Carpet Care 101: Pricing and Production Rates
This article is the second in a two-part series that aims to cover everything you need to know about carpet cleaning. In the first part of the series, we discussed the ...
Workloading: Finding the Right Balance
Cleaning represents 20 percent to 35 percent of the total maintenance and operations budget for nearly any type of organization. In other words, cleaning—whether performed in house or by a ...
Class “A” & Intending to Stay That Way
When Mall of America® (MOA), the largest shopping complex in the United States, broke ground on a 10-story office building attached to its retail space, competition for corporate tenants and ...
Keep Commercial Carpeting Looking Its Best
Office buildings, schools, hospitals, retail outlets, and other commercial properties experience a large amount of foot traffic. With the traffic comes tracked-in dirt that soils the carpet and creates an ...
Peers Weigh In on Carpet Care
I recently posted a question in our LinkedIn group, ISSA—the Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association. With more than 28,000 members, it is the largest cleaning-industry-specific group on the business site. My ...
Chemcraft Industries: A Story of Survival in Chicago
When you’re on hold on the phone with Chemcraft Industries’ Chicago, IL, office, a friendly recorded voice greets you with some historical facts. “The year was 1947; the Dead Sea ...
Seven Steps to Drive Sustainability
The professional cleaning industry has done a great job with green cleaning. Today over 30 percent of all cleaning products in the professional space are considered green, whereas green products ...
The Future of Floor Care
Technology has become such an integral part of daily life that we often don’t realize just how advanced the products we use have become. Cell phones, televisions, cars, washing machines—to ...
Market Trends Impacting the Jansan Industry
Rising labor costs with minimum-wage increases are driving industrial and institutional (I&I) end-users to cut back on costs, which includes less spending on cleaning chemicals and/or reduced frequency of performing ...
Get Set for a Sensational Show
The most important week in the cleaning industry is almost upon us! ISSA/INTERCLEAN North America® 2016 provides participants with a plethora of educational sessions and networking opportunities. But how can ...
