The Swedish Association of Industrial and Institutional Hygiene Products

Secretariat

Director: Ulrika Flodberg
Assistent: Doris Kahnlund
Do you want to send us an e-mail, please use: first namn.family namn@ktf.se
Postal address: P.O. Box 5501, SE-114 85 Stockholm
Visiting address: Storgatan 19
Phone: +46 8 783 82 40
Fax: +46 8 783 82 38

Short about IIH

Objectives

The overall objective of IIH is to promote the common interest and expertise of the industry represented by member companies. In practice this means:

• Representing the professional cleaning and hygiene products industry in contacts with official and professional bodies.
• Co-operating with national authorities in the preparation of legislation affecting the activities of the industry.
• Studying issues relevant to industrial and institutional products, collectively seeking solutions to concerns about human and environmental health.
• Working in close collaboration with member companies, providing support and guidance as necessary.
• Collecting and disseminating information.
• Achieving all the above without interfering with free competition.

History

IIH started its activities in 1992, earlier a section of The Swedish Association of Cosmetic, Toiletry and Household Products (KTF).

Head office

The head office is based in Stockholm. The secretariat is also head office for other trade associations which IIH collaborates closely with, for instance the above mentioned KTF and the Swedish Association of Catering Equipment Manufacturers and Distributors (BFS)

Members

The approximately 15 member companies are producing and marketing chemical products, machines and utensils for professional cleaning. One associated company is raw material suppliers. Please find enclosed a list of members.
IIH can be segmented into three groups:

• Industrial hygiene: food industries (dairy, meat, beverage, agriculture etc) and commercial laundries.
• Institutional hygiene: catering and restaurants, personal care, floor care, laundries and general maintenance.
• Other applications: transport maintenance, metal finishing.

Customer base

IIH represents an industry whose products are essential to society. The customer base is comprised of professional users who seek products and services, which care for their specialised cleaning and hygiene requirements. The ambition of IIH is to respond to customers’ demands for products including systems and services. This is the reason why IIH nowadays is working not only with the chemical products but also with machines and utensils.

Organisation

The concrete work within IIH is handled by the Board, the Technical Committee and the Marketing Committee.

Main activities

The complexity of the Industrial and Institutional market makes the communication of safety and environmental information a heavy responsibility and a major challenge for producers. Therefore IIH is dealing with issues concerning safety and environmental labelling, safety data sheets, pictograms, packaging and education. More often this work ends up in trade recommendations.
 IIH is also dealing with public procurement issues, especially ecological sustainable public procurement.

International co-operation

IIH is a member of Association Internationale de la Savonnerie, de la Détergence et des Produits d’Entretien (AISE) which is an important body for the European co-operation of our industry, mainly through the AISE Industrial and Institutional Products Co-ordination Group. AISE Annual Review 1997 focusing on Industrial and Institutional Products available on request.