CM/Spotlight: Hard Floor Care Balancing By: Lance Hartmann Clean, Green And Lean New hard floor scrubbers solve conflicting needs with flexibility. Lance Hartmann has spent his career around equipment from payloaders and road pav-ers, to his most recent tenure in the cleaning equipment industry. Initially, he put his engineering degree to work designing assembly lines for Nilfisk-Advance Inc. before moving into product manage-ment, where he was in charge of developing a number of the company’s commercial and industrial products. In 2010, Lance completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and was named man-ager of Nilfisk-Advance’s Americas Product Management Team, responsible for devel-opment of Advance, Clarke, Clarke American Sanders, Kent and U.S. Products. Hartmann has been with Nilfisk-Advance since 2003. T Today’s in-house cleaners and building service contractors (BSC) can feel like they are reeling from one demand to another. They are being held to high standards for cleanli-ness, while also being asked to contribute to envi-ronmental sustainability goals within their facilities — all the while having to keep costs under control. It can seem like an impossible combination — finding the right solution for each cleaning chal-lenge in a facility without increasing equipment costs and labor time. Fortunately, new hard floor scrubbers with flex-ible cleaning modes are available to help cleaning professionals meet every floor cleaning challenge without having to invest in or maintain several pieces of expensive equipment. Manufacturers of automatic scrubbers recognize that flexibility is the key to facility cleaning today. In a typical commercial building, 80 percent or more of hard floors require only light cleaning on a regular basis. Often, these surfaces can be cleaned with a good quality scrubber using only water to release dirt. But, at least occasionally, these same floors require a little more effort — detergent to cut through petroleum-based or other difficult soils or for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Floor Care . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select SUPPLIER SEARCH from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Technology . For high-traffic areas, cleaning professionals can use machines that offer the flexibility to deliver a quick burst of scrubbing power when and where it is needed. 28 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • March 2011 Image courtesy of Nilfisk-Advance Inc.
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