In Lyon, a House of Cleanliness to professionalize the sector

Stores, hospitals, medicine or consumer goods factories: all these “strategic” places during confinements and the Covid crisis continued to operate thanks to the employees of cleaning companies, argues Vincent Fischer, president of the Employers’ Union of Cleaning Companies. cleaning of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (Spenra) and manager of MS 69, an ETI of 1,200 employees and fifteen subsidiaries in Lyon and throughout France.

For two years, Spenra has brought together all the structures affiliated with the sector in a House of Cleanliness which houses around thirty permanent staff. The site is close to the Gerland Biodistrict, this ecosystem which includes some major health players such as Sanofi Genzyme, Boehringer Ingelheim, WHO and LyonBiopôle.