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Trends in Floor Cleaning and Maintenance

It is a proven fact a good looking floor goes a long way in enhancing ambience and helps enhance one’s productivity, be it at home or at work. Over the years, the trends in hard floor cleaning and maintenance have been shifting towards – low cost, prolonged life, ease of maintenance, safety and environmental friendly products.

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Floor Cleaning : Current/Old Industry Procedure:

Floor Dusting:
• Moves dust around
• Selective removal
• Hard to push

Floor Disinfecting
• Mop & bucket
• Cross-contamination
• Heavy and tiring

Floor Finishing
• Mop & bucket
• Heavy and tiring
• Inconsistent results

Future Industry Procedure:

Floor Dusting
• Traps and holds
• Works on all dirt
• Lightweight – easy
• Low drag – easy

Floor Disinfecting
• Solution in handle
• Clean solution
• Lightweight – easy
• Low drag – easy

Floor Finishing
• Backpack system
• Low drag – easy
• Lightweight – easy
• Great results

The basic objective of today’s floor maintenance operation is to,

• Have environmentally preferable cleaning method
• Reduce time and labour costs
• Have consistent performance
• Leave a clean surface post floor maintenance operation, ready for recoating, without big scratches
• Bring improvement on personnel’s health & safety

Non-Woven technology in Floor Pads

Non-woven technology is nothing but sheet or web structures which are bonded together by entangling fibers mechanically, thermally or chemically. This technology makes the floor pad more useful and long lasting in day to day cleaning and maintenance operations. These fibers are not woven or knitted and do not require conversion to yarn. This process eventually produces a distinct class of fiber-based materials with useful characteristics and properties.

A non-woven structure is a flat, flexible, porous sheet structure composed of a predetermined amount and arrangement of fiber-based material held together by friction, adhesion, or fusion..

In a nutshell they are engineered fabrics, fabric made directly from fibers. It is manufactured at high speed and competitive cost.

Using the non-woven technology in the floor pad provides the following advantages.
Non-contaminating – Healthy and hygienic
Non-rusting – Safer and hygienic
Flexible – Easy to use and soft on hand
Spring-like action – No wild scratch marks
Resists loading/re-depositing – Cleaner pad
Conformable – Easy to use and can reach difficult areas
Controlled abrasive action – No wild scratches

Debapratim Dinda
Advanced Engineer-
Building & Commercial
Services Division,3M India.

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