Monthly Archives: March 2023

UMF Adds Regional Sales Manager

By |2024-03-11T15:50:56-05:00March 29, 2023|

UMF Corp. has appointed Brian Spada regional sales manager for health care markets. Spada is an experienced sales professional with a focus on infection prevention. He joins UMF from EvaClean, where he served as area vice president for the company’s Mid-Atlantic/Southeast region. Spada has also worked for such companies as Interactive Metronome and Steris, a ...

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Cintas Increases 3rd-Quarter Revenue Rise 11%

By |2024-03-11T15:50:55-05:00March 29, 2023|

Cintas Corp. has reported a fiscal third-quarter revenue of US$2.19 billion, a 11.7% increase from last year’s revenue of $1.96 billion in the same time period. Cintas posted an operating income of $446.8 million compared to $407.6 million in last year’s third quarter, while its net income was $325.8 million, up from $315.4 million in in 2022. ...

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Sofidel Reveals Its Sustainable Hygiene Hero

By |2024-03-11T15:50:54-05:00March 29, 2023|

Dorota Pradziad-Hyc has been named the winner of Sofidel America Corp.’s Sustainable Hygiene Heroes Award. Sofidel’s awards program honors cleaning professionals who go above and beyond to provide clean and safe facilities, while implementing sustainable cleaning practices. A panel of judges reviewed nominations and selected the winner and finalists based on the individual’s commitment to ...

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OpenWorks Launches New Customer Portal

By |2024-03-11T15:50:54-05:00March 29, 2023|

OpenWorks recently released OpenWorks Portal, a digital hub where communication occurs in real time among OpenWorks, its customers, and supporting service providers. The new portal provides users with enhanced interaction and visibility and delivers operational oversight, freeing up service providers to focus on cleaning tasks. OpenWorks predicts the service will further enhance customer retention rates. “The ...

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ARCSI Launches House Cleaning Process and Procedure Training Program

By |2024-03-11T15:50:52-05:00March 29, 2023|

The Association of Residential Cleaning Services International (ARCSI), a Division of ISSA, has launched its new House Cleaning Process & Procedure Training program. Designed by cleaning industry expert Sharon Tinberg, the program is a step-by-step online training system that teaches residential cleaners what to clean, in what order, and how to clean various areas of ...

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ISSA & New York County Sheriff’s Office Launch Janitorial Training Program

By |2024-03-11T15:50:53-05:00March 28, 2023|

At a press conference yesterday, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, together with ISSA’s Cleaning Management Institute (CMI), announced the launch of a new training and certification program for individuals incarcerated within the New York county. The program—the first of its kind in New York—is part of a statewide initiative developed by the New York State ...

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Tennant Announces Third Round of Finalists in Custodians Are Key Contest

By |2024-03-11T15:50:53-05:00March 28, 2023|

Tennant Co. has announced the third round of three finalists for its fourth-annual Custodians Are Key recognition program. First launched in September 2019, the annual program recognizes the work K–12 custodians are doing in educational facilities across the United States. Parents, teachers, and school administrators were invited to nominate custodians for their efforts to provide students with a ...

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ICE Cobotics Wins Award for Artificial Intelligence

By |2024-03-11T15:50:52-05:00March 28, 2023|

ICE Cobotics has been named a recipient of The Business Intelligence Group’s 2023 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award. Every year, the awards program recognizes organizations, products, and people for developing artificial intelligence and successfully applying it to solve real world problems. ICE Cobotics’ Cobi 18 autonomous floor scrubber was one of 65 products honored by The ...

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Join Cleaning for a Reason to Scrub Out Cancer this April

By |2024-03-11T15:50:47-05:00March 28, 2023|

Cleaning for a Reason®, an ISSA Charities™ signature program that provides clean homes for cancer patients, is extending Cleaning for a Reason Week throughout the entire month of April. During the month, Cleaning for a Reason, its residential cleaning partners, sponsors, and the cleaning industry community will come together to build awareness of the charity’s ...

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Ecolab Invests $10M in WaterEquity Fund

By |2024-03-11T15:50:51-05:00March 27, 2023|

Ecolab Inc. has announced a US$10 million investment in the WaterEquity Global Access Fund IV. The fund is overseen by WaterEquity, an impact investment asset manager co-founded by actor Matt Damon, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The $140 million WaterEquity Fund aims to provide safe drinking water to more than five million people worldwide. Other contributors to the fund ...

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