Floor Cleaning at a Refrigerated Food Distribution Warehouse
A3 Machines recently received a call from a distribution warehouse in Telford who distribute refrigerated food for a well-known supermarket. Besides needing to keep the floor of the distribution center clean, they also had an issue with "puddles" of water forming in the pedestrian walkways caused by condensation from the cooling fans dripping down the metal roof supports onto the floor. Understanding the Floor Cleaning Requirements Many of these areas where the problem was occurring were in less accessible parts of the warehouse which were difficult to get close to using their current floor cleaning machine. This was health and safety concern for the company who for many years they had been using a rather dated scrubber dryer in the main area of the warehouse and relying on a mop and bucket to mop up the puddles. Ideally, they wanted a machine that would handle both tasks and a combination of events prompted the company to act. First their current machine was quite old ...