The Greener Clean: Current Trends in Industrial Floor Scrubber Technology

This article was originally published by Industrial Utility Vehicle & Mobile Equipment Magazine

With today's emphasis on sustainability and LEED certifications, floor cleaning equipment is evolving to adapt to current industry trends. Traditional mop and bucket cleaning is being replaced with efficient, versatile scrubbing machines to satisfy sustainability goals. Floors scrubbers can now perform more functions while utilizing fewer resources. Operating with less water and detergent, as well as requiring less labor and machines to complete tough cleaning challenges, floor cleaning equipment can now provide superior cleaning results without additional costs.

By understanding what 'green cleaning' encompasses and knowing available floor scrubbing capabilities that promote these strategies, facility managers must select cleaning equipment that meets their industrial requirements while still satisfying their green initiatives.

Read the full article here to learn more sustainable cleaning and green capabilities of industrial floor scrubbers.

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!