminded of just how much the world of distribution has changed over the past 15 to 20 years. Today’s distribution channels offer little resemblance to the state of the marketplace during the 1990s. What’s more, some manufacturers now market their products directly to end-customers, a major ...
Will the United States government’s Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI) have an impact on your organization’s ability to capture federal contracts? This big question was on the minds of those whose industries were early targets of strategic sourcing. They included distributors and providers of office supplies, domestic delivery services, printing, and wireless solutions. In every ...
During the last decade, many cleaning-industry professionals have noticed that facilities have shown a preference for installing hard surface floors instead of carpeting. A number of reasons may exist for this shift, including the belief that hard surface floors are easier to maintain and less expensive overall. Over the years, however, trends in floor coverings—as ...
After more than 20 years in the making, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sought to bring closure on its rulemaking regarding antibacterial hand and body soaps by issuing a proposed rule in the December 17, 2013, edition of the Federal Register, the official journal of the federal government of the United States. The ...
TomCat Commercial Cleaning Equipment’s first ISSA/INTERCLEAN® trade show was in 1999. The company had spent much of the previous decade designing and manufacturing sweepers and other cleaning machines for the industrial market, and was looking to branch out to the commercial cleaning market. “At the time, the decision to join ISSA and attend the association’s ...
Founded in the mid-1980s by owner Craig Mawlam, Ionic Systems Ltd. manufactures The Reach & Wash® System, an external window and façade cleaning system. The company began as a window cleaning service provider 25 years ago before beginning to manufacture and provide training in safety equipment for abseiling off high-rise buildings. Reuben Reynolds, Ionic System’s ...
As you probably already know, flu season is here. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reports that a majority of the country is experiencing widespread influenza and more than 20 states are reporting high levels of influenza-like illness. What makes this flu season different is that for the first time since the ...
Lynn Webster Consultants Ltd. (LWC) is a United Kingdom-based cleaning industry consultancy firm that prides itself on being a source of essential expertise for organisations operating in both facilities management and cleaning with in-house or contracted services. Lynn Webster, a 35-year veteran of the cleaning industry who served as national chairman of the British Institute ...
Founded in 1975, professional distribution group IGEFA Handelsgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG has developed tailored solutions for the professional procurement of consumable and durable products. IGEFA is composed of six local, family-owned businesses that provide the foundation for more than 30 IGEFA branches in Germany and throughout Europe. IGEFA supplies a wide range of sanitation, ...
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