around the industry People recipient of UMF Corporation’s first annual Hygiene Specialist Excellence Award. Altman was nominated by her Environmental Services Manager Eula Needham and was honored for her outstand-ing skills and efforts to maintain the hospital’s hygiene standards to help prevent the spread of hospital-associated infections (HAI). Glenn Krewson — measured the cleaning performance of ec-H2O relative to plain tap water using Hucker’s soil, an industry-recognized soil containing no petroleum products that is used to test the performance of surface cleaners. CleanMaster Is Now U.S. Products U.S. Products has announced that CleanMaster equipment will now be mar-keted under the U.S. Products brand name. Combining the two companies under one name will help strengthen the U.S. Products brand, bolster manufacturing capabilities, improve distribution of both product lines and create new marketing opportunities for each company. Aztec Welcomes Regional Sales Manager Aztec Products Inc. welcomes Glenn Krewson as the new Southeast regional sales manager. Krewson, who is dedicated to resolving the issues that contractors and distributors face daily, has experience in growing sales regions and increasing market penetration for both small and Fortune 100 companies. Stone receives his award ProTeam Delivers 2010 Representative Awards ProTeam Inc. is pleased to name The RTF Group Inc. as the recipient of the 2010 Larry Shideler Manufacturers Representative Group of the Year award and Jeffrey Stone of Access Partners as the winner of the 2010 Mark Reimers Sales Representative of the Year award. The Larry Shideler Manufacturers Representative Group of the Year award, named for ProTeam’s founder, celebrates innovation and reach in the cleaning industry, while the Mark Reimers Sales Representative of the Year is an award named after the late Mark Reimers — the original developer and longtime leader of ProTeam’s commercial sales organization. A Familiar Face Returns To Kaivac Bob Robinson, Jr. has resumed responsi-bilities as vice president of business devel-opment at Kaivac Inc. after serving as direc-tor of regional business development since 2009 for Coverall Health-Based Cleaning System. Robinson, Jr. will be responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities, strategies and partnerships as well as looking into alternative industries, channels and ventures that can help foster Kaivac’s future growth. Fish Window Cleaning executives show excitement over the news Fish Window Cleaning Recognized Fish Window Cleaning has been ranked number 30 among the top 50 large fran-chise systems recognized in Franchise Business Review’s 2011 Franchisee Satisfaction Awards. In addition to being named a top large franchise system, Fish also was listed as a top franchise in the services category, as well as one of the 2011 top low-cost fran-chises requiring an average investment of less than $100,000. News Electrolyzed Water Controversy Continues Nilfisk-Advance Inc. has released a third set of independent test results related to Tennant Company’s electrically converted water (ec-H2O) technology that showed no performance difference between cleaning with a Tennant scrubber using ec-H2O and the same scrubber using only plain tap water. The tests — results of which can be viewed here: www.EcoFlexSystem.com/TestResults Altman proudly accepts her award Hygiene Specialist Excellence Award Granted Janet Altman , a hygiene specialist at Benewah Community Hospital, is the IEHA And HFI Announce Partnership The International Executive Housekeepers Association (IEHA) and the Healthy Facilities Institute (HFI) have announced 8 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • May 2011
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