Cleaning Industry news

• FM priorities in 2025

  17-12-2024 13:10 via fmj.co.uk
  
  2024 was a year of change. The election of a new Government heralded an historic budget and plans to overhaul employment legislation. Alongside this, facilities managers are striving to meet net zero, adopt new technologies and wrestle with the challenges of managing hybrid workplaces. What do you see as the main priorities for the sector in 2025?
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  The facilities management sector has faced
  
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• Polyteck wins residential M&E deal in west London

  17-12-2024 13:06 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Construction and facilities management company, Polyteck, has been appointed from 1 Janaury 2025, to oversee all M&E at Holland Park Villas, a luxury residential property in west London.
  Under the contract terms, Polyteck will oversee all M&E, specialist maintenance and reactive services onsite, including providing a full time resident engineer.
  Polyteck will be deploying 150 items of equipment and more than 40 specialist sub-contractors to the new contract. As part o
  
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• Mitie welcomes 6,000th electric vehicle to its fleet

  17-12-2024 11:48 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Mitie has welcomed the 6,000th electric vehicle (EV) to its fleet, marking another major step in the company’s ambitious journey toward net zero, and further solidifying its position as a leader in sustainable transport.
  The vehicle was unveiled by Lilian Greenwood MP, Minister for the Future of Roads in Westminster. In her role, the Minister is at the forefront of accelerating the decarbonisation of transport in the UK, and was able to hear how, with one of the largest EV fleets in the U
  
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• BM launches AI trial at two client sites

  17-12-2024 10:23 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Workplace catering business, BM Caterers, is trialling artificial intelligence (AI) self-checkout systems at the headquarters of a logistics specialist in Crewe and a London-based law firm.
  The Deligo AI self-checkout automatically recognises items without needing to scan a barcode, which is hoped to automate routine cashier tasks and allow staff to focus on higher-value customer interactions, as well as reduce queues and product recognition errors or ‘shrinkage’.
  
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• 12,480 tonnes of carbon emissions saved through laundry and hospitality campaign

  17-12-2024 09:28 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Traditionally cleaned linens for hospitality businesses have been protected by plastic covers, during transit from the laundry and while they are stored before being used. In recent years hospitality linen services have used 100 tonnes of plastics a week to protect clean textiles – of which only about 9% is recycled. With the drive to banish single-use plastic, finding sustainable alternatives has been a key objective for the Textile Services Association (TSA), UKHospitality (UKH) and the
  
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• Enva grows circular solutions capability with two acquisitions

  17-12-2024 09:23 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Environmental services and resource recovery businesses, Enva, has successfully completed two significant acquisitions in Ireland as part of its targeted growth strategy and to further enhance its ability to create low carbon secondary materials from waste.
  Enva has expanded its soil recovery business in Ireland with the acquisition of Walshestown Restoration Limited, a leading restoration and recovery partner dedicated to the sustainable treatment of soils with recovery of sand and gravel from
  
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• Elior raises £30,000 for Alzheimer’s Society 

  17-12-2024 09:02 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Contract caterer Elior has raised £30,000 for dementia charity, Alzheimer’s Society, at its annual charity dinner and auction, held at BT One Braham in London.
  The fine dining culinary experience was curated by nine talented Elior chefs, including Bake Off: The Professionals contestants Malgorzata Kujawa and Natalie Sheridan. Each chef delivered one course of the nine-course menu. Dishes were inspired by the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) which is
  
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• Waterblade has never been easier to trial in your washrooms

  17-12-2024 08:47 via fmj.co.uk
  
  That means tangible water and energy savings are achievable in weeks. Typically, you can reduce whole building water consumption by 4%, and whole building energy usage by 1.5%. (RBS Report available on request)
  Send us your address and we send you a sample to fit (easily and quickly, see https://www.thewaterblade.com/how-to-fit/).
  We are happy to do this for free because if it fits, you are 90% certain to roll it out, and we fit most mixer taps.
  Offering a range of styles and flow rates, contact
  
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• The purpose of cleaning is cleanliness - do we achieve it?

  17-12-2024 01:00
  For three years a team of industry experts has been gathering material on cleaning ergonomics and conscious cleaning. And asking the question: are we forgetting the core objective of cleaning, which is achieving cleanliness? Does the outcome of cleaning support building users’ and cleaners’ health, or is it detrimental to it? Helge Alt from Puhastusekspert OÜ in Estonia and Tarja Valkosalo of Propuhtaus Finland tell us more.The purpose of cleaning is to remove dirt and achieve t
  
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• ABM marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities with new milestones

  17-12-2024 01:00
  To mark the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities at the beginning of December, integrated facility and aviation services provider ABM has announced a series of developments in its ongoing commitment to embedding accessibility and inclusion into its culture.Samantha Saunders, ABM's head of assisted services, has been appointed to the UK's Aviation Accessibility Task and Finish Group. Established by the UK Government, and spearheaded by Baroness Grey-Thompson - a current m
  
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