Pioneered
in 1897, rubber brooms and brushware have evolved
to become the benchmark of brushware today. The
first rubber brush was designed in 1897 by Frank
Downing Gould, of Port Richmond, New York, USA.
Little did he know at the time that the rubber
broom
would revolutionize the way we clean today.
Rubber
brooms were widely acknowledged for their durability
and hygienic characteristics as opposed to conventional
brushware. As early as 1959 the rubber broom became
the standard cleaning tool for hairdressing salons all
over the world. The first classical rubberbroom was
patented by Vincent La Posta in France in 1959.
During
the 1980`s, several design improvements were incorporated
that made rubber brooms available to the general public. Their
wet and dry and multipurpose applications became an instant
success.
In
1993 Sweepa pioneered the successful introduction of rubber
brooms in the public domain from their head office in the
Netherlands. Sweepa is still today acknowledged as one of
the best demonstration articles in the world because it actually
works and does exactly what it claims to do.
Sweepa
owners world-wide are the best ambassadors to this wonderful
product. Developments and improvements over the years have
resulted in a wide range of Sweepa cleaning tools that vaguely
represent the first models.
Made
with Natural Rubber:
Since the discovery of vulcanization of rubber in the early
1900´s, it has been the leader of material for production
of an array of technical products and household products
requiring exceptional qualities of durability and elasticity.
Natural rubber is tapped from rubber wood plantations especially
planted for this purpose.
Rubber
today is used extensively in household, commercial and industrial
products. The durability and elasticity is well demonstrated
by the use of rubber in vehicle tyres. Natural rubber is tapped
from rubber trees in special purpose plantations. It is therefore
an environmentally safe and sound process.
Virgin
crepe natural rubber is used as the base material in production
of the Sweepa broom. The formulation has been specially developed
to ensure quality and durability features. A wide variety
of color and fragranced articles are available. Sweepa mixes
and formulates its own rubber requirements in the specialized
designated mixing mills.