ECJ EUROPEAN Cleaning Journal

Dussmann Austria has reported a year of continued investment, innovation and structural change in 2025, while maintaining broadly stable sales in a persistently difficult market. Gross sales in Austria came in at almost €200 million, with around 4,200 employees, as the Dussmann Group lifted consolidated sales by 3.8 per cent to €3.4 billion.

The Austrian subsidiary said the year was shaped by robotics projects in healthcare, digitisation of internal processes and a stronger focus on building technology. It also restructured its technical offer into a separate division with its own management, underlining the growing strategic importance of the area within its facility management portfolio.

Peter Edelmayer, CEO of Dussmann Austria, said the company had deliberately prioritised digitalisation, robotics and structural optimisation as part of a growth-oriented agenda. He said the slight fall in sales in 2025 should be viewed against a backdrop of a stagnating market and wider economic pressure, adding that the business remained a reliable constant in the Austrian FM sector.

Dussmann Austria, founded in 1968, said it continued to secure long-standing client relationships while also winning new contracts, including work for an internationally active petroleum refining company. Since 2024, it has also been delivering integrated facility management for the Bosch Group across 41 properties in Austria, Italy and Switzerland, covering cleaning, security and building technology.

In food services, the business expanded its sustainable "Planet! Based" menu line. It also continued using cleaning robots and dry ice cleaning, with the former increasingly seen as a growth driver in Austria's commercial cleaning machinery market.

Edelmayer said the company's experience with digitisation and robotics was now helping to shape the sector, citing projects at Vienna General Hospital and LKH - Univ. Klinikum Graz as proof that robotic cleaning is becoming part of everyday operations rather than a short-term experiment.