21st March 2017
As part of Kemsol's Silver Anniversary (25 Year) celebrations, Chemical Solutions Ltd hosted a lawn bowls tournament at the local Mangere Bridge Bowls Club. Fortunately it was a gloriously sunny Wednesday afternoon on the green, to bowl for advanced players and novices alike - in contrast with the gloomy showers and flooding over the previous week. The event kicked off with staff - both from the past and the present - and with special guests, catching up over drinks and... Read More
9th September 2016
It is well known that the industry has been torn over the use of anti-bacterial agents in liquid hand soap. Conflicting scientific studies show a reasonable benefit in the use of anti-bacterial hand soap, but other studies show little of no benefit between standard hand soap and those with anti-bacterial properties. The US Food and Drug Administration has made a ruling, banning anti-bacterial soaps in the United States that contain any of 19 ingredients that have no evidence of b... Read More
25th May 2016
Those that were at the Clean NZ tradeshow would have seen the new Kemsol labels on display. The Kemsol products have now been categorised into clear, singular colour and product categories, with associated images best suited for the products’ key purpose.They have been redesigned with a brighter, internationally user-friendly interface in mind under 11 categories, with unique colour bands which allow for easy and fast reference.Each category has an associated alpha-numerical reference, sh... Read More
19th February 2016
The brainchild of 21 year old Dutch entrepreneur (Boyan Slat), the Ocean Clean Up project, is intended to clean up plastic from our world’s oceans – largely using the ocean’s own current. In June 2014, Boyan teamed with scientists and engineers to make his Ocean Clean Up project a reality. In simple terms, the plan was to deploy a huge V-shaped, floating barrier system below the ocean surface - anchored to the seabed. Sea life is often lost when they c... Read More
15th January 2016
At Kemsol we re-use as much packaging as possible. Our operations team have worked hard on making sure we have a Good Practise approach to material we can’t use, some of that is empty packaging collected from customers and other packaging that distributors return to us.Astron Plastics take packaging damaged or other unusable items from us and have had some distributor trials underway for over 12 months now. We are pleased to say the program has been really popular and making a positive differe... Read More
7th January 2016
Hospitality Operators Confess To Wasting MoneySomething we are often going on about is false economy through the use of cheap cleaning products.With operating margins internationally being squeezed to breaking point, operators are looking for absolute value from every dollar spent servicing and maintaining their businesses. So it’s no surprise to learn that professionals are attempting to shop smarter to make their money go further. In a recent P&G UK survey, operators admitted however th... Read More
30th September 2015
The Average worker comes into contact with more than 10 MILLION disease-causing bacteria lurking on their keyboard, phone and mouse.The Facts:More than 10 million bacteria lurk on the average office desk with 7,500 organisms hidden in your keyboardUnhygienic working conditions are a 'key contributor' to millions of working days lost world wide to sickness each yearBacteria and viruses can survive on hard surfaces for up to 24 hoursOur hands are a germ motorway; many surfaces they come into conta... Read More
23rd July 2015
This incident is a scary reminder of the importance of storing cleaning chemicals in a safe location in the correct container with the correct labelling. As highlighted in this Spanish tragedy, it is easy to mistake a cleaning chemical for a beverage if it is decantered into a drink/wine bottle then accidentally stored in the fridge. It only took one sip for this mistake to become fatal.In 2012, two Auckland women were seriously injured after being served the poisonous chemical benzalkonium... Read More
2nd June 2015
How often do you use wet wipes?A study by Cardiff University found that the cleaning tissues are helping to spread deadly superbugs in NHS wards. Seven commercially available wipes were tested on the most common hospital infections.In "every instance", the wipes actually spread potentially deadly infections from one surface to another, researchers said. They went on to warn that consumers who used them in their own homes, especially the bathroom, might as well go around spraying raw Campylobacte... Read More
28th May 2015
Worksafe NZ warns as company finedA waterproofing company has been fined $33,750 and ordered to pay reparation of $2,500 after one of its employees was overcome by toxic fumes.The worker was applying a bitumen-based product to the inside of a grain silo at an egg farm near Hastings at the time of the incident in April last year.The man was wearing a respirator, but did not have a solvent filter available and so used a dust filter, meaning he was exposed to the toxic solvent fumes.The worker spen... Read More
