HEALTHCARE & HOSPITAL HYGIENE
Flat Packed Floorcare
In Sweden, the home of IKEA, ABBA and Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s ego, a change is happening. The country has built a reputation in innovation over the years, and thanks to a new, slimline floor cleaning machine, this is moving into the cleaning industry as well.
The Qleeno Story The idea of the Qleeno machine was born back in 2005, when the Swedish company of the same name first acquired the patents. The machine’s low design (at its highest it reaches just 20cm off the ground), allowing it to work in all directions and easily clean under furniture such as hospital beds with minimal disruption, makes it completely different to most scrubber dryers on the market now, and it is already beginning to make waves in the healthcare sector here.
Due to its design, the Qleeno machine can scrub and dry in a full 360° radius, meaning that it’s possible to run the machine under a bed in one clean sweep.
Only a year after the initial patent was bought, the Qleeno machine picked up the Innovation Award in the Cleaning Machines category at the 2006 ISSA/Interclean show in Amsterdam. And in an attempt to broaden the concept, a range of four different models was developed with Italian manufacturers Santoemma.
One which was the Qleeno Train, which was created following a project with ISS in Stockholm that aimed
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In a healthcare environment, cleanliness is vital, but it is also important that this is achieved whilst causing minimal disruption to patients’ lives. We hear from Sweden-based Qleeno, who tell us how their innovative cleaning machines can easily slot in to a hospital cleaners arsenal.
to solve their problem of cleaning trains. They felt that using separate scrubbers and vacuum cleaners to clean and dry the floors in each carriage was time consuming and labour intensive work. There were no machines available that could carry out the work to a satisfactory standard, especially when it came to reaching underneath and in between the seats. And so the Qleeno Train was born, and it is now being used in a number of cleaning depots throughout Europe.
Fast forward to 2012, and both the Db Bahn in Germany and Sodexo in Sweden were encountering problems when it came to cleaning double- decker trains. While the Qleeno Train was good for smaller, commuter trains, it was too heavy to lift onto larger trains or carry up stairs. It is here that the Qleeno Mini, a lower, smaller, more lightweight machine was created. The new machine needed to have all of the heavy-duty cleaning power of the Qleeno Train, despite weighing no more than 20kg.
After some tinkering by Qleeno’s team of engineers, it was decided that a redesign was in order. In shrinking all of the parts, and moving them into a flat engine, they were able to create a machine that was just 19.5kg in weight, with 15kg of this centred on top of the brush. During the development of the new-look machine, prototypes were in use at the ISS cleaning depot in Gothenburg, not far from Qleeno’s headquarters, which they feel helped
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