Green Certification for Communities & Residential Spaces While Indian city planners are increasingly aware of this need for sustainable and environmentally sound practices, there are far more technical knowhow available world over to choose from. Mili Majumdar, Managing Director of ... Read More »

Overcoming challenges with Industry 4.0 For long, the Laundry and Drycleaning industry has been lagging behind in terms of evolving the way it functions. As a result, a lot of the industry challenges arise from the fact that we are ... Read More »

It was recently that one of the housekeeping managers of a hotel in the Gulf mentioned having to host 3000 guests for a wedding. The hotel had to fly down the best of the housekeeping staff from across countries to ... Read More »

In the past few years, the hospitality sector has rapidly expanded with the rise of online aggregators such as AirBnb and Booking.com, which have brought a diverse range of staying options under their ambit. Individual rooms in houses, homestays, service ... Read More »

More and more cleaning operations are being run on-site with the help of digital apps, which can offer a wide range of management information including quality auditing, daily reports, instant reporting and staff time & attendance. Digitisation – the buzzword ... Read More »

The world-famous JUKI sewing machine manufacturers, Shanghai Weishi Machinery Co. Ltd, is today’s largest manufacturer of laundry equipment of South China. Clean India Journal visited Weishi’s state-of-the-art multi-storeyed facility in Shanghai and also visited some of the facilities with Weishi ... Read More »

In his address to the nation on Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a clarion call for Indians to stop using single-use plastics. Since then, it was widely expected that the government would issue a notification banning singleuse plastics ... Read More »

Housekeeping can seem like a repetitive, monotonous job, yet its major components can make or break the guest’s impression of the property, while the minor touches can earn a guest’s loyalty. While the primary job of actually cleaning and tidying ... Read More »

The supply chain management team of Lite Bite Foods (LBF) and the Hospitality Purchase Managers Forum (HPMF), along with Saurabh Sengupta of the Dead River Project, conducted a Tree Plantation Drive in a small village named Bhondsi near Gurgaon. 150+ ... Read More »

Now that India has woken up to its waste problem and is proactive about phasing out landfills and bringing in Solid Waste Management plants at the municipal level, what’s next? On the horizon is the phase where decentralised waste treatment ... Read More »

When we think of hospitals, we picture doctors, nurses, emergency rooms, wards, operation theatres and ICUs. What doesn’t immediately come to mind, and what all of the above either wear or contain, is hospital linen. Considering the nature of the ... Read More »

Xeros Technology Group, the developer and provider of water saving technologies has recently signed an exclusive agreement to develop and license its domestic and commercial washing machine technologies to IFB Industries Limited, the leading domestic appliance and commercial laundry equipment ... Read More »

Farmers, governments, food processing industries, restaurants and recyclers need to work together to tackle the millions of tonnes of food waste generated in India each year The human race wastes more than 1.3 billion tonnes of food every year. Just ... Read More »

Sensors and wireless communication modules provide real-time data on the fill status of these bins, keeping all stakeholders informed through an app, and creating alerts for timely waste collection. Who isn’t familiar with the sight of overflowing trash bins, their ... Read More »

Hotel laundries process bigger volumes of linen. The only limitation is that the revenue from hotel laundries is significantly lower when compared to retail laundries. Consequently, hotel laundries need to find ways and means to eliminate all factors that hamper ... Read More »

In the quest for achieving the dream of Total Quality Management there are many moments which end up being nightmarish, says Hospitality Consultant Avril Sule. She talks about Service Recovery Paradox in complaint handling. As standards of service rocket sky-high, ... Read More »

I frequently ask questions to various people about my personal experiences with some Big Brands & this time around I asked, “Do Big Brands disappoint you?” My experiences tell me that as Brands grow & start their journey with standards, ... Read More »

Our oceans currently hold 165 million tonnes of plastic waste. By 2050, they are expected to contain more plastic than fish. The rivers that discharge this waste into oceans are themselves reduced to large drains, clogged as they are with ... Read More »

The Jensen Group continues to focus on smart digital solutions for heavy-duty laundries. The group recently unveiled its two-tier sales strategy with high-tech products from its American and European factories, as well as single machines exported from China under the ... Read More »

This story begins in those days of 1992 when Indian youth were facing unemployment and getting a good job was a far-fetched team. Treading intelligently, Debtosh Chatterjee built the Chatterjee Cleaning Arts Services Pvt. Ltd (CCSPAL) from scratch and is ... Read More »