by Brianna Crandall — March 16, 2016—Sealed Air Corporation and its Diversey Care division announced in recent weeks that it has achieved CE Marking — a mandatory compliance marking indicating certain products sold within the European Economic Area (EEA) meet high safety, health, and environmental protection requirements — for its TASKI Intellibot SWINGBOT 1650 machine.
The demand for automated cleaning machines is growing rapidly, particularly in the world’s developed countries, notes Sealed Air. This is seen as due to significant advances in robotic technology, labor shortages, and the need for higher productivity in daily or routine cleaning tasks.
Since the acquisition of Intellibot in March 2015, Sealed Air won an Innovation Award for the TASKI Swingbot 755 in October 2015 at the ISSA / INTERCLEAN exhibition in Las Vegas, and sales of the robotic machines have reached new record levels, says the company.
The company has also received a surge of interest in the hands-free cleaning machines from European buyers, and the achievement of CE Marking means that Diversey Care can now answer that demand. Machines have already shipped to customers in the U.K., Benelux, Scandinavia, France, Spain and Germany, where ISS has purchased three units for evaluation ahead of a possible world-wide adoption.
TASKI SWINGBOT 1650 machines are engineered to dramatically improve the economics of cleaning. Extended battery life means they can work across multiple shifts, while remote diagnostics and reporting means that operators can also track the location and performance of their machine and are alerted when human attention is required. Locations that can be ideal for hands-free cleaning by these machines include schools, hospitals, shopping centers and airports.