How Industrial Cleaning Can Save (and Make) You Money in 2024

Efficient, tailored, and expert industrial cleaning plays an integral role in enabling a facility to achieve its goals.

We often shout from the rooftops that industrial cleaning is the unsung hero in achieving success for manufacturers, warehouses, factories, and any other industrial setting you can think of.

Industrial cleaning keeps our machines happy, our workplace healthy, and our operations running smoothly. It can not only save you serious money in the short and long term, but it can also significantly boost your ROI, company reputation and bottom line.

Read on for 11 reasons why industrial cleaning isn’t just a chore, but a vital partner in ensuring your site’s success, productivity and safety.

1) Equipment Lasts Longer

Cleaning your industrial equipment regularly prevents the build up of dust, debris, corrosive materials or waste by-product from the manufacturing process. This cleaning can range from routine tasks, to extensive deep cleans or specialist works, depending on the industry.

Proper cleaning reduces the frequency of unexpected repairs and replacement parts. It also reduces the risk of unplanned downtime incidents.

Check out a related blog post on reducing unplanned downtime: “How to Reduce Manufacturing Downtime: Maximise Results with Industrial Cleaning”

2) Energy Efficiency

Clean machinery and equipment operates far more efficiently than dirty machinery; think waste product clogging the mechanism, or dust and debris build-up wearing down crucial parts.

Efficient machinery can also lead to lower energy consumption, which supports sustainability goals and budgetary adjustments during the cost of living crisis.

5) Health & Safety of Workers

A clean and tidy facility significantly reduces the risk of trips, slips and falls, as well as reducing the risk of sickness arising from an unclean workplace.

Industrial cleaning also improves overall moral and satisfaction for employees, as no one likes working in a grotty or unclean workplace.

6) Reduced Risk of Fire

We don’t need to tell you the dangers of factory or industrial fires, either for the safety of your employees or the cost and effort involved with post-fire restoration. If your facility involves dust, oil, grease, flammable chemicals or other fuels for fire, regular specialised cleaning is absolutely essential to reduce the risk of fire.

7) Prevent Contamination of Products

Industries such as pharmaceuticals, food and beverage manufacturing and electronics manufacturing require stringent cleanliness to prevent contamination. Targeted industrial cleaning will help avoid costly recalls and product rejections from customers. Not to mention, it will help avoid knocks to your reputation as a reliable and quality manufacturer or supplier.

8) Property Value & Image

A clean and tidy site does wonders for building a positive corporate image. It isn’t a welcoming site for visitors, customers or auditors to be greeted by oily and grimy machinery or infrastructure covered in dust or carbon build up.

A sleek, clean and maintained facility can indirectly boost the financial success of your facility by attracting investors, new clients and repeat customers. Besides, why would you keep your Head Office polished and well looked after, but neglect your production infrastructure to the point where it’s oily, grimy, dusty and run down? Your employees won’t be impressed, and neither will customers or auditors.

9) Reduce Insurance Premiums

For some industries, especially those with high-temperature production processes where risk of fire is high, insurance premiums can be expensive. Many companies require evidence that facilities are taking proactive measures to reduce risks, for example, of fires. 

Targeted industrial cleaning is an essential measure for removing combustible build up across your facility and reducing the risk of fire. In many cases however, this is specialised work and therefore highly important to partner with a trained and experienced specialist contractor.

10) Proactive vs Reactive Costs

There are usually two types of customer who require industrial cleaning; those who schedule in works ahead of time on a regular or semi-regular basis, and those who require emergency services in reaction to an accident, a fire, breakdowns or an unexpected event. Such is the difference between proactive and reactive cleaning.

Of course, both are perfectly valid and fine depending on your circumstance. However, proactive industrial cleaning is by far a cheaper and more hassle-free approach to mitigating risk across your facility and avoiding potentially high costs of repair or unplanned production downtime.

11) Cheaper Than In-House

We have been called to many jobs for a cleaning project which has previously been attempted in-house. Usually, the in-house effort produced unsatisfactory results, and our clients are frustrated about the time this has taken away from the jobs their employees are paid to do.

Professional industrial cleaners are actually mostly cheaper than attempting a project in house, as the contractors will be well equipped and trained to tackle the job efficiently, quickly and with quality results that won’t require a second go. If you’re going to do a job, do it well first time.

To finish – Why should Industrial Cleaning be a priority in 2024?

Specialist industrial cleaning is a proactive and strategic measure that can lead to significant cost savings over time. It not only addresses immediate cleanliness concerns, but it also contributes to the overall efficiency, safety and longevity of industrial operations.

It reduces the need for large financial outlays for either expensive cleaning equipment or industrial repairs, and it also allows time for your staff to do the job they’re trained to do.