Hygienitechsystems
Hygienitech Systems LLC, founded in 1999, originally focused on providing mattress cleaning and sanitizing services. We did so after discovering that the mattress cleaning and sanitizing business was a mature service industry throughout Europe which began in the early 1980's. Our extensive research uncovered the fact that there were thousands of businesses in Europe providing mattress cleaning and sanitizing services to both the private sector and thousands of multi-bed facilities on a regular basis.
Our further market research revealed that there were no similar, dry and chemical-free services being performed anywhere throughout North America. The only somewhat related services targeting the problem of mattress contamination was being done by a few carpet cleaning companies-- and only in very rare instances did they promote this service due to the inherent problems encountered when using a wet or steam process. Carpet cleaners were also faced with the inherent problems associated with using the same equipment designed for carpeting to clean and sanitize the mattress.
We started Hygienitech by importing a system manufactured in Europe so that we could establish a prototype service operation in South Florida. The business grew faster than we anticipated and within a few months we were importing additional systems to handle the growing client base. However, the machines we were importing were not designed for the American market (220 Volts vs. 110/120 Volts) and their antiquated technology and overall design characteristics made them difficult to use as well as unreliable.