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Healthcare worker changing refill on PURELL ES8 Hand Sanitizer Dispenser

Energy-on-the-Refill: A Touch-Free Solution with Labor and Waste in Mind

Stephen Wagner

5/24/2022

By Stephen Wagner

Senior Total Solutions Manager, GOJO Industries

Hand hygiene dispensers have become critical to an organization’s wellness program. Hand soap dispensers are at every sink, and hand sanitizer dispensers line hallways and other key locations like entranceways and near elevators. All of those dispenser locations add up fast, which can make maintaining a fleet of battery-operated dispensers a time-consuming and potentially expensive task. While excellent in offering hand hygiene without needing to touch any additional surfaces, touch-free dispensers require regular maintenance, with batteries depleting at different intervals and dispensers in high-traffic locations needing new refills sooner than lower-traffic areas. With ongoing labor shortages, this can be challenging and strain critical elements of a business.

The PURELL® brand was prepared for this moment with groundbreaking Energy-on-the-Refill technology, an industry-exclusive dispensing solution, and a key feature of the PURELL® Touch-Free ES8 dispensers.

Energy-on-the-Refill technology solves a common service issue and makes business operations more efficient, innovative, and easy. Until now, all touch-free dispensers have required changing batteries and refills separately. For businesses with multiple dispensers, this could mean spending a substantial amount of time and labor to keep them running smoothly. With breakthrough Energy-on-the-Refill technology, the battery is changed as the refill is replaced, eliminating an extra step in the maintenance process, decreasing labor, and ensuring visitor satisfaction.

What does Energy-on-the-Refill mean?

Energy-on-the-Refill means each new hand sanitizer or soap refill comes with its own energy source – a coin cell battery that’s integrated into the refill. As a result, when you replace the empty refill, you get fresh product and fresh energy in one simple step. In addition, there is a backup power source inside the dispenser to provide added assurance of high-performance even with extreme high-frequency use.

Benefits:

  • Streamlines Maintenance: The maintenance process for Energy-on-the-Refill enabled dispensers is simple. Because two key steps have been condensed into one, it can help save time, labor, and money. The Energy-on-the-Refill technology allows businesses and their staff to take their minds off dispenser maintenance while still effectively promoting hand hygiene.
  • Increases Customer Satisfaction: Energy-on-the-Refill ensures businesses that their dispensers are always ready for use, which naturally can reduce customer complaints. And because refills and batteries are refreshed at the same time, customers won’t have to encounter empty dispensers, either.
  • Reduces Waste: Dispensers with Energy-on-the-Refill technology represent a 68% reduction in battery waste and a 15% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to leading touch-free systems on the market.1 In addition, the recycling and disposal process is easy because the PET and refill components can be disassembled, and the battery can be removed.

The PURELL® brand is the first to develop Energy-on-the-Refill technology, and it was created with our customers in mind. For businesses committed to keeping their customers safe but don’t have the labor to maintain touch-free dispensers, Energy-on-the-Refill is prepared to help.

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1. Based on a 1200mL refill with an assumed usage rate of 2.35 refills per dispenser per year and a 6-year dispenser lifetime. **2017 Healthcare Sanitizer Market Sales provided by Definitive Healthcare, LLC.

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