26th February 2015
Plastic recycling is becoming more and more of a factor in our industry and many others, as part of what we can be doing from a sustainability standpoint to play our part in reducing the amount of plastic ending up in our oceans. Having a cradle to cradle recycling program can also assist to give you the edge commercially and a point of difference from all the others.The world's oceans are being filled with enough plastic waste to thickly line every coastline in the world, according to the first... Read More
19th November 2014
A new study by US researchers has found that many of the personally unique bacteria found on our hands can also be found on our smartphones.The findings, published in open-access journal PeerJ, open up the possibility of smartphones being used to check if a person has picked up bugs in germ-heavy environments such as hospitals, rather than testing the person themselves.The researchers, from the University of Oregon, sampled the hands and phones of 17 people for 7000 different naturally occurring... Read More
15th September 2014
A team led by microbiologist Charles Gerba of the University of Arizona, has revealed in a recent study that a virus can spread around a whole building within two hours of coming into contact with just one surface. The team found that up to 60 per cent of the surfaces sampled were contaminated with the virus within just two to four hours. However, there is a simple solution for combating the spread, says Mr Gerba, who found using disinfecting wipes registered as effective against virus... Read More
26th August 2014
A resent study has revealed that the traditional greeting of a handshake can facilitate the transfer of a high dose of bugs, fuelling the spread of contagious illness. The study is calling for people to ditch the traditional handshake in favour of the much more hygienic ‘Fist Bump’.The study, conducted by Aberystwyth University researchers, senior lecturer Dr Dave Whitworth and PhD student Sara Mela, was published in the American Journal of Infection Control, where it was reported that an al... Read More
28th March 2014
BNZ are taking the lead in implementing measures to reduce recent high absenteeism due to colds, flues and tummy bugs. BNZ are calling for their senior managers around the country to encourage the use of hand sanitisers as well as sanitising all work surfaces twice daily. Click here to read the full article.It is great to see a company like the BNZ making such an effort to keep their staff healthy. Check out these great Kemsol sanitising products!Hand PatrolMicrobanSteri-DryBac-StopWhite An... Read More
13th December 2013
It’s been a long time coming and quite an undertaking, but finally our new road sign is standing tall and proud! She’s a beauty, designed and installed by SignOn. The sign fits in perfect harmony with our building and certainly stands out from the crowd. Give us a toot if you’re driving by to let us know that you too agree she’s a beauty! Read More
30th October 2013
Summer Time!Summer Time! Means Getting The House Ready For Beers, BBQ’s and Fun Times.We have three fantastic products designed specifically for this task… Agent-Oxy (was Deck Clean)Removes soiling, mould and mildew from timber surfaces and restores weathered wood to a bright natural appearance without the use of acids or bleach.For outdoor use | Timber cleaner and rejuvenator | Domestic & commercial useClick to see full product details Moss-KillKills and prevents moss, mould, mild... Read More
23rd September 2013
We have settled in nicely to our new premiseson Freight Place, take a look...Our new state of the art factory and head office boasts better:flowproduction capabilitiesdistributionaccesssite segregationgreat storage capacitynot forgetting to mention we've tripled in size! Read More
1st July 2013
Kemsol - On the moveAfter 9 fantastic years of calling 69 Aintree Ave our home, we are moving into better, bigger and brighter premises at 1 Freight Place, Airport Oaks, Auckland, just around the corner. Although we love our home, we have simply outgrown it, both in staff numbers and business growth. Our new site is enormous, allowing plenty of scope for future expansion as well as offering the space and facilities to do what we do even better.So on Friday 19th July we will be closed for the mov... Read More
23rd January 2013
Wash Against WasteWe have had the pleasure of supporting an amazing charity run project that is making a positive impact on our local environment.‘Wash Against Waste’ is the brain child of charitable trust EcoMatters, with the project being managed by Sarah Jane Murray. Sarah Jane, along with a team of volunteers is spending her Thursday evenings washing plates at the New Lynn Night Markets from a mobile trailer that is stocked with plates, cutlery, dishwash detergent and tea towels, in a fi... Read More
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