Shop 'til you drop on a floor without a spot
April 1st 2009 Hako Machines provides flawless floorcare to the shopping centre market with new
machines being used at Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield
The Meadowhall Shopping Centre
in Sheffield is pne of the UK's top
leisure destinations, attracting
over 25 million visitors each year. Hako
says it's not just its machines that
secured the relationship with
Meadowhall, but the synergy between
the two companies when it comes to
the environment.
The environment is high on
Meadowhall's agenda. It has won
numerous awards for its environmental
initiatives. It also holds the ISO 14001
Environmental Management Standard and British Safety Council 5
Star Environment Audit accreditations. Equally Hako claims to be the
only European cleaning machine manufacturer to gain the EMAS
accreditation – the increasingly influential Environmental
Management and Audit Scheme – because of the methods it uses in
the design and production of its machines.
"As a responsible organisation we are always reviewing our impact
on the environment and welcome new more efficient ways of
working," says David Noakes, cleaning manager at Meadowhall
Shopping Centre.
The machines selected by Meadowhall
have additional energy and water saving
benefits as well as being designed and
manufactured with fewer components –
most of which are recyclable.The
combination of machines includes the
new B45 and B90 pedestrian scrubber
dryers and the B910 ride on scrubber
dryer with a pre-sweeping function for an
all-in-one cleaning solution.The machines
allow maximum cleaning efficiency for
Meadowhall and offer the solution for
cleaning the 1,505,000ft2 site – from the
more restricted areas – to the larger areas of the mall.
The machines have a made-to-measure dosage and filling system.
Speed dependent control of water and the Hako Aqua Control
system, ensure accurate dosage and preventing wastage, saving up to
50% of water and detergent when cleaning surfaces.The built-in
memory allows the operational values to be activated at the touch of
a single button.Water is retained in the perimeter of the brushes,
reducing the dosage even further, as well as reducing the need for
filling and increasing the
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