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Cleaning - vital for reputation
14th of March 2017
Italy correspondent Anna Garbagna reports from a new cleaning exhibition in Sicily at the end of 2016.
The round table ‘Cleaning Companies: Which Future? Market, Regulations and Work’ was organised by AIS, the Association of Service Companies of Sicily and took place at the end of last year during the exhibition Pulire Mediterraneo.
A freezing success
13th of March 2017
Cryoservice, a family business near Belfort in France, has increased its turnover two-fold in the past six years. It uses a technology which responds to the environmental requirements of a number of industrial companies. Christian Bouzols reports.
When Béatrice Cuenin launched Cryoservice in eastern France in 2005, there was
A year of contradictions
13th of March 2017
Latest trends in the Russian cleaning market, from Oleg Popov of Cristanval Cleaning.
For the Russian cleaning market, the second year of the third crisis wave has come to an end. We’ve undergone serious downturns in 1998 and 2008 and now we’re going through another one. To say that Russian entrepreneurs have been hardened is an
Greece’s cleaning sector - challenges and opportunities
13th of March 2017
Anthi Iliopoulou is general manager of Alter Ego, one of the largest integrated facility management providers in Greece. With its headquarters in Athens, Alter Ego has over 800 employees and provides services throughout the country. It has 68 major Greek and multinational businesses among its clients and is a subsidiary of the European Reliance
Waste management partner
10th of March 2017
Jacco Vonhof, chairman of the Association of Cleaning Research (VSR) is the new Dutch reporter for ECJ. He explores how cleaning companies can add value in this age of robotisation and digitisation.
The world is changing and so is the cleaning industry. Robots are taking over tasks and digitisation allows those working in the industry to be
Cleaning the cleanroom
10th of March 2017
How do you keep the cleanest places in the world clean? German reporter Alexandra Lachner finds out.
Although cleanrooms were for many years intended for sectors such as pharmacy or space technology, they have now become commonplace in a wide range of industries. “The driving force is mainly the consumer”, explains Frank Duvernell,
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