Vikan Brushes and Brooms for Industrial Bakeries
Globally recognised Vikan brushes, brooms, mops, and dustpans should be the first choice when sweeping floors in industrial bakeries. This should come as no surprise as Vikan has been producing professional-grade hygienic cleaning equipment for the food and beverage industry since 1898.
Vikan is unique in the professional cleaning tool industry in that they incorporate their customers into their product-development research. This inclusion encourages innovation, setting new standards for hygienic cleaning and cleaning efficiency.
An Evolution to Vikan Brushes and Brooms
The first reference to brooms and broomsticks with witches using them for transportation was in 1453, but it wasn’t until about 1797 that modern broom-making began. Levi Dickinson, a farmer from Massachusetts, manufactured the tool as a gift for his wife to simplify the task of sweeping the house.
Dickenson’s sweeping device caught on as a gift from husband to wife and by the early 1800s, he and his son were manufacturing hundreds of brooms each year. One can only wonder if, 100 years later, when a farmer from Denmark, A.P. Pedersen founded Skive Børstefabrik (Danish for Skive Brush Factory), if he intended to gift his wife with the utensil.
Regardless, the Skive Brush Company went on to become Vikan, the world’s leading supplier of hygienic cleaning tools and insight for the food and beverage industry and other hygienic-sensitive environments.
Vikan Cleaning Equipment for Industrial Bakeries
The name Vikan originates from the words “Vi kan” (Danish for we can). Pedersen’s message was that the correct combination of manual effort and the best quality cleaning utensil gives the user the best results. Nothing could be truer than when using Vikan brushes and brooms and their other quality equipment while cleaning the floors in industrial bakeries.
As with any food production facility, industrial bakeries need to be kept hygienically clean to stick to all sorts of health and safety regulations. One of the easiest ways to cross-contaminate hygiene-sensitive spaces from one area to another is by walking from a contaminated floor to another section of the facility.
Maintaining high levels of cleanliness in industrial bakeries, floor-cleaning equipment should be of the highest quality. It is also convenient if the cleaning equipment is colour coded. One cannot sweep production area floors with the same broom that one would sweep the stock-receiving or dispatch areas without the risk of contaminating one area with the other’s germs and bacteria.
Vikan brushes, brooms, and a full range of other cleaning tools come in a range of colours to differentiate between areas within the bakery. Additionally, colour-coded systems could be used to tell utensils apart. Red could be selected for caustic or acidic substances, blue for alkaline ingredients, and yellow for normal dirt and dust, for example.
Find Vikan Cleaning Equipment in South Africa
At Pescatech, we insist on supplying only the best quality cleaning products to our clientele. We offer a full range of colour coded Vikan cleaning tools. From Vikan brushes, brooms, and buckets to scoops, scrapers and shovels, forks, and rakes, we stock it all. We travel the globe to constantly learn from our suppliers and diligently apply everything taught to the South African food-processing industry. Additionally, we offer a full range of janitorial solutions and services. Become part of our national community today. At Pescatech, food safety is everything.
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