Monthly Archives: May 2023

WOW! BMS Adds Client Relations Director

By |2024-03-11T15:51:46-05:00May 3, 2023|

WOW! Building Maintenance Solutions (BMS) has appointed Angela Kubisky director of client relations and business development. Kubisky has more than three decades of business development experience. She joins WOW! BMS from consultancy firm Amplified Business Connections, where she was a founder and principal. In her new role, Kubisky will be responsible for creating growth-generating objectives ...

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ISSA Members Recognized for Diversity Efforts

By |2024-03-11T15:51:46-05:00May 3, 2023|

Five ISSA-member companies have been named to DiversityInc magazine’s 22nd annual list of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity. To develop the 2023 index, DiversityInc assessed hundreds of companies worldwide on four key areas of diversity management: workforce breakdown and recruitment, talent development, leadership accountability, and supplier diversity. The ISSA-member companies included in DiversityInc’s 2023 ...

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Ecolab Reports 9% Increase in 1st-Quarter Sales

By |2024-03-11T15:51:45-05:00May 3, 2023|

Ecolab Inc. has reported first-quarter net sales of US$3.57 billion, an increase of 9% from $3.26 billion a year ago. Ecolab’s first-quarter operating income increased to $351.6 million, up from $254.5 million in the same quarter a year earlier. Sales in the company’s global institutional and specialty division jumped 14% to $1.12 billion, while its global ...

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Aramsco Acquires Transafe

By |2024-03-11T15:51:45-05:00May 2, 2023|

Aramsco  has purchased Lawrenceville, Georgia-based distributor Transafe. Aramsco’s acquisition of Transafe expands the company’s presence in the traffic control, safety, and pavement market. Transafe distributes traffic safety supplies, pavement marking materials, traffic control products, and signs to government agencies and specialty contractors. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Transafe and Aramsco share a ...

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BradyIFS Expands Presence in Florida

By |2024-03-11T15:51:44-05:00May 2, 2023|

BradyIFS has purchased Southern Janitor Supply Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Family owned and operated Southern Janitor was founded in 1959 by Bill Pitten Sr. His son Bill Jr. took over leadership as president in 1993. Today the company is led by the team of Bill Jr., his brother Fred, sister Lori, and brother-in-law Michael. BradyIFS’ purchase ...

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Morcon Partners With EK Lay

By |2024-03-11T15:51:44-05:00May 2, 2023|

Morcon Tissue formed a strategic partnership with sales and marketing organization E.K. Lay Co. Inc. Per the terms of the agreement, Philadelphia-based E.K. Lay will represent Morcon’s full product line in the Eastern United States. “The experience and principles of E.K. Lay will bring an addition of knowledge, expertise, and motivation to the Morcon team,” said ...

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Michigan and Colorado Revise Their VOC Regulations

By |2024-01-05T22:23:29-06:00May 2, 2023|

State VOC regulations are in a constant state of flux as demonstrated by Michigan and Colorado that both recently revised their Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) regulations that will impact the formulations of numerous household and commercial cleaning products.  Colorado.  On January 25, 2023, Colorado published its revised VOC regulations that set lower VOC limits for ...

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Don’t Miss Tomorrow’s FREE Carpet Care Webinar

By |2024-03-11T15:51:44-05:00May 1, 2023|

According to CMM’s 2023 In-House/Facility Management Benchmarking Survey Report, carpeted surfaces were listed as the No. 2 concern (after restrooms) for in-house staff and contractors who clean facilities. Don’t let carpeted surfaces crimp your crews’ cleanliness. Attend CMM’s upcoming complimentary webinar, Crack the Code on Carpet Care: Creating a Program That Solves Your Toughest Carpet Cleaning Challenges, ...

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Dow Honored for Supplier Engagement on Climate Change

By |2024-03-11T15:51:43-05:00May 1, 2023|

Dow has been named a 2022 Supplier Engagement Leader by the global nonprofit environmental organization CDP. The CDP’s designation reflects Dow’s efforts in 2022 to reduce emissions of what is referred to as Scope 3 (which includes purchased goods and services, purchased transportation, and waste from operations) in the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). This marks the ...

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