Cleaning Industry news

• Tork Natural Colour products combine softness with sustainability

  23-02-2024 13:02 via chtmag.com
  
  New from Tork is a range of washroom tissue products made from 100 per cent recycled fibres.
  The toilet paper and hand towels in the Tork Natural Colour range have a natural, light brown hue which helps to demonstrate a customer’s sustainability values to employees, guests and visitors.
  And besides being highly sustainable, the new products are also significantly softer to the touch than traditional recycled washroom tissue.
  Tork has long been a manufacturer of products made from office pa
  
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• Andy Gregory takes up MD role at EcoTech

  23-02-2024 12:53 via chtmag.com
  
  Coventry-based cleaning product manufacturer EcoTech (Europe) Ltd has appointed a new managing director to spearhead its ambitious growth plans.
  Taking the reins is Andy Gregory who steps up from the role of Finance Director which he has held since May of last year.
  Gregory will oversee all areas of the business which provides cleaning products across a broad spectrum of sectors, from janitorial, healthcare and food processing through to industrial applications.
  Having graduated in accounta
  
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• Ashton Gate nets sustainability goals with Veolia

  23-02-2024 12:41 via chtmag.com
  
  Ashton Gate, home of Bristol City Football and Bristol Bears, has appointed Veolia as the stadium’s new recycling and waste contractor.
  The one-year contract will see Veolia manage all waste stream collections for Ashton Gate Stadium, Robins High Performance Centre and Bristol Bears High Performance Centre.
  Using the expertise gained from serving a number of key sporting venues, Veolia will provide a proactive, reliable service seven days a week, with zero waste going to landfill treatment
  
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• ISS and multinational manufacturer extend global full-service partnership

  23-02-2024 12:10 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The workplace experience and facility management company has extended an existing full-service partnership agreement with a multinational manufacturing customer, encompassing headquarters, offices and manufacturing locations in many countries around the world.
  ISS worked with the customer in various countries, until this partnership was expanded to a global one in 2019.
  More than 3,000 ISS on-site employees are engaged on the contract which now runs until 31 December 2026 with an annual value o
  
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• Sodexo Live! and Nestlé Professional to host Choose Hospitality Pledge stadia career workshops

  23-02-2024 11:43 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Sodexo Live! has teamed up with the Choose Hospitality Pledge, and its co-founder Nestlé Professional, to host three mass career workshops at Newcastle United’s St. James’ Park, Brighton & Hove Albion FC’s American Express Stadium and Everton FC’s Goodison Park.
  The Choose Hospitality Pledge workshops will take place during the summer term, engaging up to 200 secondary school pupils across each of the three stadia locations.
  The Choose Hospitality Pledge was cr
  
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• WINT joins the Mayor of London’s exclusive Grow London Global programme, setting stage for rapid international acceleration

  23-02-2024 11:16 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The leading provider of AI-powered water management solutions has been accepted to the esteemed UK-based program designed to support innovative scale-up companies as they expand to new markets around the world
  WINT Water Intelligence, a leader in water management and leak-prevention solutions for construction, commercial, residential and industrial applications, has been named as part of the Grow London Global Cohort 3 – a prestigious programme supporting innovative startups as they scale
  
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• What do we mean when we talk about AI?

  23-02-2024 11:02 via fmj.co.uk
  
  With recent AI developments, there are a whole host of possibilities for the Facilities Management industry.
  Over the last year, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the most prominent topic across mainstream and facilities management (FM) media. The drastic increase in attention makes it easy to view AI as a relatively new concept, but this is not entirely true.
  Automation, and its successor, AI, have been around significantly longer than is often suggested. The main driver of this spike in
  
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• Government launches Occupational Health Taskforce to tackle in-work sickness

  23-02-2024 10:44 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Businesses will be urged to tackle in-work sickness and stop people falling out the workforce, following the appointment of Dame Carol Black as the Government’s new Occupational Health Tsar.Dame Carol, who has decades of experience in medicine and policy advisory while having chaired multiple government reviews, will head up a Taskforce that will produce a voluntary occupational health framework for businesses – which will include setting out minimum levels of occupational health ne
  
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• Technology agreement to accelerate robotic floor cleaning innovation

  23-02-2024 10:41 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Tennant Company and Brain Corp have jointly announced an exclusive technology agreement to accelerate the development and adoption of the next generation of robots in the floor cleaning industry.
  
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• Report sets out next steps following Council’s four-day week trial, despite Government calls for the trial to end

  23-02-2024 10:11 via fmj.co.uk
  
  South Cambridgeshire District Council’s four-day week trial has seen £434,000 less spent on agency staff covering hard to fill roles, according to a new report.
  This has been achieved by filling 10 permanent roles that the Council previously struggled to recruit to – particularly in the Planning Service, where the private sector pays more. This has led to the reduction in spending because directly employing staff in permanent roles is much more cost effective than hiring agency
  
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• Automatic door servicing solutions from TORMAX

  23-02-2024 09:13 via fmj.co.uk
  
  With wet and windy weeks ahead, it is important to regularly service your automatic entrance system to ensure it continues working at optimum efficiency, whatever the weather throws at it.
  With a nationwide team of in-house trained engineers, TORMAX can deliver a full service and maintenance programme, or one-off emergency repairs, for almost any automatic door.
  “At this time of the year it is especially important to schedule a service call to make sure your automatic door remains legal,
  
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• Concerns about germs on floors prompts more people to adopt ‘shoes off’ rule

  23-02-2024 01:00
  Guests attending dinner gatherings and house parties are increasingly being asked to leave their shoes at the door.A heightened awareness of germs following the pandemic is thought to be one of the reasons behind the trend. Young people in particular are adopting the 'shoes off' rule as they follow the lead of Asian and Scandinavian cultures.Opinion is divided about the need for taking off one's shoes in the house, however.A study carried out at the University of Arizona by professor of microbio
  
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