About CWS Hygiene: CWS Hygiene provides innovative, sustainable, and digitized hygiene services across Europe, ensuring health, safety, and protection in workplaces and public spaces. Through a circular rental model and a team of 4,000 employees, CWS Hygiene is committed to a healthier and safer tomorrow by combining hygiene excellence with ambitious sustainability goals.
CWS Hygiene enters a Joint Venture with EMCO Tex to strengthen floorcare capabilities, drive innovation and secure long-term quality and supply stability across Europe.
CWS Hygiene International GmbH has acquired a 51% stake in EMCO Tex GmbH, following approval from the competition authority. This transaction creates a Joint Venture between CWS Hygiene and EMCO Group to strengthen long-term capabilities, innovation and cost efficiency in the floorcare segment.
Floorcare is CWS Hygiene’s largest service category and a critical part of its customer offering across Europe. With this step, CWS Hygiene is strengthening its ability to deliver high-quality, reliable and increasingly innovative floorcare solutions by combining its long-standing service expertise with EMCO Tex’s manufacturing know-how.
The Joint Venture brings together CWS Hygiene’s market access and service expertise with EMCO Tex’s manufacturing and technical capabilities. The collaboration is designed to support the development of more varied, innovative and cost-efficient mat solutions for the broader floorcare services industry. EMCO Tex operates a modern production facility in Germany and specializes in high-quality textile mat solutions for businesses.
“This partnership strengthens our control over a strategically critical product category and ensures long-term reliability for our customers,” says Gatien Gillon, CEO of CWS Hygiene. “By working more closely with EMCO Tex, we are investing in quality, supply stability and innovation in one of our most important service areas.”
“With CWS Hygiene, we have gained a strong and established strategic partner who shares our commitment to quality, reliability and innovation. The Joint Venture is an important milestone for EMCO Tex and the EMCO Group, strengthening our growth path, expanding our market reach in Europe and creating an excellent basis for sustainable development and long-term success,” says Stephan Hettwer, CEO of EMCO Group.
This transaction reinforces CWS Hygiene’s long-term strategic focus on quality, innovation, and supply chain stability in a key segment of its portfolio.
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