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EFCI Trend Report: The European Cleaning Industry 1995-2016
18th of September 2019
The EFCI recently published a Trend Report entitled The European Cleaning Industry 1995-2016. This 38-page statistical document gathers Eurostat’s most recent data (NACE 81.2) and builds on historical EFCI’s surveys. It presents the evolution of the cleaning industry from different angles, between 1995 and 2016.
The Trend Report was
The two-sided mop market
17th of September 2019
‘Smart mopping’ has become the new watchword as companies increasingly seek to develop sophisticated systems that gather data and monitor water and chemical use. But is there still a place for the traditional, manual mop as well? Ann Laffeaty looks at both sides of the mopping market in a bid to discover which way it is heading.
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Business models of the future
17th of September 2019
John Griep from VSR, ECJ’s correspondent in the Netherlands, tells us two interesting stories of businesses becoming involved in circular economy activities.
Are cleaning service providers the raw material managers of the future? If you asked two Dutch cleaning entrepreneurs, they’d say yes. Take WEPA. They furnish toilet areas and
Clean Hospitals - transforming patient safety. A White Paper
17th of September 2019
Clean Hospitals®: transforming patient safety from an idea to an international collaborative movement
Alexandra Peters1, Jonathan A. Otter2, Pierre Parneix3, Andreea Moldovan4, Ermira Tartari1, Marianne Kemmer5, Andreas Voss6, Didier Pittet1
1Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva
Plenty of job prospects in French cleaning sector
16th of September 2019
Christian Bouzols reports from France on how the professional cleaning sector is tackling its manpower shortage by setting up a number of new training schemes.
It’s been known for some time that the industrial cleaning sector in France lacks manpower and is currently recruiting in a big way.
Given this situation, the French cleaning
Healthy growth for Italian cleaning sector
16th of September 2019
Anna Garbagna in Italy reports on positive data from the country’s cleaning sector manufacturers.
The market is healthy and growing in Italy and for exports, dynamic and successful. This is the view of the professional cleaning sector emerging from the annual survey conducted by AfidampFAB (Association of Italian Manufacturers of Cleaning
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