Cleaning Industry news

• Northwood on course to plant 1000 trees by the end of 2023

  01-11-2023 13:35 via chtmag.com
  
  With National Tree Week about to take place from 25 November to 2 December, Northwood Hygiene Products has announced that it has planted more than 800 trees in UK towns and cities this year.
  Northwood teamed up with Trees for Cities – the only UK charity to plant trees in towns and cities in the UK and around the world – earlier this year and set a target to plant 500 trees in 12 months. Now, the Telford-based firm has smashed its target and planted 809 trees in just nine months.
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• Carlisle celebrates 23 years at Spurs

  01-11-2023 12:40 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Carlisle Support Services is celebrating 23 years of continued service with Tottenham Hotspur, whose stadium was recently awarded the World Football Summit’s Best Venue Award and is home to the world renowned Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, as well as NFL, and countless other world class concerts and leisure events.
  Having delivered staffing and stewarding solutions to White Hart Lane for 18 years, Carlisle Support Services was awarded full security oversight across the Tottenham Hotspur
  
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• GEZE UK celebrates 160 years with bubbles, bunting and balloons

  01-11-2023 11:27 via fmj.co.uk
  
  GEZE, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of innovative and modern door, window and safety technology has been celebrating 160 years in business across all of its subsidiaries around the world throughout 2023.At GEZE UK we invited all colleagues across our 8 offices nationwide to join in the celebration and have some fun. Each office was decorated with bunting and balloons and staff were sent cakes and biscuits iced with GEZE 160 years as well as bubbles to blow and other goodies.
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• AI will have the ‘biggest impact’ on physical security operations over the next five years

  01-11-2023 09:37 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Nine in 10 (90 per cent) of Chief Security Officers at large, global businesses operating in the UK agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have the biggest impact on physical security operations over the next five years.
  The finding comes from G4S’s first ever ‘World Security Report’ – a survey of 1,775 CSOs from 30 countries with total revenue of more than $20 trillion USD.
  A third (33 per cent) of UK CSOs said AI and machine learning is the technological advanceme
  
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• Clapped in the clink for charity – Jim Melvin makes bail

  01-11-2023 09:01 via chtmag.com
  
  The Master of The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners, Jim Melvin, just about scraped through his ‘brutal’ incarceration for charity at the annual fundraising event ‘Jailed and Bailed’. This is a fundraising event organised by various Livery Companies in London, where Livery Masters are “arrested” and “jailed” for a short period of time, before being “bailed out” by their colleagues and friends.
  The bail money raised is donated
  
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• Autonomous window cleaning robot Ozmo is coming to London

  01-11-2023 08:40 via chtmag.com
  
  Skyline Robotics has announced a partnership with Principle Cleaning Services (Principle) that will bring the award-winning, window cleaning Ozmo robot to the London skyline.
  Principle, a market leader in providing corporate, commercial cleaning in London, will be the exclusive provider of Ozmo in the Capital and will start planning an operational rollout for the London market, transforming Principle’s window cleaning offering.
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• New partnership aims to ‘revolutionise’ window cleaning in London

  01-11-2023 08:26 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Skyline Robotics and Principle Cleaning Services have joined forces to bring autonomous window cleaning robots to London.
  Principle, a market leader in providing corporate, commercial cleaning in London, will be the exclusive provider of Skyline Robotics’ flagship window cleaning robot ‘Ozmo’ and will start planning an operational rollout across the Capital, which will transform its window cleaning offering.
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• GPA submits planning application for Weather Centre HQ

  01-11-2023 08:19 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The Government Property Agency (GPA) has submitted a planning application to Wokingham Borough Council for a European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) at the University of Reading.
  If successful, the new-state of-the-art headquarters will create the largest cluster of weather and climate research and operational forecasting facilities in the world alongside the University’s Department of Meteorology.
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• Somerset Council appoints Kier for £225m maintenance deal

  01-11-2023 08:08 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Kier has secured a £225 million contract with Somerset Council to deliver core maintenance services across its entire road network.
  The eight-year contract, which comes with an opportunity to extend for a further four years, will commence 1 April 2024, and covers key maintenance works – including road repairs, drainage, verge cutting and winter service, such as gritting and other emergency functions in adverse weather.
  The contract award is part of the council’s focus on refres
  
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• Integral signs covenant supporting the Armed Forces community

  01-11-2023 08:02 via fmj.co.uk
  
  UK building services and engineering firm, Integral, has signed the Armed Forces Covenant, a pledge that those who serve or have served in the armed forces and their families will be treated fairly in society.
  The covenant focuses on helping members of the armed forces community have the same access to government, commercial services, and employment opportunities as any other citizen, including education and family well-being, finding a home, starting a new career, access to healthcare, fin
  
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• Sales of cleaning robots up in professional and domestic markets

  01-11-2023 01:00
  Sales of robots for professional cleaning applications grew by eight per cent in 2022, according to the International Federation of Robotics.This equated to almost 6,900 units being sold, with most of them dedicated to floor cleaning. And almost 4.9 million household cleaning and vacuuming robots were sold in the domestic market during the same year.Robot sales were also up in the hospitality and agricultural sectors as companies struggling with staff shortages continued to turn to automation."T
  
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