Business Wire, Nov 10, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS — Tennant Company and BISSELL Homecare, Inc., today announced a licensing arrangement that will make available to consumers a new floor-care product which cleans carpets and leaves them dry in 30 minutes or less. Home users now have the opportunity to quickly rejuvenate carpet and area rugs while saving hours of drying time compared to conventional carpet-cleaning methods.
Tennant has licensed BISSELL a patented Tennant carpet-cleaning technology that is marketed by Tennant under the brand name ReadySpace[R]. Marketed by BISSELL under the brand name BISSELL PROdry[R], a home carpet cleaner, the technology takes the form of a PowerRoller, designed to trap, lift and remove dirt from carpet eliminating excess water saturation.
“We’re excited to work with BISSELL to enable millions of consumers to benefit from having this innovative cleaning technology in the new PROdry fast-drying carpet cleaner,” said Chris Killingstad, Tennant Company’s President and CEO. “This arrangement is a phenomenal opportunity to bring Tennant’s cleaning technologies to the consumer market, and BISSELL is the ideal partner with its history of quality consumer cleaning solutions.”
“Consumers are demanding more effective and faster ways to clean, especially as their time becomes more valuable. This desire is forcing innovative cleaning solutions providers such as Tennant and BISSELL to find ways to incorporate industrial-grade technologies into residential equipment at a reasonable price,” said Jim Krzeminski, BISSELL’s Executive Vice President of Product Development, Sales and Marketing.
How the Product Works
PROdry cleans carpet using BISSELL’s advanced deep-cleaning chemical formula, hot tap water, the PowerRoller (Tennant Company’s licensed ReadySpace roller technology) and suction power. The roller traps dirt from carpet fibers and lifts it into the machine. Sprayers inside the machine then spray the roller, not the carpet, such that the carpet never gets saturated and dries in 30 minutes or less. A powerful vacuum shoe extracts the dirty water into the recovery tank. Users receive all the benefits of carpet cleaning, without the disruption of waiting extended periods for the carpet to dry.
About Tennant Company
Minneapolis-based Tennant Company (NYSE: TNC) is a world leader in designing, manufacturing and marketing solutions that help create a cleaner, safer world. Its products include equipment for maintaining surfaces in industrial, commercial and outdoor environments; and specialty surface coatings for protecting, repairing and upgrading concrete floors. Tennant’s global field service network is the most extensive in the industry. Tennant has manufacturing operations in Minneapolis, Minn.; Holland, Mich.; Uden, The Netherlands; the United Kingdom; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Shanghai, China; and sells products directly in 15 countries and through distributors in more than 80 countries
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