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AWARDS 2015 TOMORROW’S CLEANING


Smart Laundry Capsule Battelle


Battelle scientists have invented a new product that will allow consumers to effectively use bleach when they wash clothes in cold water. The patented Battelle Smart Laundry Capsule will save money, help conserve energy and is environmentally friendly.


The drivers behind the development of the capsule are the consumer’s desire to wash clothes in cold water – saving energy and money – and today’s wash machines that are designed for colder water loads. But cold water washing doesn’t get clothes as clean and fresh as hot water.


That’s because bleach doesn’t work well in cold water without an activator. Battelle’s new technology comes from its encapsulation program that designs products based on specifi c applications. Encapsulation allows for shelf-stable formulations using ingredients that are normally incompatible. Battelle’s work keeps one ingredient safely enclosed in a polymer capsule that can be designed to respond to a variety of different release triggers, like pH, temperature, pressure or dilution.


The Smart Laundry Capsule combines bleach and activator together, so when it’s thrown in the wash water with laundry detergent, they all mix to produce a highly effective cleaning environment, triggered by the water.


SpaceVac SpaceVac Technologies Ltd


A new generation of high reach gutter cleaning equipment has been launched after fi ve years of development by Spacevac Technologies Ltd.


Operated from ground level, the new system has four major features. It removes operational guesswork as it comes with a close circuit TV camera on the cleaning head; at four stories (16 metres), it reaches higher than any other product; it has greater suction power and will safely remove an engineering brick from a gutter; and its carbon fi bre tubes make it much lighter than any other product of its kind. Unlike other high reach gutter cleaners, the Spacevac can be assembled on the ground by one person – due to heavy tubes others have to be assembled in the vertical position by two operators.


The Spacevac is powered by a Nilfi sk Altro vacuum and the poles have a new locking system that ensures no reduction in diameter at the joins, thus eliminating tube blockages.


In addition to the many health and safety benefi ts and the elimination of costly scaffolds or cherry pickers, Spacevac is economical on assembly time,


taking just three minutes. The


high powered vacuum also ensures that gutters are cleaned faster and more effi ciently with less operator time.


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