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Recent cleaning industry articles to highlight advancements in cleaning industry, sustainability initiatives. Key trends include robotic technology for cleaning automation, safer cleaning products, and specialized techniques for high-touch surface disinfection.
Reducing Turnover in the Janitorial Industry
For Building Service Contractors, labor is more than the largest expense — it’s the engine that drives service quality, customer satisfaction, and profitability. Yet across the janitorial industry, high employee turnover continues to challenge even the most experienced operators…
Janitorial Companies Turn to GPOs to Cut Supply Costs Amid Price Pressures
As supply-price volatility continues to pressure margins, janitorial and facility service companies are taking a closer look at group purchasing organizations (GPOs) as a lever to control spend on everyday essentials—from paper and liners to chemicals, floor care products, equipment, and PPE…
What a Potential Iran Conflict Could Mean for Jan-San Commercial Cleaners
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: jan-san cleaners don’t get to sit out global volatility. If tensions involving Iran spill into a wider conflict, the first hits may look like “normal” cost creep—fuel, freight, chemicals, parts—but they can quickly turn into service disruptions and margin erosion…
How Smart Dispensers and IoT Are Changing Facility Services
The facility services industry is evolving rapidly as commercial cleaning companies face increasing pressure to do more with less. Labor shortages, rising costs, and heightened expectations around cleanliness and sustainability are driving a shift toward smarter, more efficient operations.
How to Better Manage and Consolidate Supply Spend in the Jan-San Industry
Jan-san supply spend can become a large, low-visibility cost in facility operations. Thousands of SKUs, decentralized ordering, substitutions, and spot buys create price leakage and make it hard to link purchases to actual consumption…
