Blowing in the wind

A range of Tork washroom products has just been sold to an award-winning wind energy company. Renewable Energy Systems has equipped the washrooms of its premises in Kings Langley, Herts, with Tork washroom hand towels, soaps and air fresheners.

“We are delighted to be linked so closely with another company that is as dedicated to reducing environmental impact as ourselves,” said SCA Tissue Europe’s UK & Ireland Away From Home region director Alexander de Jongh. “The environment is at the heart...
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Access all areas at Spinnaker Tower

Staffordshire-based Total Access (UK) Limited has won the contract for the cleaning, maintenance & inspection of Britain’s newest iconic structure - Spinnaker Tower.

This awe-inspiring new national icon on England’s south coast will be in the safe hands of Total Access for the next three years. The company is already experienced in work on structures such as the London Eye, Wembley Stadium & Old Trafford, and has won the contract despite competition from outside the Industrial Rope Access Trade...
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TC Contractors creates Extra Works & Projects division

As part of an on-going strategy to offer customers a complete cleaning solution, TC Contractors has created an Extra Works & Projects division to focus on non-core business.

The new department provides a wide range of specialist solutions, including carpet cleaning, builders’ cleans, high level cladding and reach & wash  indow cleaning, plus regeneration of terrazzo, marble or granite floors using an innovative diamond grinding system.

Stuart Buswell, operations director,  Extra Works & Projects...
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C&M visits ISS, winner of the Golden Service Training Award

Training is our best investment

The opening comment from ISS’s training and development manager Michelle Benton set the tone for the whole interview, when she said: "Training is our best investment because people are our only asset.

They make our business the success that it is today. As the largest cleaning and FM company in the world, we must set the pace for staff training. The Kimberly-Clark Professional & CSSA Golden Service Awards programme is designed to recognise the best in cleaning...
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Clean slate for 2008

Welcome news has come from BCCE Ltd - joint company of BCC and Quartz Publishing & Exhibitions Limited - which is planning an all-singing, all-dancing conference for 2008.

This hails a return to an annual cleaning conference for the industry, following a gap this year from one that had been run to date by BICSc and supported by BCC. Key to the conference will be common themes that apply to all sectors from contractors and machinery manufacturers to environmental cleansing and facilities...
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Safety accolades for FM companies

Around 90 facilities management companies have been honoured at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Occupational Health and Safety Awards.

The winner of the Facilities Management Sector was MacLellan International, with Babcock Infrastructure Services highly commended and Reliance Integrated Services, commended. Other facilities management companies won 42 silver awards, 31 gold awards, 11 gold medals, three president’s awards and one order of distinction.

Tom Mullarkey, RoSPA chief...
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