A changing brand

Cleaning machines by professionals for professionals: this is the goal that the company G. Staehle GmbH u. Co. KG is pursuing with its columbus brand. This goal has remained the same since the company was founded. Yet today it requires more than just a range of machinery for easy and effective cleaning. Professional users expect more. And they get more.

 

Any company that, like columbus, has 80 years of success in the cleaning industry and a reputation as a solid, reliable partner is obviously doing something right. One thing they certainly have a lot of is experience. That, and the capacity to develop, recognise the changing demands of the market early on and to channel these demands into new, innovative concepts for machinery. Constantly adapting while staying true to itself – this is what columbus means when it promises its customers: CLEAN IS QUALITY.

 

Professional products for professional cleaning

Let’s put it another way – to get the floors in a building as spotless as the cleaning company and their customers expect, the right tools are required: machines that clean efficiently from one day to the next. Robustly built, easy to handle, and with all the right accessories for different uses. Developed according to German engineering principles and knowledge. Equipped with field-tested technology. So, with this in mind, columbus doesn’t produce an endless range of machines. Instead, it offers only the machines the customers need – ones designed according to the size and material of the floors in question. Single-disc machines, wet and dry vacuum cleaners, sweepers, spray extraction machines and scrubber dryers – the latter designed in line with the HAACP concept and therefore the best suited for use in the health care sector.

 

Quality – beyond the products

Well-trained, experienced staff who measure their proximity to the customers not in kilometres, but in terms of direct, personal contact established over several years. For columbus – and for the customers –this is the key to success. Staff who are interested in more than merely selling machinery. As Karl-Heinz Bäuerle, Head of Sales & Marketing, explains: ‘Our services range from building analysis to recommending and demonstrating suitable equipment, training staff, carrying out maintenance and repair, and providing replacement machinery. We also offer customised leasing, financing and hire-purchase services, as well as maintenance agreements for individual machines and entire fleets. We want to offer our range of services with the best possible coverage, and are therefore expanding our distribution and service network not only here in Germany, but all over Europe.’

 

Key word: sustainability

Further proof of the close relationship to the customers is the current focus on sustainability in the product range. As in many other markets, the economical use of resources is a growing priority in the cleaning industry. This makes the question of sustainability an increasingly important factor when deciding whether or not to buy a machine. Less of everything, better for everyone: that’s the approach columbus is taking. Less impact on the environment thanks to the integrated columbus chemical dosage system, less material consumption thanks to economic, space-saving design, less energy consumption thanks to low-friction transmission – these are just some of the ways in which columbus scrubber dryers are helping protect our environment. And all this gives an extra meaning to our promise: CLEAN IS QUALITY.