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Let’s talk about the importance of hygiene
18th of January 2023
A.I.S.E. is the umbrella organisation representing the European detergents and maintenance products industry. Aisling O’Kane talks about the importance of hygiene with Thomas Rauch, director of IHO (the German industry association for hygiene and surface disinfection) and chair of A.I.S.E.‘s Professional Cleaning & Hygiene Steering
Why has profit become a dirty word?
5th of January 2023
Why has ‘profit’ become a dirty word? Could it be because the profit motive is all too easily seduced by the lustful influences of ‘greed’ or is that just how we perceive it? Hartley Milner explores our conflicted relationship with monetary gain in the context of the energy crisis.
There is a jolly little game people like to
Report from a Mop Bucket revisited
28th of December 2022
Lotte Printz on a Swedish cleaner and author, Maja Ekelöf, whose biography has just been released.
”Ugh! Most people would probably say when they think about working as a cleaner. It’s a dull word. You can almost sense the smell of dust and dirty water. You also sense the back pains and the chapped hands. This is a low-income
End of an era as a new king reigns
23rd of December 2022
UK reporter Lynn Webster reflects on the period of mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The UK has recently experienced a momentous event as we mourn the passing of our sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II. It was reported around 5.1 billion watched her funeral service worldwide, that is around 64 per cent of the world population.
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Seizing new opportunities
22nd of December 2022
Anna Garbagna in Italy on a new national plan for the industry’s recovery being spearheaded by ANIP.
“PNRR e Servizi Industriali, imprese e opportunità” (PNRR and Industrial Services, companies and opportunities). That was the title of the webinar organised in Rome by national cleaning company association
An everyday cleaning case study
21st of December 2022
Katja Scholz in Germany brings us a cleaning case study from her recent visit to an alpaca farm.
During an extended trip this summer, I came across an alpaca farm. It had rained very hard that day, so I sat with a coffee in the comfortable farm shop and looked out at the almost 60-strong herd of alpacas which had found their home here. The farm
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