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Summer School for Hard Floors

Learn how to use the summer break to your floors’ advantage

Currently Viewing May/June 2022
Robots, AMRs
Brant Insero & Adam Camhi

Integrating Robots into Workloading

Technology and Trends

Prepare your staff for automation to ensure a successful transition

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mopping, cleaning floor, shiny flooring
Dave Darche

Tips for Maintaining Resilient Flooring

Hard Floors

Proper care of your flooring will preserve its shine and durability. Follow these tips to protect your facility's flooring investment.

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Monolithic flooring
Dave Darche

Redefining Monolithic Flooring

Hard Floors

Smooth monolithic flooring surfaces reduce the risk of bacteria growth or germ contamination that can occur in floors with joints or seams. Their durability also makes this type of flooring resistant to harmful chemicals. 

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Slips, Trips, and Falls STFs
Mike Sawchuk

Q&A: Slips, Trips, and Falls

Hard Floors

How to protect facility occupants and visitors from harmful and expensive falls

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Hard Floors
Amy W. Richardson

Summer School for Hard Floors

Hard Floors

Learn how to use the summer break to your floors’ advantage.

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Departments

Cleaning by day
Tim Poskin

Cleaning by Day

Facility Management

If you desire a better facility image with both appearance and health in mind, it may be time to consider scheduling daytime cleaning services or employing a day porter.

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Ideal Client Size
Doug Flaig

What’s Your Ideal Client Size?

Business and Management

Learn the pros and cons of working with a few large clients for higher fees versus numerous small clients for smaller fees.

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Columns

Fabray Nicholas
Kathleen Misovic

Workers With Different Abilities Share Their Strengths Through Cleaning

Training

Gain insights from custodian Fabray “Nick” Nicholas on how training from Ada S. McKinley Community Services helped him advance his career and what he enjoys most about his job.

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Green Cleaning
Stephen P. Ashkin

The Cleaning Industry’s Path from Green Cleaning to Sustainability

Business and Management

As green cleaning began to change the landscape of the cleaning industry 30 years ago, today sustainability is poised to be the “disruptor” of our industry.

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Sponsored Content

Tennant Robotic Floor Scrubbers
Sponsored by Tennant Co.

How Robotic Floor Scrubbers Help Solve Labor Shortages

Products

The T16AMR and other Tennant solutions can increase labor efficiency for cleaning teams and achieve a better, deeper clean.

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Malish
Sponsored by Malish

Diamond Devil™ Shine Tool: North Rockland Central School District

Products

North Rockland High School had restored their terrazzo floors and began using the Diamond Devil™ Shine Tool to maintain their luster, with big advantages.

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Pacific Floorcare
Sponsored by Pacific Floorcare

Simple Floor Care Systems: Pacific’s Proven Process

Products

PAC’s unique bio-based chemicals lift and suspend soils, leaving microscopic particles that fill scratches in the floor to create a durable, polished and protected surface.

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M+A Matting
Sponsored by M+A Matting

Protect Your Floors, People, and Wallet With M+A Matting

Products

Our 3-mat entrance system consists of an outdoor scraper mat (SuperScrape Plus®), indoor scraper/wiper mat (WaterHog®), and wiper mat (ColorStar®).

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Bona Sunnyside School District
Sponsored by Bona US

Creating a Beautiful, Durable Floor: Sunnyside School District

Products

The Bona Commercial System Resilient Floor Solution offered a cost savings of $40,000 compared to a standard new floor installation process. 

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Kaivac AutoVac Stretch
Sponsored by Kaivac

AutoVac Stretch at Aurora Public Schools: Making the Complicated Simple

Products

Cleaning floors using the Kaivac AutoVac Stretch™ instead of an auto scrubber is the trend in a growing number of Aurora Public Schools primary schools.

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Spartan Floor Cleaner
Sponsored by Spartan Chemical Company

Find Your Floor Care Personality!

Products

Answer the following questions based on the floor care program you followed prior to the pandemic.

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ACS
Sponsored by ACS Industries Inc.

Your Hard Floor Care and Janitorial Specialists

Products

Since ACS introduced the metal sponge in 1939, we have expanded into non-woven hand pads, sponges, mops, brooms, brushes and finally floor pads in the early 2000s. Now with the acquisitions of ETC and Treleoni® in 2017, the floor pad offering with ACS today is second to none.

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