Michelle Marshall, Chairman of the Jury of the ISSA/INTERCLEAN Innovation Award 2008, announced the winner of the prestigious prize on the opening day: Ultra Clean Ltd. for the product: UltraClean.

The Innovation Award is judged on various criteria, such as originality, impact, practicality, durability, health/ergonomics, environment and profitability. These desirable qualities are certainly to be found in this year’s Overall Winner.

An excerpt of the Jury report on the Innovation Award Winner 2008:
“The judges were truly impressed with the imagination, inventiveness and enterprising spirit shown by the developer of Ultra Clean. It is exciting to see something which has real potential to make its mark on the washroom service market being launched at the show.”

UltraClean is a patented no-touch towel dispenser with an internal self-laundering system. During working hours it operates as an automatic no-touch linen towel dispenser. Then at any pre-programmed time, it provides full laundering services: it soaks and washes in clean hot water then brushes, sanitises and dries the towel.

The Category Winners
Next to the Overall Winner, the jury selected three Category Winners:
• Nilfisk-Advance A/S for the product: AX 651 Multi EDS
• Satino for the product: Satino Towelex
• VERMOP Salmon GmbH for the product: VERMOP Soft Cleaning Schedule 

The ISSA/INTERCLEAN Innovation Award for the most innovative exhibit was presented during ISSA/INTERCLEAN Amsterdam 2008 (6-7-8-9 May). This year’s 73 entries were initially judged on the basis of written submissions provided by exhibitors. This first stage resulted in a shortlist of three nominated products in each category, which were viewed by the entire jury in Amsterdam.