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Mitie awarded £92.5m deal at the John Radcliffe Hospital

Mitie has won a new contract to provide cleaning, portering services, and catering for patients and staff at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Worth £92.5 million over a five-year term, the contract has the option to extend for up ...

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Chloe the robot joins Sodexo hospital cleaning team

Sodexo’s cleaning team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, has a new recruit of the robot variety who has been named Chloe by young patients on the children’s ward. Chloe the robot will be helping the ...

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Treating office cleaning as a matter of health and safety

By James Carver, Managing Director, OSC The steady return of workers to offices across the country has been positive news for all. However, this return to normality has coincided with an increase in Covid cases and the fast approach of ...

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SoftBank Robotics expands into Denmark

SoftBank Robotics EMEA has signed distributor agreements with both Abena DK (service provider and knowledge centre) and Virena ApS (cleaning service provider) for different verticals in Denmark. Under the agreement, the companies will now offer Whiz, Europe’s first industrial cobotic ...

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Climate positive products launched by new social enterprise

With  COP26 negotiations having drawn to a close , the launch of a new social enterprise, Amplify Goods, shows how ‘climate positive’ products can help businesses bring the transition to Net Zero to life through their supply chains. Led, owned, ...

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The Cleaning Show celebrates with a triumphant return to London

The UK’s largest and most important event in the cleaning and hygiene sector, The Cleaning Show, welcomed more than 4,600 visitors through its doors when it made its triumphant return to London. It marked the industry’s first physical event since ...

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Jangro smashes fundraising goal for cancer support charity

Jangro, the UK & Ireland’s largest network of independent janitorial and cleaning distributors, has reached its fundraising goal for MacMillan Cancer Support. Working in partnership with this worthy charity since 2013, Jangro pledged to raise £100,000 to help them support people ...

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Chartered Practitioners scheme launched at Cleaning Show

The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners (WCEC) has launched the new Chartered Practitioners’ Register at the Cleaning Show 2021. After senior members of the WCEC led the way for others to follow in September, now the Chartership scheme is launched ...

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Cleaning and hygiene Trailblazer group receives greenlight for accredited industry-wide training programme and apprenticeship

Delighted cleaning and hygiene industry leaders have welcomed a decision to give the greenlight to develop detailed proposals for an accredited industry-wide training programme and apprenticeship for the sector. Earlier this year, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) sponsored a Trailblazer ...

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CSSA finalists display the latest technologies at The Cleaning Show

In conjunction with the Cleaning & Support Services Association (CSSA), The Cleaning Show 2021 will play host to the brand new CSSA Innovation Showcase when it returns to ExCeL, London tomorrow. The dedicated pavilion will celebrate the industry’s most innovative and new technologies at a time when ...

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