Cleaning Industry news

• Positive outlook for FM finds CBRE’s Top Facilities Management Trends for 2025 report

  18-02-2025 14:51 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The facilities management industry will continue to thrive in 2025 by embracing big data, human-centric design, and digital transformation, according to the Trends in Facilities Management for 2025 report from CBRE.
  The report delves into the high-level drivers reshaping the FM industry, with an analysis of nine trends:
  1) AI-optimised facilities management
  2) Connected FM technologies
  3) The data and insight economy
  4) Human-centred workplace strategy
  5) Simplification of ESG
  6) Cost savings
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• Acquisition sees Cardo Group expand its presence in Scotland

  18-02-2025 14:19 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Cardo Group, a provider of building maintenance services to social housing providers and public bodies has acquired property maintenance services specialist, Rodgers & Johnston Ltd (R&J), based in Holytown, North Lanarkshire.
  This is the group’s second acquisition of 2025 in Scotland and marks another significant step in Cardo’s broader strategy to expand its footprint across the UK.
  Working with housing associations, local authorities, and public sector clients across Scotla
  
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• Gloves found to harbour four times more biological matter than a toilet seat

  18-02-2025 13:01 via chtmag.com
  
  From cycling gloves to woollen mittens, swabbing research by Initial Washroom Hygiene discovers that gloves used to keep hands warm in the winter could harbour FOUR TIMES more biological life than a toilet seat
  Keeping our hands toasty warm during colder weather could expose Brits’ hands to potentially high levels of microbial contamination (germs). New research, based on real-world swabbing tests, has found that many gloves exceed what hygiene experts consider to be within the normal* ran
  
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• Rentokil Pest Control witnesses an increase in reported rodent activity

  18-02-2025 12:22 via chtmag.com
  
  The latest data from Rentokil Pest Control reveals a sharp rise in reported rodent activity across the UK, with rat activity increasing by 31 per cent and mouse activity by 32 per cent from Q3 to Q4 2024.
  The increase in activity is likely to predominantly be due to the usual seasonal behaviour of rats during the colder months when they typically move indoors or closer to buildings in search of food, warmth, and shelter.
  However, these figures from Rentokil in the UK come on the back o
  
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• SBFM joins the Social Recruitment Covenant

  18-02-2025 12:12 via chtmag.com
  
  Soft service provider, SBFM, has signed the 2024 Social Recruitment Covenant to reinforce its commitment to creating inclusive and equitable employment pathways for disadvantaged groups.
  The Social Recruitment Covenant is a collaborative national programme created by recruitment and training provider PeoplePlus. It is designed to promote social mobility by encouraging organisations to adopt more inclusive hiring practices.
  It advocates that by understanding social value in recruitment and employ
  
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• Grenfell recommendations

  18-02-2025 11:31 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Peter Doyle, Head of Health and Safety at Citation discusses the key findings of the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 report and what it means for the future of building regulations and fire safety
  The publication last September of the final Grenfell report after a six-year public enquiry into the tragedy and the many failings that led to it has once again highlighted the importance of fire safety within the construction sector.
  The 1,700-page report set out details of responsibility, as well as recomme
  
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• Ainscough Industrial Services acquires logistics and engineering services business

  18-02-2025 11:16 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Wigan-based Ainscough Industrial Services (AIS) has acquired Aylesbury business FFM Engineering Services, professionally known as Flegg Projects.
  The deal, reported to be the largest in AIS’s history, will give the global engineering solutions business a strong foothold in the medical equipment logistics market as well as boosting its client base across all manufacturing sectors including energy, aerospace, pharmaceutical and automotive.
  Flegg Projects is one of the UK’s leading serv
  
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• ACE reveals new chair and board appointments

  18-02-2025 10:56 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Laurent Lucas-Dufour has been appointed Chair of the Association of Catering Excellence (ACE) and is joined by a host of new board members.
  Sector Director at Company of Cooks, Lucas-Dufour was appointed Vice-Chair of ACE last year and has been a board member since 2022. He automatically takes over the chairmanship this year from predecessor Francois Gautreaux.
  Natalie Mainwaring, Brand Experience Director at BaxterStorey, has been appointed Vice-Chair, with new board members
  
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• Sodexo reveals ambitious commitments to drive meaningful change in its Social Impact Pledge 2030

  18-02-2025 10:33 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Sodexo has published its Social Impact Pledge 2030, setting out new clear and ambitious commitments to create meaningful impact for its people, planet, places and partners in the UK over the next five years.
  
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• SBFM signs the Social Recruitment Covenant

  18-02-2025 10:24 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The soft services provider has reinforced its commitment to creating inclusive and equitable employment pathways for disadvantaged groups by signing the 2024 Social Recruitment Covenant.
  Created by recruitment and training provider PeoplePlus, the Social Recruitment Covenant is a collaborative national programme, designed to promote social mobility by encouraging organisations to adopt more inclusive hiring practices.
  It advocates that by understanding social value in recruitment and employ
  
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• New chief commercial officer at Sovereign Commercial Services

  18-02-2025 10:02 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Facility management solutions provider, Sovereign Commercial Services, has appointed Rachel Brutosky to the role of Chief Commercial Officer.
  Brutosky brings nearly two decades of experience in the industry, having spent 18 years at Nilfisk, Inc., where she held various sales leadership roles and played a pivotal role in shaping corporate strategy, strengthening client relationships, and leading revenue-driven initiatives. Her background in communications and leadership in commercial strategy ma
  
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• Differences in cleaning practices between countries

  18-02-2025 01:00
  For three years a team of industry expertshas been gathering material on cleaning ergonomics and consciouscleaning. In the latest of their exclusive articles for ECJ, Helge Altfrom Puhastusekspert in Estonia and Tarja Valkosalo of Propuhtaus Finland (who have been involved since the start) look at how cleaning practices vary from country to country.
  Both of us have had a passion for decades to analyse scientific research on cleaning, to take an interest in how cleaning is done in different count
  
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