Irish Eco award goes to Noonan
October 1st 2010 The introduction of concentrated building care cleaning products from Diversey has helped one of Ireland's largest facilities services providers scoop an Eco Business award
Noonan, supplier of facilities services to companies operating in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK, received an Eco Business Award at the Corporate Social Responsibility Awards for 2010 organised by Chambers Ireland. Central to the success was the company's participation in the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Cleaner Greener Production Programme and the introduction of the SmartDose range of concentrated building care cleaning products from Diversey to support its sustainability objectives. The company selected SmartDose as its main building care product as soon as it became available and has introduced it into over 1000 sites, with more to follow.
John O'Donoghue, Group CEO at Noonan, comments: "The ease of transition to the SmartDose system which has been seamless from a client perspective has been critical in gaining the support of our management team and expediting the roll out of this initiative.
Our clients have enthusiastically endorsed this as in many cases they are actively engaged in their own sustainability initiatives." The portable SmartDose system includes four high-performance TASKI building care concentrated products designed for safe, efficient cleaning. Its special pack design incorporates a patented dual-setting dispenser that doses product accurately and consistently into spray bottles, buckets, sinks or cleaning machines. Three EU Flower sustainabilitycertified products cover all main daily building care tasks including washroom, floor, and glass and hard surface cleaning. The fourth product is a disinfectant for floors and other surfaces.
"Noonan planned to be the first integrated facilities services provider to lead the way with sustainability within the BSC industry, and to focus on environmental issues," says Sarah Kearney of Noonan. "We wanted to reduce our carbon foot print while introducing simple and safe solutions for Noonan staff nationwide."
Through its participation in the EPA's Cleaner Greener Production Programme, Noonan wanted to introduce green chemicals, make measurable reductions in consumption of water, energy, chemicals and reduce the generation of waste. The company selected SmartDose following detailed studies to identify a set of cleaning products that met its stringent criteria and complied with EU Flower certification.
"After analysing the systems available from key manufacturers and suppliers our senior management team recognised that Diversey's SmartDose system ticked all the boxes in relation to EPA standards and Noonan's achieving a major part of its overall sustainability objective," says Sarah Kearney.
The business development and technical teams from Diversey worked with colleagues from Noonan to provide information and documentation to support the claims it made during the selection process. Diversey fast-tracked the certification and introduction of the products in conjunction with its supply chain partner Bunzl Cleaning & Safety Supplies to ensure it could meet the tight timeframes.
SmartDose is being rolled out to 1000+ sites managed by Noonan throughout Ireland. This is the largest implementation of SmartDose globally so far. Diversey has provided training, technical support and documentation during the rollout. The most recent sites include seven depots operated by a national bus provider where the products will be used for daily cleaning of around 1300 vehicles in the operator's fleet.
"We have supplied cleaning products to Noonan for many years," says Eugene Grogan, national account director for Diversey Ireland. "To win this new contract it was important that we had the right set of products, with the right certification, at the right time to fulfil the customer's specification. Thanks to the hard work of our business, sales and technical teams we were able to offer SmartDose and strengthen our long term relationship with Noonan." SmartDose is suitable for building care applications where space is limited, connection to a water supply is impractical or complete portability is required. It enables a high degree of control over product use for cleaning consistency with improved sustainability, reduced wastage, predictable cost-in-use, efficiency and safer handling with less risk of skin contact. Each 1.4L container of SmartDose concentrate can generate up to 700L of ready-to-use product.
SmartDose promotes sustainability through the use of concentrates.Water is added at point of use rather than the place of manufacture.With its dosing ratio of up to 500:1, each Smart Dose container is said to support more cleaning jobs litre-for-litre and to offer savings in storage space and transportation costs when compared with conventional bulk chemicals or ready-to-use products. The company says that less packaging is required which results in less waste for disposal. More articles from Diversey UK Limited: | 
