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Sustainability MATTERS

Sustainability MATTERS

Only Advantex® Single-Use Microfiber Mops help support your sustainability initiatives.

The Advantex® Single-use Mop has a significantly lower environmental impact than a reusable laundered mop in every category assessed in the EPA TRACI model. A contribution analysis on the global warming potential of the two indicates that the electrical power and chemistry needed to wash and dry the reusable mop dominates environmental adverse implications.

ADVENTEX® Mop SUPERIOR Sustainability (PDF)

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Reduce your Environmental footprint with Advantex® Mops

Advantex® Mops help support your sustainability initiatives.

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH:
Knowledge is Power

What should you know about Denier & Superior Efficacy?

The skinny on DenierDenier Denier is a unit of measurement used to determine the fiber thickness of individual threads used to create fabrics. Microfiber is a broad term for synthetic fiber finer than one or 1.3 denier thickness, which is 1/100th the diameter of a...

Case study: Superior Efficacy with Advantex® Microfiber

Midwest Area Hospital System (652 beds) IDNTHE CHALLENGE In 2023, a Midwest-area Community Hospital System's HAI rate increased. Knowing the risk of spreading pathogens via the healthcare facility floor throughout the day, the hospital system challenged the EVS...

Case study: Advantex® vs Laundered Mops

Dallas Area Hospital System (434 beds) IDNTHE CHALLENGE In 2023, a hospital system conducted a deep inspection of rooms after patient discharge cleaning and found HAI pathogens, including Clostridium difficile (C. diff), in 44% of cleaned rooms. The hospital system...

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The only single-use mop Constructed of 71% post-consumer recycled materials!

repurposed plastic bottles are used to manufacture a case of Advantex flat mops

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90% Less Electricity

Repeat washing and drying process

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68% Less Chemical Use

Eliminates laundry chemicals and reduces chemicals used for daily cleaning

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57% Less Resources (Fuel)

Resources used and fuel
consumption when transporting

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253 Less Gallons of Water

Natural resource consumption

Less Ozone Depletion icon
84% Less Ozone Depletion

Air pollution produced when transporting during laundering process (20x)

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100% Less Microplastics

Plastic particles in the environment and water

Environmental Life-Cycle Analysis of Single-Use and Reusable Mops

Request full report by Richard Venditti, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor, Department of Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University, Room 1204 Pulp and Paper Labs, Raleigh, NC 27695-8005.
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ADDITIONAL RESEARCH:
Knowledge is Power

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New Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing

New Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Geerpres® is proud to introduce Brian Morabito as Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing. In this role, Morabito will focus on company growth through our distribution partners in all Janitorial/Sanitation verticals.

About Brian Morabito

Morabito has more than two decades of experience working in leadership roles where he has built high-performing sales teams and national accounts. He joins Geerpres® from Novalent, Ltd., where he served as Vice President of Sales. In his new role with Geerpres®, Morabito will focus on building a strong sales team to support our developing national business accounts and expanding the product portfolio to continue exceeding our customers’ expectations.

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“I am genuinely excited to have Brian join our team. He brings significant distribution and manufacturing selling experience and expertise in the healthcare market to Geerpres®. His leadership presence will help continue our tradition of quality products and solutions in all market verticals.”

 

~ Scott Ribbe, Geerpres® President

AHE COVID-19 EVS Training Toolkit

AHE COVID-19 EVS Training Toolkit

The Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE) recently released the COVID-19 EVS Cleaning Essentials Refresher Training Toolkit to help front-line EVS staff combat SARS-CoV-2. If you are a member of AHE, please click on the button below to view information on the following topics.

Training topics include:

  • The Chain of Infection, including Mode of Pathogen Transmission, Preventing Infection, Cause of Infection, Common Significant Pathogens
  • Disinfectants
  • COVID-19 Overview
  • Required PPE
  • Cleaning Protocols, including Isolation Boxes, High Touch Surfaces, Emergency Department Cleaning Protocols
  • Supply Conservation
  • Communication
View EVS Training Toolkit

Analysis: Microfiber Laundered and a Single-Use Mops

Analysis: Microfiber Laundered and a Single-Use Mops

Eight laundered microfiber flat mops and one single-use microfiber flat mop were photographed at 20X’s, 40X’s using a 3D stereo microscope and 1,000X’s using a Scanning Electronic Microscope, SEM.

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Microscopic Microfiber

EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW:

The laundered mops demonstrated significant contamination and microfiber degradation. In some instances, the microfiber in no longer effective since it is shown to be completely melted and containing foreign material. The melted microfiber indicates that the drying process utilized by the laundries is too harsh and irreversibly damaging the microfiber. The process also isn’t able to remove the obvious foreign material in addition to the chemical particulate accumulation.

These photographs support recent findings that the special laundry processes adopted for microfiber are not adequately removing gross soils and chemical build-up that have the potential to harbor microbiological pathogens.

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New single-use microfiber provides the only assurance for a microfiber mop and wipe that can assure the elimination of any gross particulate and chemical accumulation the could come off the substrate and/or result in potential cross-contamination.

Cleaning & Maintenance Management Validates Current Geerpres® Research – Advantex Single-Use Mops

Cleaning & Maintenance Management Validates Current Geerpres® Research – Advantex Single-Use Mops

Geerpres® researchers, Jack McGurk and Dave Harry, contribute their Adventex® Single-use mop findings in the recent CMM article Single-Use Microfiber Mops Usher In Third Wave of Change in Floor Care .

Thomas W. Stewart sparked the first wave of change in floor cleaning when he patented the string mop in 1893. His invention allowed floor cleaners to rise from their hands and knees to a standing position.

The string mop was so successful it became the paradigm for floor care for the next 100 years. Adjunct equipment such as a rolling bucket with mop wringer, a deep sink for emptying the mop bucket, and a custodian’s closet on every facility floor soon followed to assist the new moping process.

The microfiber flat mop ushered in the second wave of change a century later, at the end of the 1990s. The microfiber flat mop was easier to use, utilized 98.6% less water and chemicals, and sped up the cleaning process, as cited in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s paper, “Using Microfiber Mops in Hospitals: Environmental Best Practices for Health Care Facilities.”

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