Cleaning Industry news

• Mitie increases full year guidance

  17-11-2022 14:38 via fmj.co.uk
  Mitie’s performance for for the six month period ending 30 September 2022 has been strong, according to the Group’s half year results.
  The Group says revenue was £1,923 million as a result of new contract wins and and recent acquisitions which more than offset the boost in the same period last year from short-term Covid-related contracts (H1 FY22: £1,912 million). A total contract value of £1.5 billion has been added during H1, with renewal rates over 90 per cent an
  
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• New washroom soap dispenser made from 70% recovered coastal plastic is launching

  17-11-2022 13:46 via chtmag.com
  SC Johnson Professional is launching a new washroom soap dispenser made from recovered coastal plastic.
  The SCJ Professional® Proline WAVE 1 litre washroom soap dispenser is made from 70 per cent recovered coastal plastic, which is post-consumer recycled waste plastic collected on land within 31 miles of an ocean so that it does not reach oceans or landfills. Each SCJ Professional® Proline WAVE dispenser is the equivalent of 16 x 500ml waste plastic bottles that have been prevented from
  
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• Atlas acquires cleaning and support services firm

  17-11-2022 13:07 via chtmag.com
  Atlas FM is joining forces with the cleaning and support services business Lewis & Graves Partnership (L&G). Founded in 1985, L&G has grown year-on-year from a small business to have an annual turnover of £20 million.
  Based in Essex, L&G employs 1,300 people at 200 sites in London and the Home Counties. It is a specialist in the education sector and also holds contracts with important organisations in the City of London and in local government. Notable clients include Wands
  
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• Atlas strengthens its FM offering with Lewis & Graves acquisition

  17-11-2022 11:56 via fmj.co.uk
  Atlas FM has announced that it is joining forces with the cleaning and support services business Lewis & Graves Partnership (L&G).
  The deal is part of Atlas’ strategy to deepen its total FM offering to more clients, through a combination of organic growth and the acquiring of high quality and reputationally strong businesses, and follows Atlas’ recent acquisition of one of London’s leading cleaning companies, City West Support services.
  Founded in 1985, Essex-based L&am
  
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• The management of smoke vents or AOVs

  17-11-2022 11:26 via fmj.co.uk
  Conor Logan, Colt’s Technical Director, with a guide to maintaining aov (automatic opening vent) maintenance
  An ‘AOV’ or ‘Automatic Opening Vent’ is a smoke or fire vent that will open and close automatically when triggered by a control system to help vent smoke or heat out of a building in the event of a fire.
  As such, they are considered life safety systems and form an extremely important part of a building’s fire safety strategy. They are predominantly ins
  
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• ISS signs industry-first certified Vested agreement

  17-11-2022 10:51 via fmj.co.uk
  ISS and LeasePlan, a global leader in Car-as-a-Service, have signed an international Vested agreement for next generation fleet management.
  The Vested way of working revolutionises and transforms the traditional transactional buyer-supplier relationship and according to ISS will be crucial in driving enhanced sustainability, safety and operational outcomes for both companies.
  ISS currently leases around 20,000 vehicles on a global scale, emitting 60,000 tons greenhouse gas emissions a year (whi
  
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• New soap dispenser made from 'recovered coastal plastic'

  17-11-2022 10:30 via cleaningmag.com
  SC Johnson Professional is launching a new washroom soap dispenser made from recovered coastal plastic.
  
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• Moneypenny creates new role to boost ESG priorities

  17-11-2022 10:18 via fmj.co.uk
  Outsourced communications provider, Moneypenny, has appointed Sophie Hughes-Saunier to the newly created role of ESG Coordinator.
  Hughes-Saunier has been at Moneypenny since February 2014, working in the SME clients team. She has a particularly strong passion for environmental matters and her new appointment will see her encompass activities relating to ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance).
  Speaking about her new role Hughes-Saunier said: “I love the fact that this new role allows me
  
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• SBFM commits to creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace

  17-11-2022 09:56 via fmj.co.uk
  Soft services FM provider, SBFM, has signed the Race at Work Charter, which encourages businesses to commit to improving equal opportunities for Black, Asian, Mixed Race and ethnically diverse employees in the UK, through the community.
  The Race at Work Charter builds on the findings from BITC’s 2021 Race at Work Survey, which found that while 76 per cent of employers said that race recruitment and progression was a priority, only 46 per cent had set targets to improve the racial diversity
  
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• Bidvest Noonan hires new MD for Northern Ireland

  17-11-2022 09:41 via fmj.co.uk
  Bidvest Noonan has appointed Jim O’Hagan as Managing Director of its business in Northern Ireland.
  O’Hagan is a highly accomplished senior executive with more than 20 years of senior leadership experience. He has a track-record of guiding high-performance teams, bringing success to many market-leading brands.
  This appointment signals Bidvest Noonan’s continued commitment to the Northern Irish market and underlines its ambition for its market-leading business in the region.
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• Focussing on design for recycling and repurposing textile flooring waste

  17-11-2022 09:27 via fmj.co.uk
  Carpet Recycling UK is an independent not for profit membership association working with the supply chain for textile flooring. We help foster strategic collaborations and networking to develop viable solutions for carpet and other textile flooring waste such as carpet tiles, rugs and underlay.
  Our membership includes manufacturers Balsan, Betap, Brintons, Condor Group, Cormar, ege, Furlong Flooring, Gradus, Headlam Group, IVC Commercial, Likewise Floors, Milliken, Modulyss, Rawson Carpet Soluti
  
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• Need for water savings set to drive the smart toilet market: report

  17-11-2022 01:00
  An increasing demand for water-saving technology is expected to drive growth in the global smart toilet market, according to a Zion Market Research study.Water conservation is one of the main goals of smart toilet manufacturers, claims the study. Features such as automatic flushing and the ability to detect the amount of water needed for each flush are said to reduce water consumption when compared with conventional toilets.Smart toilets also often incorporate artificial flushing noises to mask
  
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• ECHA winner LionsBot - empowering cleaners

  17-11-2022 01:00
  Deploying a robot army used to be the stuff of computer games. But LionsBot has made this eminently achievable – and has won itself a European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards Technological Innovation of the Year award in the process.Robots aim to make light work of cleaning. They take away the heavy lifting and allow human operators to concentrate instead on more detailed work and intricate tasks But the problem is, every robot needs a human being to control it. Or at least they used to do.E
  
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