around the industry People Spartan announces regional manager appointment Jason Paschall has been promoted to the position of regional manager for Spartan Chemical Company’s Oklahoma region. Paschall al supply is no stranger to the janitori-industry, having extensive expe-rience in the laundry, warewashing and Paschall Kaivac announces new U.S. sales director Tim Wolf has been promoted to U.S. sales director for Kaivac Inc. Wolf has been with Kaivac for nearly three years. A 2004 graduate of Purdue University, his first duties with Kaivac were to oversee manu-facturer’s representa-tives as well as distrib-utor sales and market-Wolf Kaeser announces ENERGY STAR partnership Kaeser Compressors Protection proudly Agency’s announces its recent partnership with the Environmental ENERGY STAR program. This partnership reflects Kaeser’s belief in providing customers with the highest quality, most efficient compressed air products and optimized, energy-saving systems. With the help of ENERGY STAR, Americans saved about $16 billion on their 2007 energy bills while reducing the green-house gas emissions equivalent to that of 27 million vehicles. Kaeser intends to leverage its partner-ship with ENERGY STAR to communicate the importance of energy management to the industrial marketplace — and increase the national statistics for energy savings in the coming years. housekeeping arenas. ing in three key Midwestern states. As U.S. sales director, Wolf’s responsibil-ities will essentially expand to include the entire U.S. Core Products Company Inc. hires sales manager Rich Saskiewicz has been promoted to the position of North American sales manager for Core Products. Saskiewicz joined Core Products as a consultant in August 2006. He assumed the role of regional account manager in August 2007. With more than 25 years of extensive field sales, research, marketing and formu-lation experience in the development of acrylic polymers for floor polishes and sealers, Saskiewicz has already proven to be a great asset. Stephen Mohr joins Unisource Worldwide Stephen Mohr has been appointed as Unisource’s director of packaging and mar-keting and will direct marketing activities, build brand awareness and develop busi-ness opportunities in the packaging area. With more than 25 years of experience in professional marketing roles, Mohr’s creative abilities have led to the intro-duction of many new products in the marketplace. IFMA chapter donates $25,000 to Habitat for Humanity The Delaware Chapter of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) presented a check for $25,000 to Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County at its holiday luncheon last month. The funds were proceeds from the WAXIE marketing manager elected president of USGBC-San Diego chapter The U.S. Green Building Council-San Diego chapter has named their executive committee for the upcoming year and Keith Schneringer , marketing manager for WAXIE Sanitary Supply, has been re-elected the president of the chapter for 2009. Schneringer has served on the Board of Directors for the chapter since 2005, and has been instrumental in helping to grow interest in the chapter and provide green building education to San Diego County. Schneringer has coordinated the LEED Technical Review Workshops in San Diego since 2006, and served as chapter secretary in 2007 and chapter president in 2008. News JohnsonDiversey earns Business Achievement Award The Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) has recognized JohnsonDiversey’s ProSpeed ® floor-finishing system with an award for waste management and pollu-tion control. The EBJ has chosen ProSpeed to receive a technical merit award for its reduced water use and floor finish savings as well as its reduced emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). During its first 10 weeks of deployment, ProSpeed saved customers an estimated 71,400 gallons of water and 8,200 gallons of floor finish. Delaware Chapter’s 17th annual golf tour-nament, held at Brandywine Country Club in Wilmington. The Delaware Chapter has supported the local Habitat for Humanity through proceeds from its annual golf outing since 1995. CM News and People items in “Around the Industry” initially appeared in CM e-News Daily™, a daily e-mail news service for the cleaning and maintenance industry. To have your News and/or People item con-sidered for CM e-News Daily and “Around the Industry,” please e-mail your release to Associate Editor Aaron Baunee at [email protected]. To sign up for the free CM e-News Daily e-mail, log on to www.cm-enews.com. 10 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • March 2009