When it comes to greening carpet cleaning, many hotel and hospitality facilities that have taken significant steps to implement green cleaning strategies tend to overlook a key environmental concern. What’s happening? Are they using environmentally preferable carpet care chemicals, spotters, and related products? In most cases, yes. Are they employing high-performance carpet extractors to more effectively remove moisture from carpets, helping to reduce drying times and prevent the growth of mold, mildew, and other contaminants? Again, in most cases, yes. To conserve water and use it more efficiently, are some properties using carpet extractors that recycle water and solution?...

WEST CHESTER, OHIO—Mean Green Industrial Strength Cleaner & Degreaser, specially formulated for the most challenging industrial applications, is detailed in a new four-page, full-color brochure. Available in spray bottles, gallons, 5-, 30- and 55-gallon containers, and new 275-gallon totes, Mean Green dissolves grease, grime and stains. It is ideal for removing stubborn floor stains on concrete.This cleaner has 40 percent more cleaning ingredients, so grease and grime are quickly dissolved. With 30 percent more solvents and 20 percent more surfactants, stubborn stains are lifted off all surfaces—from fabric to concrete. Mean Green has doubled the amount of Chelating Agent,...

NAPLES, FLA.—Industrial Nanotech, Inc. introduces Intelligent Shield by EnviroECOats, an exterior coating scientifically designed to be highly reflective, self cleaning, mold resistant, and energy saving. The coating is water-based, environmentally friendly and low VOC (40 g/L), and offers several Cool Color choices for exterior painting projects. The product is designed to reduce cooling costs for homes and commercial buildings, while also offering a self-cleaning surface to reduce maintenance costs. It can be used over many types of building surfaces such as brick, drywall, vinyl siding, wood, stucco, concrete and more. This nanotechnology-based coating is easily applied with a paint...

CROTON, N.Y.—Polaris Vending, Inc. announces the launch of the patent-pending COILPOD dust containment bag which is an environmentally-friendly solution for the indoor cleaning of self-contained condenser coil units in refrigerated or freezer merchandiser display cases containing food or beverages. A person desiring to clean the condenser coils contained in such appliances first places the COILPOD bag (approx. 28” wide x 13” deep x 18” high) over the coil structure and then simultaneously supplies exhaust air and vacuum from a “shop vac” through two ports in the bag’s surface to remove debris from the coils while vacuuming it into the...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added more than 130 chemicals to its Safer Chemical Ingredients List. For the first time, 119 chemicals that use fragrance for commercial and consumer cleaning products have been added to the list. “Fragrances are an important yet complex part of many consumer cleaning products,” said James Jones, acting assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. “By adding fragrance and other chemicals to the Safer Chemical Ingredients List, EPA continues its commitment to help companies make safer products and provide the public with greater access to chemical information.”The...

LISLE, ILL.—Air Cycle Corp. has unveiled Viking Pure, an electrolyzed water technology that allows organizations of all varieties to create their own non-toxic cleaning and sanitizing solutions on-site, in real-time and for a fraction of the cost of traditional cleaning and sanitizing chemicals. This is done using water, a little salt, and a small charge of electricity. The system transforms the ions in the water into two safe solutions.Within the unit, chloride ions are converted into Hypochlorous Acid (HOCl), a sanitizer with a kill time of just seconds, while sodium ions are transformed into Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH), an alkaline...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Green Seal, the nation’s oldest nonprofit environmental certification organization and the original “Green Seal of Approval,” announces the beginning of the Green Seal Blog. The blog is posted on the organization’s website at www.greenseal-blog.com.According to Brie Welzer, the blog is specifically designed “to share lessons learned and helpful habits developed over Green Seal’s more than 20 years of eco-labeling and environmental work.”Postings from various Green Seal team members will be added to the blog on an ongoing basis. Some of the first posts are from Green Seal CEO Arthur Weissman (whose postings are called “CEO Corner”). There is...

FORT WORTH, TEXAS—Traulsen announced the latest in a series of new customer-inspired equipment features for its refrigerators and hot-holding cabinets. The EZ-Clean Gasket and Bare Tube Coil follow the launch of the EZ-Open Foot Pedal and EZ-Change Interiors earlier this year.     “By listening to our customers Traulsen continually incorporates new ways to improve our products, services and business,” said John Davis, director of engineering and marketing for Traulsen. “Four new equipment features and our industry-leading three-year equipment warranty are all examples of innovations introduced in the past 12 months to help customers gain efficiencies in their operations.” Made...

CHICAGO—PortionPac Chemical Corp. has launched a new auto scrubber floor-care line of its signature unit-dose concentrates. The new system is optimized for auto-scrubber and carpet extraction machines in industrial janitorial applications.The new system consists of a complete line of cleaners: MopPacLITE, a pH neutral everyday cleaner; ScrubPac, a heavy duty power scrubber; PowerPac, an industrial strength degreaser; and NeutraPac, a floor conditioner.“We decided to create this line because our customers wanted a way to translate the PortionPac manual floor mopping program into one that would be compatible with auto scrubbers,” said PortionPac national sales manager Jerry Goldman. “The janitorial...

NEW YORK—Worksman Cycles, America’s oldest cycle manufacturer, announces an expanded and upgraded line of Industrial Cycles for the hospitality industry. Featuring bicycles, tricycles and even quadcycles, Worksman offers a complete range of Industrial Cycles for any lodging application including grounds and maintenance, housekeeping, security and activities.Long known for their “super-duty” capabilities—credit the fully lugged and hand-brazed steel frames, industrial rated axles, chains and rims and range of baskets, cabinets and platform—Worksman can now boast of their environmentally conscious benefits as well. Produced in its solar-powered factory in New York City, the cycles are finished with water-based, vegetable pigment paints....