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Celtex launches food-safe recycled paper products
14th of May 2014Celtex was showing a new line of food safe recycled paper products on its stand. And the company claims it is highly unusual for recycled products to achieve food safe certification.
The Celtex etissue range includes hand towels, centrefeed rolls and kitchen towels. According to export manager Daniele Mamoli the company invested heavily and spent
Cleanpissup has the last laugh at ISSA/Interclean
14th of May 2014One company causing a few smirks around the exhibition was the aptly - if unfortunately - named Cleanpissup.
The company makes mini tissue dispensers that can be wall-mounted in urinals. These basically do as the name suggests.
"Toilets have toilet paper but up to now there has been no equivalent in urinals," said general manager Marcos Martin
Visitor numbers rise again at ISSA/Interclean
13th of May 2014This year's ISSA/Interclean exhibition in Amsterdam - the 25th edition of the event - has seen an increase in visitor numbers of five per cent compared to the last one in 2012, the organisers have announced.
This year's visitor number was 29,325, compared to 28,001 in 2012. And there were 696 exhibitors this time, compared to 669 two years
Future trends, what comes next?
12th of May 2014There have always been financial bubbles whenever radical innovations have become widespread. As such, the computer will bring in its wake a more healthy working culture and informational cooperation - according to Erik Händeler, German author and future scientist. He writes here for ECJ.
Debt crisis, stability crisis, economic crisis
Women as industry leaders
9th of May 2014In this edition of ECJ we feature a special report on inspirational women in the professional cleaning industry. In it we focus on four women working in different parts of the sector and ask them about their background, their everyday challenges and their ambitions for the future.
The first is Angelica Martinez, who was named the British Cleaning
Tilting vacuum cleaner makes life easier for cleaners
8th of May 2014New from Nilfisk Alto is a wet and dry vacuum cleaner said to prevent aches and pains among cleaners by means of an ergonomic tilting mechanism.
According to senior group product manager Anthony Evans, the VL500 can be emptied with one hand by even the smallest of cleaners.
"It weighs up to 75 kilos but the ergo-tilt mechanism uses the weight of