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R2-D2 look-alike helps clean hospital rooms of superbugs
13th of February 2013
A robot claimed to have a passing resemblance to the R2-D2 character from the Star Wars films is taking on hospital superbugs in the US and Canada.
The Xenex Robot System emits short blasts of high-powered ultraviolet light which is said to be able to eradicate lethal pathogens from healthcare surfaces and environments including hospital beds,
Exhibitions - a barometer of the economic outlook
12th of February 2013
In the exhibition industry there is an old wisdom that says that an exhibition always reflects the economic state of the industry. Writing his latest blog for ECJ, Rob den Hertog - project manager for ISSA/INTERCLEAN - asks if this is true.
Wheelie cleaners speed up rubbish collection
12th of February 2013
A Chinese hospital has given a new meaning to the idea of the wheelie bin by fitting cleaners employed to empty bins with rollerskates to speed up the rubbish collection.
Park Fang, manager at the Huaxi Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan province of south-west China said he had been forced to cut the number of cleaners because of cost and also because
Buzil-Werk's Wagner retires
11th of February 2013
Managing director of German cleaning chemical manufacturer Buzil-Werk, Reinhard Wagner, has retired after 17 years in the job.
He has passed on responsibility for the company to daughter Isabell Janoth and the appointed managing director Klaus Karl, who have both been part of the executive management team since 2010.
Buzil-Werk also has a new
REACH review calls for small business fee cut
8th of February 2013
The European Commission's review of the REACH chemical regulation earlier this week has called for a cut in charges to small businesses.
Adopted in 2006 the REACH regulation is the largest ever chemical control programme and requires chemical manufacturers to register 30,000 out of the 100,000 or so substances currently on the market and
Copper exerts 'halo' antimicrobial effect
6th of February 2013
Results from a clinical trial of antimicrobial copper touch surfaces in a neonatal intensive care unit at a Greek hospital have shown that, in addition to contamination being 90 per cent lower on the copper surfaces, they also exert a halo effect whereby non-copper surfaces up to 50 cm away
exhibited a reduction in contamination of more than
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