The problems in this sector
Three challenges every operator recognises.
COST-PER-CLEAN PRESSURE
Every quote is decided at the third decimal.
FM contracts are won and lost at the cost-per-square-metre level. Product cost is scrutinised, but the real driver is how many product applications a shift can complete. A cheaper chemical that needs three applications to hold a standard is more expensive than a premium chemical that needs one — but this is invisible in a procurement spreadsheet.
CREW ROTATION AND TRAINING
Every shift starts with a crew that may not have used your products before.
Cleaning crew turnover, night-shift substitution, and multi-site deployment mean the person applying your product at 2am may have received the training briefing in a different language, on a different day, on a different product. Chemical dilution errors, application-order errors, and compatibility errors compound across shifts.
CLIENT-FACING COMPLAINTS
Chemical smell in the client's lobby is a client-facing incident.
Corporate clients call about chemical smell in reception, cleaner residue on marble, or a receptionist headache more often than they call about anything the crew actually did wrong. These calls are handled at account-manager level and cost time you don't bill for. They also erode contract renewal probability quietly, over years.
two that experienced operators notice quietly.
STAFF TURNOVER RISK
Your storeroom holds twelve chemicals doing the work of four.
Site-by-site product accumulation over years leaves most FM contractors with a chemical inventory that no operations manager has audited from scratch in a decade. Simplification would save procurement, training, storage, and SDS-documentation overhead — but consolidation projects rarely rise to the top of the priority list.
SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING FOR CLIENT ESG
Corporate clients are starting to ask for your Scope 3 numbers.
The FM contractor who can respond to a client's ESG questionnaire with EU Ecolabel biodegradability data, chemical-load reduction figures, and third-party sustainability certification is the contractor who wins the next contract cycle. Corporate ESG reporting is pushing cleaning suppliers into visibility they were not previously in. Most FM contractors are not yet equipped.
Recommended for facility management
Concentrate and contractor-grade formats calibrated for the operational economics of professional cleaning.
Polvita Protective Indoors — 5L Concentrate
The workhorse format for FM contractors. Dilutes into standard spray-bottle and mop-bucket applications across corporate offices, retail, transport hubs, and public spaces. Bulk pricing for scale.
Contractor-grade cost-per-litre with the 14-day continuous action built in. Cost-per-clean model favours Polvita once frequency assumptions are re-calibrated.
Polvita Protective Sanitary Spray
For high-frequency public washroom rotation — office building restrooms, transport-hub facilities, food-court washrooms. Continuous odour management between formal clean cycles.
Reduces call-back complaints from client tenants about washroom odour — the single most common tenant complaint that lands on an FM contractor's desk.
Polvita Protective Air
For carpeted zones, upholstered furniture, curtain systems, and HVAC-adjacent soft surfaces in corporate environments. Applied on scheduled deep-clean rotations.
Addresses the "stuffy building" complaint that lives in soft furnishings and rarely gets resolved by hard-surface cleaning alone. Particularly relevant for older commercial buildings in tropical climates.
Featured Case Study — Facility Management
How probiotic cleaning addresses it
chemical residue
surface protection duration
child/staff safety
environmental load
cost-per-clean
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Multi-site commercial cleaning pilot — Singapore CBD.
Case study currently in preparation. Metrics tracking: chemical inventory reduction, cost-per-clean modelling, and tenant complaint reduction across a portfolio of commercial properties in Singapore CBD. Publication planned once outcomes review is complete.
How Polvita addresses these problems
Polvita is designed for the operational reality of a professional cleaning contractor. Concentrate formats for cost control, near-neutral pH for broad surface compatibility, and a documentation profile that supports client ESG reporting.
One application, fourteen days of coverage.
The probiotic layer continues working between cleans — so a surface cleaned today is still actively resisting recontamination two weeks later. This changes cost-per-clean economics in the FM contractor's favour. Cleaning frequency assumptions built into the tender can be re-modelled.
Training that transfers across crews and shifts.
Application is deliberately simple: capsule into bottle, spray. No dilution ratios, no PPE requirements, no compatibility matrices to memorise. A new crew member is applying correctly within their first shift. Multi-language training briefings are supplied with every account.
Guest-safe chemistry across every client type.
Near-neutral pH, no chlorine, no ammonia, no strong perfumes. A single product that works safely across corporate lobbies, executive washrooms, food-court surfaces, and back-of-house — without the compatibility spreadsheet.
ESG-report-ready documentation.
EU Ecolabel biodegradability data, chemical-load reduction metrics, and third-party certification (SGS, Intertek, EU CE) are all supplied as part of the standard delivery pack. When your corporate client's sustainability team asks for supplier ESG evidence, you have it in the folder already.
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