Report Overview
This report provides insights into the cleaning habits and practices of organizations in the Packaging
Industry. It establishes a benchmark understanding of the role and relevance of industrial cleaning and its impact on product quality, production cost, production efficiencies, worker safety and health and environmental responsibility. This strategic research covers a broad range of topics pertaining to leaning and provides a starting point for additional research in related areas and complementary industries.

Who should read this report…

• Manufacturing company executives; particularly in the packaging, plastics, rubber, food & beverage, consumer packaged goods industries
• Plant managers that need to reduce costs, improve product quality, improve worker safety and
  meet environmental regulations and initiatives
• Manufacturing, industrial, process and cost engineers responsible for reducing product cost
• Corporate environmental engineers responsible for implementing environmentally responsible business practices and processes
• Maintenance managers responsible for maintaining overall cleanliness of equipment and facilities
• Contract cleaners who provide cleaning services to the manufacturing industry

The report will provide you with…
This benchmark study provides some new insights into the role and importance of cleaning in a manufacturing environment. The report is based upon the results of multi-question survey and includes discussion points about the data that are intended to provide probing and factual observations based upon the survey results. While the answers to the survey came from representatives in the packaging industry, the survey results and discussion points are relevant to many manufacturing environments.

Among the survey questions asked are:

• What solutions do you use when cleaning equipment by hand?
• How often does your company clean its production equipment?
• How cost effective is your current cleaning method?
• How important is it to your organization that your cleaning methods be environmentally friendly?
• How important is it to your organization to increase cleaning safety?

Study methodology…
The research was conducted independently by Cold Jet, the world’s largest manufacturer of dry ice blast cleaning systems. While Cold Jet has a particular interest in the cleaning practices of packaging companies, the majority of the questions asked of survey participants were related to general cleaning costs, satisfaction, quality, safety and environmental concerns. The surveyed sample consisted of 141 people representing manager level and higher. Nearly half of the respondents represented business with less than 100 employees; 34 percent were from companies with 100 to 500 employees; and 17 percent were from companies with more than 500 employees. Data was collected during the summer of 2008.