Evans Vanodine has been developing and manufacturing consistently efficient and cost effective cleaning and hygiene products for almost 100 years. Its product offering includes an extensive range of applications for the contract cleaning, janitorial, industrial, food processing and animal health sectors.

The company currently exports to 72 countries worldwide, with a further 10 countries serviced by licensed manufacturing units overseas.

Evans Vanodine has built a reputation based on innovation and commitment to research and development, ensuring a flow of new and improved formulations. In-house laboratories enable the company to deliver quality and consistency at every stage of production and the company has achieved accreditation by the British Standards Institution under ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.

The UKAS accredited Microbiology Laboratory is approved to test disinfectants against European Standard test methods, ensuring products are fit for purpose and bactericidal claims are substantiated.

Evans Vanodine is the proud recipient of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise – recognised as Britain’s most coveted prize for business success, as well as being an Export Champion for the North West.

Commitment to quality and service is deeply rooted in the Evans family tradition and this, together with dedicated staff throughout the company, will ensure continued success for Evans Vanodine and their customers for years to come.

Vikan was founded in 1898 by A P Pedersen, who was raised just a few kilometres from our present headquarters in Denmark. As part of a farming family who consumed the fruits of their own labour round the table after work, Pedersen had an instinctive awareness about the importance and value of hygiene.

Over the subsequent decades, Vikan grew, went international and moved into exciting new business areas; all along however, hygienic cleaning has always remained our core focus. Today, Vikan provides products in more than 90 countries.

Vikan supplies very special, high-quality, high efficiency, microfibre mops and cloths, plus brooms, dustpans, trolleys and more to make cleaning easier and more efficient for offices restaurants, hospitals, schools, supermarkets and other public buildings.

Vikan fulfils its environment-related obligations through full compliance with the ISO 14001:2015 standard. Yet our commitment to the environment and to other social responsibilities runs deeper than simple compliance. Denmark has long been a global leader in sustainability, and as a Danish company, we share the conviction that a greener world is a better world.

With headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, Rubbermaid Commercial Products is the world-famous American manufacturer of commercial cleaning tools and products. Today, Rubbermaid is a part of the global Newell brands business.

Rubbermaid specialises in high-quality, innovative, products which will produce better cleaning outcomes faster than using traditional cleaning tools and methodologies. In keeping with their American heritage, Rubbermaid tools are noted for their durable construction; they are built to last so that the owner can be assured that they will last long enough in use to ensure they get their full return on investment on a premium product.

As you would expect from a company of Rubbermaid’s size, new products become available regularly as existing products are upgrade and improved, and new innovation brought to market. In a recent development another member of the Newell brands family has come together with Rubbermaid, and so the premium range of MAPA Professional gloves and hand protection now forms part of the product offering.

Operating in more than 30 countries, our Katrin brand is well established across the Nordics and in all European countries.

As a part of Metsä Group, a responsible Finnish forest industry group producing high-quality products mainly from renewable Nordic wood, we are a strong and reliable business partner for successful, long-lasting customer relationships.

With Katrin we strive to make life and operations with us as a business partner as easy as possible for our customers. We offer tailor made solutions based upon our customers’ needs.

We are always aiming to fulfil our customers’ expectations. Our customers and partners gain cumulative benefits with Katrin: we ensure that environmental, social and economic impacts are in perfect balance.

Our vision is to be the brand that our customers recognise as embodying the following core values:

• Easy – we help customers to do better business in an easier way (by offering them handy sales tools & growth driving services)
• Insightful – based on our market knowledge we provide tailored solutions and business opportunities
• Trustworthy – we are reliable in every aspect of the partnership from the product right through the whole value chain

Early life
Our Katrin AfH brand was one of the first away-from-home tissue brands in Europe, having been introduced in 1974. The word “Katrin” originates from the Metsä Tissue Katrinefors mill, which was founded in 1765. The mill was named after the founder’s wife and is the origin of the brand and products that we know today.