CLEANING & MAINTENANCE | KÄRCHER AGE-DEFYING CLEANING
Here, Kärcher – now the world’s largest cleaning equipment manufacturer – explains how constant innovation is what keeps their ideas young.
If your assets are looking good for their age, chances are you’ve got your cleaning regime to thank. This year Kärcher is celebrating 80 years of helping customers protect their assets, making them appear younger and less time-worn than their true age.
Whether your surfaces need to be hygienically clean in a restaurant or hospital, or a workshop floor needs oily residue and contaminant removing, it will cost you more in time and expenditure to use the traditional and still widespread practice of strong chemicals and labour-intensive methods like manual scrubbing and scraping. As far back as the 1950s Alfred Kärcher was aware that steam dissolved sticky residue on a distillery floor and put that knowledge to good use developing the first hot water pressure washer. So ahead of its time was this innovation that this core technology still serves as the basis for heating the units today.
Over the intervening years the pressure for businesses to achieve more with less has been omnipresent. Numerous Kärcher innovations and adaptions have further fortified their renowned design, build quality and user friendliness to ensure modern machines more than keep pace. For example today’s hot water pressure washers heat water to around 155°C allowing working pressure and detergent quantity to be reduced while saving up to 35% on cleaning time – with significantly better results.
Constant innovation means today’s product range is vast - from super lightweight dry vacuum cleaners to sophisticated yet rugged municipal vehicles - each providing more hygiene, more safety and more economy than ever before. With an entirely new Step-On machine class for scrubber driers and vacuum cleaners, including the CV60/2 RS - winner of the Best Carpet Cleaning Product award at the 2015 Cleaning Show Innovation Awards – Kärcher has delivered game changing performance increases.
“For over 80 years, we have been focused on creating efficient, economic and sustainable cleaning solutions for professionals across a range of industries. We understand the immense pressures businesses face when it comes to cleaning and this insight is what drives our product development forward,” said Craig McKay, Sales & Marketing Director, Kärcher Professional.
Using leading-edge cleaning technology to conserve resources helps companies to have a clean environmental conscience – and positions them to be more attractive to ethically- minded businesses and consumers alike. As such Kärcher has pioneered eco!efficiency, a mode which enables machines to function with optimal efficiency, saving energy, water and cleaning agent. Featured in machines including hot water
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pressure washers, scrubber driers, vacuums and its newest product line, the SGV 8/5 self-cleaning steam generating vac, eco!efficiency not only lowers power consumption and reduces operating costs, but at the same time decreases operating noise levels – making these machines ideal for use in noise-sensitive areas such as care facilities, canteens and hotels.
The UK Government calculates that using natural resources more efficiently could save UK businesses around £23 billion a year as well as bring more resilience to climate change and the rising prices of commodities. To help encourage more efficient use of resources in business, the government’s Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) scheme lets businesses claim a 100% first-year capital allowance on efficiency- approved plant and machinery, among them Kärcher steam cleaners, the new Steam Generating Vac (SGV) and Scrubber Driers.
Efficient cleaning solutions achieve cheaper life-cycle costs through reduced bills, government taxback schemes, less downtime and improved staff productivity.
www.karcher.co.uk
eco!efficiency CLEANING & MAINTENANCE : TOMORROW’S FM YEARBOOK 2015/16
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