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The cleaning industry is flooded with thousands of products. In order for a building service contractor to know which vacuum, disinfectant, mop or other product to purchase, he or she can either take a stab in the dark, or use insight from a trusted distributor.
Jan/san distributors have direct access to manufacturers and they are careful in which suppliers they work with. The products they sell and recommend to customers work and work well — because they have to. If distributors offer poor products, they won’t be in business for long.
Every year, Contracting Profits’ sister publication Sanitary Maintenance awards 40 products as the best in the industry. To qualify for the award, a product had to run in either a 2017 issue of Sanitary Maintenance magazine or on CleanLink.com. To determine the winners, ballots were emailed to Sanitary Maintenance subscribers earlier this year.
These winners are chosen by distributors for a variety of reasons: best selling, most preferred, most recommended, most innovative, etc. If building service contractors currently aren’t using these products, they should talk to their distributors about them. It may be worth making a change.
The 2018 Distributor Choice Award winning products are:
Easy Trap Duster by 3M Commercial Solutions Division
Floor Maintenance Pads by ACS Cleaning Products Group
SC2000 Micro-Rider by Advance
Full Cycle Floor Pads by Americo Manufacturing Co. Inc.
Banana Cone 36inH by Banana Products, LLC
Fitness Wipe by Berk International LLC
Crete Rx by Betco Corp.
Tuff Job DRC by Cascades PRO
CleanWalls 3-in-1 Tool by Chomp Solutions
CleanCore 3.0 Fill Station by CleanCore Technologies
Clorox Total 360 System by Clorox Professional Products Company
Safewalk by Crown Matting Technologies
Deb InstantFOAM Complete by Deb Group
MoonBeam 3 by Diversey
NexSys Absorbed Glass Mat (AGM) Batteries by EnerSys
Tork Stainless Washroom Upgrade Solutions by Essity Professional Hygiene North America LLC
Linen Hamper by Geerpres Inc.
PURELL Surface Disinfecting and Sanitizing Sprays by GOJO Industries Inc.
enMotion Flex Paper Towel System by GP PRO
Gator Compact Janitorial Cart by Impact Products LLC
CT80 by IPC Eagle
PS 4/7 Bp Mister by Karcher North America
Sno-Plow by Morgro
Mold & Mildew Stain Remover by Nilodor Inc.
ProBlade Floor Tool by ProTeam Inc.
Slim Jim Step-On by Rubbermaid Commercial Products
QuietClean HEPA BackPack SC535A by Sanitaire
Chlorinated Disinfecting Tablets by SOP Green Klean
CompuClean Custodial Management Software Upgrade by Spartan Chemical Co. Inc.
DoodleScrub by Square Scrub
Concept "915" by Stearns Packaging Corp.
IRIS Asset Manager by Tennant Company
Anchor Safe by The Andersen Company
Sonic Scrub by The Malish Corporation
HydroLink by Trojan Battery Co.
Hoover Commercial Hushtone 6Q Cordless Backpack Vacuum by TTI Floor Care
Stingray by Unger Enterprises
Pumie by United States Pumice Co.
Splash Hog by WizKid Products
BBL Line by Zephyr Manufacturing Co. Inc.