Microfiber: Crunching The Numbers

Sometimes implementing new products is the answer to streamlining cleaning programs and reducing costs

By Corinne Zudonyi, Editor

In a slowing economy, managers are looking for any way to reduce their expenditures and streamline cleaning efficiencies. Rarely will the answer to their worries be to purchase more products, but in this case, that is exactly what experts recommend.

Microfiber is not a new technology for the cleaning industry, but it is often overlooked, not fully understood by many facility managers and considered too expensive for tight budgets. To extinguish this perception, it would behoove managers to educate themselves on all that microfiber offers because, according to experts, the financial benefits heavily outweigh the initial costs.

"If facility managers don't mind paying the initial cost of hardware and necessary training," says Jeannie Murphy, president and owner of Tulsa, Okla.-based Murphy Sanitary Supply, "implementing microfiber will save managers money in the long run."

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