Vote for Advance Adfinity™ X20R REV™ Automatic Floor Scrubber in ISSA Innovation Award Program

Advance has entered the Adfinity™ X20R REV™ automatic floor scrubber into ISSA’s 2011 Innovation Award Program. The annual competition allows distributors and cleaning industry professionals to vote to determine the industry’s most innovative products and services in five unique categories, including: cleaning agents; equipment; paper and plastics; services, technology and other; and supplies. The Adfinity X20R REV is entered into the “equipment” category. Voting opened on July 15, 2011 and will close on September 30, 2011, with winners announced during the first week of October.

The Advance Adfinity X20R REV automatic floor scrubber is designed to provide the most uniform daily scrubbing performance and deep scrubbing for chemical-free finish removal in a single pass. Featuring patent-pending Random Orbital Scrubbing technology, the Adfinity REV is the industry’s first automatic scrubber to clean floors with distinct, random orbital and rotational motions, using up to 70 percent less cleaning solution and saving up to 90 percent in time and labor costs.

Advance will also be featuring the Adfinity X20R REV at the ISSA/Interclean trade show October 18-21, 2011 in Las Vegas, NV. Trade show attendees can visit booth 1415 in the exhibit hall to see the Adfinity X20R REV, in addition to Advance’s other latest developments. Attendees will also have an opportunity to watch product demonstrations and speak with application experts.

To vote for the Adfinity X20R REV, visit http://www.issa.com/vote.

Flexible Cleaning: Detergent and Water Cleaning

All facilities, regardless of whether it’s a university or grocery store, require hard-floor cleaning machines that are both environmentally preferred and flexible enough to handle a wide variety of cleaning applications. With recent technology advancements, automatic scrubbers with flexible cleaning capabilities are now available for cleaning professionals and facility managers. Today, we will look at these machines’ ability to use multiple types of cleaners and water only.

Ideally, a “green and clean” scrubber enables facilities to use any type of detergent or cleaning fluid—including green-certified cleaners. Machines that are designed to use a proprietary cleaning fluid only or water only are not conducive to the variable cleaning practices used in many buildings today. For example, a facility may choose a neutral cleaner for routine daily cleaning, but prefer to scrub with a stronger detergent for deeper cleaning weekly or monthly. Or a facility might use water-only cleaning interspersed with detergent-cleaning to gain the benefits of each; detergent-based cleaning gets into pores and removes more soil, while the intermittent water-only cleaning washes residual detergent out of surface pores to improve floor appearance. Once detergent is washed out of the pores, the water-only process no longer provides the same cleaning benefit. For porous floors, a good practice may be to alternate cleaning methods—detergent and no detergent—to keep floors looking their best.

Stay tuned for next week’s blog post on automatic floor scrubbers with the ability to change detergents while scrubbing!