MINNEAPOLIS—June 8, 2010—Tennant Company (NYSE: TNC), a world leader in designing, manufacturing and marketing solutions that help create a cleaner, healthier world, today introduces two affordable, reliable commercial vacuums to the North America market, the V-SMU-14 single motor upright vacuum and the V-BP-6 backpack vacuum. The V-SMU-14 offers durability, reliability and productivity, while substantially reducing service costs by eliminating common components that cause vacuums to fail. The V-SMU-14 is LEED-qualifying with CRI SOA Silver Performance and noise levels of less than 70 dBA. The vacuum improves indoor air quality by using a standard HEPA 3-stage filtration.
The V-BP-6 maximizes operator comfort with an ergonomic harness design that distributes weight to the operator’s hips rather than back. The V-BP-6 is LEED-qualifying with CRI SOA Bronze Performance and noise levels of less than 70 dBA. Similar to the upright, this vacuum significantly improves indoor air quality with standard HEPA 4-stage filtration.
“The commercial floor care market is saturated with upright and backpack vacuums, but the reality is that very few of them, if any, deliver proven cleaning results at an affordable price,” said Andy Eckert, Vice President, Americas. “Tennant Company’s dual-branded V-SMU-14 and V-BP-6 offer the reliability and high quality that Tennant is known for at a price well below the industry standard.”
According to Eckert, both the V-SMU-14 and the V-BP-6 are ideal for hospitality, healthcare and office facilities.