H3I ITALY 2017: WASHING TODAY!

LATEST RESEARCH AND REGULATIONS IN HOME AND INDUSTRIAL CLEANING

The cleaning industry is perhaps one of the most important sectors impacting on our daily lives, in terms of volumes of product used, environmental impact, health - the reasons are clear to everyone. I would just like to recall a business trip to Mexico because it reminds me of seeing people buying bread and washing powders in the same quantities - washing powder was also available in one-kilogramme sizes because it was cheaper than buying it in larger sizes, which made me think how widespread the use of detergents was in everyone’s daily routine.

The washing industry is constantly driven by research and development. Long gone are the days - the 1960s come to mind - when the northern Italy countryside where I lived was dotted with marshes showing seemingly unrealistic detergent-foam blob sculptures forming over the water. Actually, fo ... ...