30+ Years of Innovation—We’ve Only Just Begun

ProTeam backpack vacuums

ISSA SHOW NORTH AMERICA EXHIBITOR BOOTH 2955

ProTeam has been about innovation since before we were ProTeam. Nearly 40 years ago, ProTeam’s founder, Larry Shideler, knew there was a better way to vacuum. Through his ingenuity, he created the modern-day lightweight backpack vacuum in 1983. Using this revolutionary invention, people experienced increases in productivity because the backpack vacuum was more comfortable to use and more effective than uprights. 

While the first backpack vacuum was groundbreaking for its time, we have come a long way in comfort and technology. We started production of the QuarterVac® in 1987, and by 1990 we had created an optimal filtration system with four levels of filtration, providing a new level of clean. In 2003, we released the first battery-powered backpack vacuum, and in 2012, years of innovation and feedback led to the launch of the Super Coach Pro®—a lighter, more efficient, and more powerful backpack vacuum.

In 2015, new advances in battery technology helped in the launch of the cordless GoFree® Flex Pro. In 2018, we made improvements to our harness giving users increased comfort, breathability, and maneuverability when using backpack vacuums. And in 2020, we launched the GoFree Flex Pro II with two battery options for added versatility.

Commitment to Improvement

For more than three decades, we’ve been about innovation—finding better ways to clean, increasing productivity, reducing cost of ownership, and offering increased comfort to a taxing job. Our commitment to the cleaning trade is that we will never stop looking for ways to improve our industry-leading vacuums. 

Each generation of ProTeam products has been the result of one mission—to build a better vacuum. And we have done so each time. Each step we take brings us closer to a backpack vacuum that is lighter, more efficient, more ergonomically sound, and more versatile than ever before. Our desire to provide unmatched comfort, cleaning, and efficiency means we’ve only just begun.

At ProTeam, we continue to embrace our history of innovation in the pursuit of better—and we have done it again. We have created the next step in vacuum technology with our newest generation of ProTeam backpack vacuums—the perfect marriage of comfort and productivity. 

But don’t take our word for it; come see for yourself at ISSA Show North America, Booth 2955.

www.proteam.emerson.com

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Posted On September 30, 2021
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