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Congested floors, awkward access
Production floors rarely offer the clear runs a warehouse does. Machine guarding, benches, pallets and work in progress break the floor into short passes, so manoeuvrability usually beats raw width — a compact machine that reaches everywhere cleans more floor than a big one that has to be walked around obstacles.
What is on the floor decides the machine type. Dry swarf, offcuts, packaging and grinding dust go to a sweeper, which lifts them into a hopper and filters the dust it disturbs. Oil, coolant and ground-in soiling need a scrubber-dryer, and the squeegee rubber has to suit an oily floor or it will streak — a grade we specify rather than assume.
Where swarf is heavy the practical answer is often both: sweep the debris first so the scrubber-dryer is not dragging metal across a finished surface and chewing through brushes. Tell us what your process puts on the floor and we will spec the brush and blade grades with the machine.
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Scrubber-dryer
M500
The M500 is a walk-behind scrubber-dryer with a 500 mm cleaning path and up to 2,000 m²/hour productivity, built for high-traffic floors. Mechanical, electronic-free controls keep training and maintenance minimal.
Cleaning path 500 mm
Cleaning capacity 2,000 m²/h
Recovery tank capacity 50 L
01 Which machine handles metal swarf?
A sweeper. Swarf is dry debris, and a sweeper lifts it into a hopper rather than pushing it around — the MACH 1 for smaller or congested shops, the MACH 2 or MACH 3 PRO where there is room to ride. Running a scrubber-dryer over loose swarf drags metal across the floor and wears the brushes out early, so sweep first if both are needed.
02 What about oil and coolant on the floor?
That is scrubber-dryer work, and the squeegee rubber grade matters more than the machine. Standard rubber on an oily floor is what most streaking complaints come down to; we specify an oil-resistant grade for the floor you actually have. Replacement blades and brushes come from us too — see spare parts and consumables.
03 Our gangways are narrow and there is plant everywhere. Will anything fit?
Usually yes, but the answer comes from the floor rather than a brochure. Walk-behind machines turn in their own length and get between benches and guarding where a ride-on cannot. We will walk the route an operator would take and size it from that — free of charge, anywhere in the UK.
04 Can we run a machine without stopping production?
The battery machines here run with no fumes and at a noise level people can work alongside, so cleaning can happen around production rather than waiting for a shutdown. A sweeper filters the dust it lifts rather than redistributing it, which matters on a floor where people are working.
