


“When this happened, the industry went into a supply-chain seizure. Milford-based EBP Supply Solutions, a wholesale distributor of supplies to the cleaning and food-service industries, also navigated major changes at the beginning of the pandemic. “Literally, we would swing off one supplier onto a backup supplier - in order to avoid whether it was raw-materials shortages or worker shortages or what have you - only to then get lined up with a backup supplier and have that fall through because they had a sudden case of COVID.” “There were supply-chain challenges that were changing daily,” Kane said. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Goodway never stopped operating during the pandemic because, as a manufacturer, it was deemed an essential business by the state government. Its products include tube-cleaning systems, industrial vacuums, cooling-tower maintenance systems, dry-steam sanitation solutions, coil-cleaning products and hose-and-pipe cleaning systems. The pandemic prompted abrupt changes in how Goodway interacted with suppliers and customers, as it dealt with a rush of business resulting from the COVID-19-triggered focus on hygiene. “When I look at where we are today, it’s with much more strategic initiative.” Facing disruption “Where we sit today is with an entirely different strategy than on this day last year,” Tim Kane, CEO of Goodway Technologies, a Stamford-based manufacturer of industrial maintenance products, said in an interview. More than a year after the pandemic spread to New England, a number of Connecticut-based companies that provide cleaning products and services said that they are still seeing robust demand, a trend that is spurring new products and more hires.
