Social equity - time for respect

13th of October 2022
Social equity - time for respect

"The pandemic demonstrated the lack of decency and respect the service industry has shown workers,” a journalist for a newspaper in the US wrote recently. It has become clear Covid-19 has disproportionately harmed the most vulnerable workers, many of them cleaners. Now there are calls to promote better social equity across the world. Doug

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Everyone loves a vacuum cleaner

6th of October 2022
Everyone loves a vacuum cleaner

Vacuum cleaners catch the imagination in a way that no other cleaning machines can. But why is this the case? And how well do modern machines actually perform when one disregards all that clever marketing? Ann Laffeaty finds out.

Scrubber dryers are highly technical, impressive machines. Sweepers are weighty and business-like. And mops are

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Professional detergents industry drives a sustainable agenda

4th of October 2022
Professional detergents industry drives a sustainable agenda

A.I.S.E. is the umbrella organisation representing the European detergents and maintenance products industry. Its professional cleaning and hygiene sector manager Aisling O’Kane tells us how the sector has been a pioneer in driving sustainability.

For seven decades A.I.S.E. has guided and led the work of the European detergents industry.

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ECHA winner Incentive FM - shared vision

27th of September 2022
ECHA winner Incentive FM - shared vision

Sunshine and lollipops helped Incentive FM to win the 2022 European Cleaning & Hygiene award for Excellence in Client-Contractor Partnerships. But the real key to the company’s success lay in having a single shared vision with its client.

What does the term “soft services” actually mean? To most of us it refers to

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ECHA winner Gausium - innovate to disrupt

26th of September 2022
ECHA winner Gausium - innovate to disrupt

Gausium entered the European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards for the first time in 2022. But the company’s achievement in being a joint winner of the Technological Innovation of the Year Award is just the beginning, says global business development director Peter Kwestro.

The Scrubber 50 Pro from Gausium is said to offer a feature that has

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ECHA winner Dominic Ponniah - leading change

23rd of September 2022
ECHA winner Dominic Ponniah - leading change

Environmental innovation, fair pay and better business – this is the ethos that helped Dominic Ponniah, ceo and co-founder of Cleanology, to win the Leader of the Year award. He says winning was right up there in his top five career highlights.

Cleanology in the UK has come a long way since its launch in 1999 as a mother-and son operation

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