Italian food hygiene project

2nd of June 2017
Italian food hygiene project

Anna Garbagna reports from a recent tourism exhibition in Milan, attended by Afidamp.

Cleaning industry association Afidamp was present recently at  BIT tourism exhibition in Milan. Distributors from Afidamp’s world were in fact among the key players on the stand of APCI, the Professional Association of Italian Chefs, with the role of

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Cleaning Paris’ transport network

2nd of June 2017
Cleaning Paris’ transport network

Cleaning contracts for the entire Paris transport network are worth €80 million a year, reports French correspondent Christian Bouzols.

Cleaning operations for the whole RATP network (tubes, busses, trams and their stations) in Paris represent a market worth €80 million a year. This is the money required for the maintenance of 1.3

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Collective agreements of the future

2nd of June 2017
Collective agreements of the future

Jacco Vonhof, chairman of the Dutch Association of Cleaning Research (VSR), reports on negotiations on working conditions in the Netherlands.

At the beginning of this year employers and employees in the Dutch cleaning sector undertook renewed negotiations on working conditions. Agreements on wages, bonuses, overtime payment, probation or pension

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Cutting cleaning hours in Swedish hospitals

31st of May 2017
Cutting cleaning hours in Swedish hospitals

A pilot study is giving Swedish hospital cleaners shorter working hours for a year-and-a-half. This report from Scandinavian correspondent Lotte Printz.

Playing football or doing exercise workouts has a positive impact on health. That’s hardly a surprise. But a recent study carried out by the Danish National Research Centre for the Working

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Key industry trends in Germany

31st of May 2017
Key industry trends in Germany

German reporter Alexandra Lachner asked Dr Frederik King, manager at cleaning systems association VDMA, about future trends.

Whether it’s statistics for floor cleaning machines, industry analyses for cleaning systems or international committee work, the VDMA cleaning systems association represents over 40 members and is in touch with the

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Opportunities for innovation - enter the European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards 2017

31st of May 2017
Opportunities for innovation - enter the European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards 2017

Sandra Sieber, professor at IESE Business School University of Navarra, writes for ECJ. Sieber was the keynote speaker at the inaugural European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards in Barcelona last September.

If you get some of the leading cleaning companies from across Europe together in a room and ask them about the use of technology in their

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