Today, we are increasingly aware of water shortages and the importance of properly managing water resources to preserve them. The professional cleaning sector is particularly sensitive to this issue, as regular cleaning can lead to high consumption of both water and detergents. One of the main challenges in this field is finding ways to reduce water usage while optimizing cleaning time without sacrificing quality. So, is it really possible to save water and time with floor scrubbers? The answer is a resounding yes! Thanks to innovative technologies like Comac’s ReWater, a water recycling system designed for floor scrubbers, you can achieve significant savings in both water and time.
If you’re interested in learning how to save water and time with your floor scrubber, continue reading this post. We will explore the impressive savings data from the Antea floor scrubber equipped with ReWater and demonstrate how this technology can transform your cleaning operations.
How to Save Water and Time with Floor Scrubbers
With Comac’s innovative ReWater technology, you can save a significant amount of water while using your floor scrubber. In fact, Comac floor scrubbers equipped with ReWater collect and recycle the water used during floor cleaning operations, making it available again for subsequent washing cycles. This way, ReWater not only reduces the need for water but also decreases time as the scrubber operates continuously throughout the battery life, thereby avoiding precious time lost during pit-stop phases.
Let’s see how the ReWater system works and its advantages to understand how to save water and time with floor scrubbers.
How the Antea ReWater Floor Scrubber’s Water Recycling Technology Works
The Antea ReWater floor scrubber is equipped with a two-stage mechanical filtration system that allows for the reuse of wash water, thereby reducing the need for frequent tank refills and drains. To understand how it works, let’s take a look at how the two water flows are managed:
- FLOW A: the floor scrubber works in standard mode without recycling the water.
- FLOW B: the solution used for cleaning the floor is collected in the recovery tank. The water passes through a mesh filter positioned inside the recovery tank, and then, with the help of a pump, it is sent directly to the brushes.
The recycling occurs only in the recovery tank of the Antea ReWater. This means the solution tank always stays clean, allowing you to choose at any time whether to use the Antea ReWater in standard mode, functioning like a regular scrubber without recycling.
What Are the Benefits of Water Recycling with ReWater?
ReWater technology for water recycling in floor scrubbers offers tangible benefits that go beyond merely reducing water and time consumption. With Antea ReWater, it’s also possible to lower costs and reduce waste. Here are the four main advantages of this technology:
- LESS WATER: Antea ReWater reuses previously used cleaning water, drastically reducing resource waste and cutting disposal costs.
- LESS TIME: with ReWater, the floor scrubber’s autonomy is no longer tied to the consumption of cleaning solution. This significantly reduces time spent on pit stops, allowing you to focus more on your work and optimize your productivity.
- LESS SOLUTION: reusing water reduces the consumption of cleaning solution, leading to lower costs and fewer chemicals released into the environment. This also helps to further decrease operating expenses.
- MORE PRODUCTIVITY: reusing water enables you to clean larger areas with the same amount of detergent, boosting efficiency and productivity in your cleaning operations. Achieve better results with fewer resources, allowing you to get more done with less effort.
How to Save Water with a Floor Scrubber
To understand how you can save water with your floor scrubber, we analyzed water consumption data for the Antea floor scrubber with ReWater compared to the standard version without recycling.
Using Antea ReWater for a 60-minute work shift requires only a single 40-liter tank, compared to the 80 liters needed by the standard model. This results in a 50% water savings for cleaning the same area.
If we compare two days of work with the Antea ReWater floor scrubber versus the standard version, the difference in water usage is striking. For two 60-minute shifts, the standard Antea model requires four full 40-liter tanks, amounting to 160 liters of water. In contrast, Antea ReWater completes the entire first day using just one 40-liter tank and needs only a 4-liter refill on the second day to compensate for minimal floor absorption. This means that Antea ReWater uses a total of just 44 liters—achieving a 72% reduction in water consumption compared to the standard version, all while maintaining optimal cleaning performance.
By using Antea ReWater for 250 days a year, on a 60-minute work shift each day, you can save 14,450 liters of water compared to a standard Antea floor scrubber—that’s the equivalent of a medium-sized tanker truck!
How to Save Time with a Floor Scrubber
Now it’s time to discover how to save time with a floor scrubber. Antea ReWater not only optimizes water consumption but also reduces the time needed to complete the job. Thanks to the ReWater technology, this floor scrubber minimizes the need for pit stops to refill and empty the water tanks, leading to a significant time savings.
Let’s examine the time-saving data compared to the standard version to understand the true positive impact of the ReWater technology.
During a 60-minute work shift, Antea ReWater saves 11 minutes of downtime compared to the standard model, as it doesn’t require refilling after the tank’s 30-minute runtime. This translates to a 65% reduction in downtime over a year, boosting efficiency and leaving more time for other tasks.
In two days of work, with 60 minutes of daily use of the floor scrubber, Antea ReWater saves 20 minutes of pit stops (10 minutes per day) due to its reduced need for refilling and emptying. Over the course of a year, this adds up to 73% fewer hours spent on pit stops, freeing up more time for other tasks.
Therefore, assuming the use of Antea ReWater for 250 days in a year, during a daily work shift of 60 minutes, you can save 3,125 minutes of pit stops compared to the same usage of a standard Antea floor scrubber.
Why Choose a Floor Scrubber with ReWater Technology?
ReWater is the ideal solution for maintenance floor cleaning in public sector, logistics, or manufacturing environments, as it allows you to save water, detergent, time, and money.
The range of Comac floor scrubbers that can feature ReWater technology is broad to meet specific cleaning needs:
- Walk-behind floor scrubbers: Antea, Versa, and Vega with a two-phase system;
- Ride-on floor scrubbers: Innova Comfort, Optima, and C120 with a two-phase system, while C85 has the more advanced four-phase system.
Download the ReWater brochure to get all the information:
How to Dispose the Waste Water from Floor Cleaning?
An important aspect of professional cleaning is the proper disposal of dirty water collected during the use of floor scrubbers. Antea ReWater provides an optimal solution thanks to its internal water recycling system, but it is always important to remember that when dirty water needs to be disposed of, it must be treated according to environmental regulations and poured into the designated drains to avoid contamination.
For Comac, managing waste water is a very important issue: there are indeed numerous solutions offered for proper and sustainable management. If you want to delve deeper into the topic, you can read the post dedicated to waste water from floor scrubbers.
More Sustainable Cleaning Thanks to Antea ReWater
We have seen how saving water with floor scrubbers is not just an economic advantage, but also an important step towards more responsible management of environmental resources. Investing in floor scrubbers like Antea ReWater means choosing a more sustainable future, where every drop counts and every minute saved translates into greater productivity.
If you would like to learn more about how our solutions can transform your approach to professional cleaning, don’t hesitate to contact us. We are here to help you achieve your goals for sustainable cleaning and efficiency.
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