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Planet-conscious design
23rd of June 2025
More than half the world’s biggest and most powerful companies have set a target to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. To achieve that, businesses must address their entire environmental footprint.
Products and hygiene tools designed with those goals in mind can reduce a cleaning or FM company’s overall climate impact.
Rise of specialist qualifications
16th of June 2025
The industry is seeing an increase in more specialist aspects, reports Anna Garbagna from Italy.
The Pandemic has caused a widespread diffusion of sanitisation systems for domestic and working environments, as well as creating the need to establish benchmarks to assess the effectiveness and safety of indoor sanitisation methods.
This situation
Business enters the space race
13th of June 2025
Mega-rich entrepreneurs are seizing lucrative opportunities to boldly go where only government agencies with hefty budgets have gone before … and beyond. Hartley Milner explores the burgeoning commercial space industry, its trailblazers, triumphs and troughs.
As dawn breaks over California’s Mojave airport, White Knight, a
Solar panel cleaning niche
11th of June 2025
ECJ’s Christian Bouzols on a new cleaning sector that’s booming in France - solar panels.
The solar panel cleaning sector is booming, fuelled by the increase in photovoltaic installations in France. Thanks to some state subsidies (incentives, reduced VAT rate) and current regulations, this niche market is attracting more and more
Daytime cleaning study published
6th of June 2025
As Katja Scholz in Germany reports, the topic of daytime cleaning is being widely discussed.
Daytime cleaning is a topic which crops up increasingly in questionnaires, discussions and studies relating to the contract cleaning sector – and rightly so, as there are numerous advantages as well as reservations to consider and it is certainly an
A little imagination needed?
2nd of June 2025
Lynn Webster in the UK on how the challenges resulting from unavoidable rising costs can be met.
The beginning of April sparked some considerable activity in the UK with the increase in minimum wage to £12.21 (€14.37) per hour but more so with the most dramatic hike in employers’ national insurance contributions. The main change
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