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35 Year Anniversary Announcement

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Titan Laboratories Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary!

Thank you for placing your trust in us for 35 years! 

What began in 1984 as a small laboratory with just a handful of employees, Titan Labs has grown into a worldwide supplier with distributors in 9 countries. Over this span we’ve grown steadily, with sales and distribution increasing year over year.

For 2019 and beyond, we plan to expand our business relationship with you while continuing to grow – and providing you the best service and superior products. 

To mark the occasion, we’ve published our new website at www.TitanLabs.net. In addition to expanding our product and technical information, we’ve added a new Blog Posts feature that lets us share information with you straight from the field.  Please visit us when you have a few minutes and let us know what you think.

We encourage you to continue sending in your photos and videos, and they’ll be included in our Blog Posts and updates. In exchange we’ll send you some cool Titan Labs swag! 

Contact Info@TitanLabs.net for more information.

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Is Water Hard or Soft in My Area?

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One of the subjects that comes up a lot around here is Hard Water. The most common question is: How do I know if my water is hard or soft?

The answer is: Unless you live in Boston, Seattle, Hawaii, or Alabama, you most likely have hard water. See, in the good ‘ol USA, water hardness is measured in Grains per Gallon (gpg) as defined as 1 grain (64.8 mg) of calcium carbonate per U.S. gallon (3.79 liters) of water, or 17.118 ppm. Check with your local water provider to find out if you have hard water in your region. They usually do an annual report and you can get a copy of it, if you didn’t already get one in the mail.

Characteristics of Hard Water

Hard water resists foaming, so usually cleaning compound manufacturers add heaps of a foaming agent called Sodium Laureth Sulfate. It makes a lot of bubbles, but be forewarned: it combines with the calcium to create deposits that stains anything it touches: windows, tiles, spas, showers, etc. These deposits, called “scale,” are composed mainly of calcium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide, and calcium sulfate. The problem gets even worse when you add detergents (aka surfactants), as the positive calcium ions (present in hard water) mix with the detergent to create a film of soap scum instead of lather. Now add the residue from the sodium laureth sulfate and it makes a kind of ‘cement’ that’s really hard to remove.

Water Hardness or Softness in the USA

U.S.A map showing water hardness or softness by region

These deposits, called “scale,” are composed mainly of calcium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide, and calcium sulfate.

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Can I Use Citri-Flo on Carpets?

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Each year, a few of our carpet cleaning distributors invite us to their Customer Appreciation Days. CADs. These things are great – you get to set up in a booth and talk to all of their regular customers, have some free food and a general all-around good time. One of them even brings in several kegs of beer!  And of course, I’ve got Citri-Flo to demo all day.

It’s almost all upside, but don’t forget that when you’re manning a booth anywhere, you’ll be repeating yourself all day.  It’s just the nature of a booth.  This gets compounded by the fact that you’re also hanging out with these folks during lunch, the prize giveaways, etc. So you get asked the same questions a lot. 

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Earth Friendly Technologies

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As a responsible manufacturer, we are environmentally oriented, including waste and energy usage. Green certification is primarily for consumer chemical products, with much emphasis on building materials, processes and energy. We explored Green Guard and Green Seal certification, which apply to cleaning agents. We are familiar with Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), Green Label, Ecologo, Design for the Environment, Greenstar Certified and Greenguard, among others. In a phone conversation with Green Seal, we learned it takes 3 months, requires an elaborate request for information, and the cost will not be quoted until the application is submitted.

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Fabric Cleaning Codes: Code W, Code S, and More

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Today I took an interesting call about fabric cleaning codes which led to some new insights and I’d like to share them with you.

The caller said,

I have some new furniture that says it should only be cleaned by a Code S-Compliant Cleaner. What is Code S? Do any of your cleaning products meet these coded standards?

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