CRI - Seal of Approval Program for carpet cleaning test
02 Mar '06
3 min read
Dalton based The Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) announced that it will continue to build on its Seal of Approval signature program for carpet cleaning. It also said that it is accepting products for testing under the latest phase of the program.
The new CRI Seal of Approval for Deep Cleaning Systems evaluates the effectiveness of the overall cleaning process and includes testing of equipment and cleaning solutions used in combination. This latest component joins CRI's successful Seal of Approval testing programs already in place for deep cleaning extractors and cleaning solutions.
The Seal of Approval (SOA) for Deep Cleaning Systems tests for eight performance criteria: soil removal, re-soiling, appearance retention, amount of moisture left in the carpet, surface appearance change, colorfastness, pH level, and optical brighteners.
SOA for Deep Cleaning Systems includes the use of x- ray fluorescence (XRF), a sophisticated technology that precisely measures the amount of soil removed from carpet. XRF was developed by private industry and enhanced by NASA for the Space Shuttle program and is recognized as a Certified Space Technology™ by the Space Foundation. The Space Foundation's certification of the Seal of Approval program is a way to recognize CRI's use of space technology to improve carpet cleaning for millions of consumers.
“We've taken the successful work we've done in evaluating carpet extraction equipment using XRF technology and married it with our Seal of Approval protocol for cleaning solutions. This is an opportunity for us to designate which systems work best for the customer as well as give the individual companies that produce and market cleaning systems another way to distinguish their products as superior,” said Werner Braun, president of the CRI.
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