The Cleanfax Story
For more than 40 years, Cleanfax has provided floor cleaning and disaster restoration professionals with information designed to help them manage and grow their businesses.
Cleanfax magazine is available in print and online in order to share valuable cleaning and restoration tips with the entire industry.
Much more than just a magazine, Cleanfax offers technical tips, business management strategies, and trending content important to the cleaning and restoration industry, available on all devices and platforms: Print, digital, newsletter, video, and social media.
Humble Origins
Cleanfax is the brainchild of John Downey.
It began in the mid-1980s under a different name, Clean Scene, as the official publication (originally a newsletter) of a regional trade association, the United Carpet Cleaners Institute (UCCI). But another publication by the industry supplier Steamway, titled Clean Scene, caused some confusion.
After some collaboration and brainstorming, Downey came up with Clean Facts. As some recall, during that early era, fax machines were relatively new and represented cutting-edge communication technology. So instead of Clean Facts, Cleanfax was born. A name with a double meaning of sorts.
Eventually, as Cleanfax became the leading media publication for the floor cleaning and restoration industries, John sold the publication to NTP Media. As the magazine continued to grow and flourish, Cleanfax was purchased by Grand View Media Group and later by ISSA in 2016. Jeff Cross became the Cleanfax editor during the latter years of Downey’s oversight.
Cleanfax Today
Today, Cleanfax is the floor cleaning and disaster restoration media brand for ISSA, the leading trade association for the cleaning industry worldwide, with more than 11,500 distributors, manufacturers, manufacturer representatives, building service contractors, in-house service providers, residential cleaning, and associated service members.