Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 17th July 2025 Issue no. 1171

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Cleaning management and training solutions

Category winner: European Cleaning Machines Recycling - ECMR – A unique concept for the professional cleaning sector.

The issue of cleaning machine disposal is a challenging one for our industry, and it will become even more so as regulations will inevitably oblige manufacturers to take more responsibility for machines at the end of their life – and in a totally transparent fashion. This innovation will help solve these issues.

Finalist: Alpheios International – ExpertAtHand is an app for devices such as Google Glass that makes it possible for a cleaning expert to look through the eyes of the cleaners on-site and communicate with them in real time.

Finalist: Hako – Hako-Fleet-Management-Solutions is a system designed to manage fleets of cleaning machines, and to help customers to control and run them economically via mobile phone and internet.

Finalist: Karcher – Karcher Fleet Services is a solution for managing fleets of cleaning machines. Data is taken from machines, analyzed and made available for use on a web-based user interface.

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