Innovative Cleaning Products
Hyosung America Utilizes KICTeam’s Industry Expertise for Innovative Cleaning Products
KICTeam, Inc. is pleased to announce a collaboration with Hyosung America, the world's leading cash management and payments platform service provider, to provide performance improvement cleaning kits for Hyosung's cash management equipment family.
“We’re pleased to be able to offer our customers with a solution to maintain Hyosung’s accurate, high-speed Cash Recyclers performance,” states Ryan Loebs, Director, Cash Recycler Products at Hyosung America.
“The cleaning kit, designed in partnership with KICTeam, delivers a simple, safe, and effective way to routinely remove disruptive buildup that accumulates with normal operation.”
Ken Pedersen, Vice President of Business Development for KICTeam, Inc., says, “We’re excited for the opportunity to support Hyosung and their initiatives with industry leading products that improve performance and maintain the customer experience of critical business technology.”
Cleaning kits are currently available for Hyosung’s MS500 and MS500S family of cash recyclers which utilize KICTeam’s proprietary Waffletechnology® cleaning cards and MiracleMagic® cleaning solution.
Moving forward, KICTeam will continue to engineer innovative cleaning solutions for Hyosung’s ever-expanding portfolio of products.
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The roots of KIC took hold way back in 1935. At that time, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine was an important center for shoe manufacturing in the US. Making shoes and boots required specialized leather stamping and forming expertise to craft the parts (called Counters) that comfortably hugged your heels to keep your shoes from slipping off your feet.
Twin City Counter Company was formed to make those parts and they did so for many decades. Major customers have included the US Army, L.L. Bean, and Red Wing. Those stamped and formed leather parts are still made today in Maine by a division of KIC.
Around the1950’s the US shoe industry was under pressure, as the shift towards lower cost and plastic heel parts and overseas production took hold. The leaders of the company then were looking beyond shoes for an application where they could use their expertise and equipment for stamping and forming. They found new opportunities related to cosmetics applicators, lamp shades, and various felt pads.
By the mid 1990’s new technology was introduced to help retailers process increasingly popular credit card transactions, and a need for cleaning cards emerged to clear the swipe channels and magnetic heads of the readers.
The lure of these new markets was strong growth potential, so two related companies were acquired – KIC (Keep it Clean) Products in New Hampshire, and CleanTeam in California. All these operations were combined to create the new corporation, KICTeam Inc, in 1997.
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