The product system QUICK & EASY from Werner & Mertz Professional convinces as a mobile dosing system for safe and ergonomic cleaning. Now available for disinfection, also the health care and food industry benefit from the QUICK & EASY advantages. On top of this, the new generation of Quick & Easy comes with connected application training, enabling a quick start also for newcomers into the commercial cleaning sector.

Following its principle for integrally sustainable cleaning solutions, Werner & Mertz Professional proudly introduces a new product for the polish portfolio of green care PROFESSIONAL. The sustainable floor polish LONGLIFE matt, provides a matting effect to floors and works ideally in a system with the green care PROFESSIONAL ultra-performance stripper LINAX complete.

Werner & Mertz Professional introduces a unique green-Effective system for mechanical warewashing and laundry promissing with Cradle to Cradle CertifiedTM concentrates and a clever packaging design, compact efficiency while offering at the same time integrated user safety. We are proud to present Kliks, the first Cradle to Cradle CertifiedTM system for mechanical warewashing and laundry.

The family-owned and operated Werner & Mertz of Mainz celebrated its 150th anniversary with the largest employee party ever in company history. From its founding as a wax goods factory to becoming the European market leader in ecological cleaning products, the global business looks back at an eventful history and points proudly to its loyalty to the city of Mainz, capital of Rhineland-Palatinate and only 40kms away from Frankfurt.

Visitors to the CMS trade show in Berlin can gain insight into sustainable closed-loop concepts at the tana-Chemie stand. In keeping with the green-Effective® guiding principle “do the right things right”, tana-Chemie GmbH will present its innovations for a circular economy at the CMS 2017 trade show for cleaning systems and infrastructure services in Berlin from 19 to 22 September 2017.

Werner & Mertz participated at the Cradle to Cradle® Expert Talks in Vienna about "closing the loop". Latest achievements and developments of the Recyclate Initative, a pioneering initative for packaging recyclability, were presented by Frank Vancraeyveld, CEO of tana-Chemie, and Immo Sander, Head of Packaging Development at Werner & Mertz. Furthermore the Material Health Certification in GOLD was credited to the new printing inks which Siegwerk Druckfarben worked out together with Werner & Mertz.

Recyclate Initiative receives the PackTheFuture Award in the Ecodesign category for its innovative bottles made of 100% HDPE recyclates from the Yellow Bag collection system

In driving integral circular economy, the Recyclate Initiative from the Werner & Mertz Group is taking on a new challenge. Now that the green care PROFESSIONAL bottles are made of 100% recycled material, a breakthough into sustainable printing is made. The product labels are produced with printing inks according to the Cradle-to-Cradle® principle.

The use of old plastic for new packaging, known as Recyclate Initiative, has achieved recognition as a best practice example way beyond Germany's borders. In mid-March Reinhard Schneider, CEO and sole owner of Werner & Mertz GmbH, was invited to two conferences in Brussels and Berlin to speak about the family-owned company's commitment to sustainability.

Great success of the partnership with arrow country supplies in the United Kingdom. On the London Cleaning Show, Quick & Easy has been recognized with the Innovation Award in the category cleaning products. The innovative system for mobile, exact dosing and safe working, combined with highly sustainable and powerful formulations convinced the jury as well as the visitors.

The shocking claim by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in its New Plastics Economy report that "more plastic than fish would be swimming in the world's oceans by 2050" raced from last year's World Economic Forum around the globe. And it appears to have shaken up many people. At this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, 40 industry leaders signed a declaration and committed to recycling more plastic in future. As a supporter of the New Plastics Economy, the Mainz-based family-run Werner & Mertz cheered this step toward sustainable handling of plastics around the world.