About Ecovend

Diversified Solutions, LTD/LLC was founded by Chris Luxton and Ken Church of the United Kingdom and Kirk S. Hegwood of the United States. Combining their experience of over 90 years as business owners and operators, the founders began funding, designing, building, testing and implementing the EcoVend® product which is the brainchild of Chris Luxton.

EcoVend® development began in early 2000. Mr. Luxton, working with his wife Christine Luxton and her contract cleaning company Monadchoice, had a vision of a machine he could use to help Monadchoice control labour and material costs. Chris Luxton’s vision of an intelligent vending and dispensing machine began to take shape when Ken Church, a Welsh entrepreneur, introduced him to Kirk Hegwood. Using his background in Industrial Controls and System Integration, Kirk Hegwood produced a simply designed, rugged vending machine for the cleaning industry. Through the efforts and work of Inteworx.Net, USA and then Digitrol, Ltd based in Swansea, Wales, the EcoVend® reached fruition as the first and only dispensing machine in the world designed for the cleaning industry that has Real-Time Remote Reporting Capabilities via the internet and Biometric Access Control.

With the development success and the success of field trials over a two year period using the services of Monadchoice and their remote sites, Diversified Solutions recruited top management personnel both in the UK with Harry Hyde, and in the USA with Buddy Pilgrim. With this marriage of international personnel, history is repeating itself. In the early 1980’s, Ken Church, Harry Hyde and Buddy Pilgrim were part of a team that brought the world a physical fitness product known as “Gym Pac” which attained over $80 million dollars in sales in less than eighteen months!

Diversified Solutions management believes EcoVend® is the cutting edge tool that will help management of companies, not only in the cleaning industry but also a multitude of others, reduce labour cost, material cost, and through the data collection and reporting capabilities, measure their processes to a standard. Or in short, “Measure to a Standard”.