If you think the Space Needle in Seattle looks cleaner these days, you’re right. The German corporation Karcher gave it a good scrubbing as part of its program of corporate giving. The company,christian louboutin round toe pumps, which has cleaned some of the worlds most famous structures, including the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio De Janeiro and the presidents’ faces on Mount Rushmore, is giving back as a way of saying thank you for the success it’s had in recent years.
Karcher’s program is just one of many who are setting an example of corporate philanthropy. Pfizer Corporation regularly sends its employees to work for non-profit groups around the world. Federal Express lends a fleet of trucks to non-profits as well.
“Its great publicity and good marketing for us”, say’s Hartmut Jenner of Karcher Corporation. “But we also have learned things that have improved our business”. The use of dry ice in Romania to remove paint from a cast-iron bridge or the soft blasting system developed to clean the colonnade at the Vatican are all new techniques the company has added to their line of cleaning methods as a result of the non-profit work.
Karcher negotiated with the Vatican for two years before beginning a major project that took nine months to complete. This was one of the company’s most extensive pro bono cleaning projects to date; however corporate officials refuse to discuss the final costs associated with the completed project.
The Mount Rushmore project was also a huge undertaking because of the grand scale of the carvings and its rural setting. For these same reasons, it’s one of the philanthropic projects that the company is most proud of. When the company approached the National Parks Service about the cleaning, they had had the project on the books for some time but there just wasn’t enough funding to complete the badly needed cleaning that the delicate carvings would require.
The faces on Mount Rushmore were carved from 1927 to 1941 and had never before been properly cleaned. The National Parks Service was very pleased by the offer from Karcher Corporation to clean the monument free of charge. Otherwise the bill for the restoration would have cost the US taxpayers in the tens of millions.
No chemicals were allowed to be used in the cleaning of the faces. The only things used to clean the monument were hot water and pressure washing. The water had to be pumped 300 ft. up the mountain to a basin and then piped to the workers doing the cleaning. Further complicating matters, the park remained open during the entire process.
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