FacilityApps and Cleaning Workx join forces for further growth
FacilityApps and Cleaning Workx combine their expertise to speed up digitalisation and VR training in the cleaning industry with innovative, scalable solutions.
Published on 2025-11-13 by FacilityApps.
Categories: Persbericht.
Purmerend, 13 November 2025 – FacilityApps, the leading developer of digital solutions for cleaning companies, today announces a strategic collaboration in the form of a joint venture with Cleaning Workx, specialist in Virtual Reality training for cleaners. This alliance enables both companies to expand their services in the Netherlands and internationally and to offer the most innovative solutions for the cleaning industry. Digitalisation is accelerating in the cleaning sector The collaboration between FacilityApps and Cleaning Workx comes at a time when the cleaning industry faces major challenges. Staff shortages, ageing supervisors and trainers, different nationalities and the accompanying language and cultural barriers, rising costs and increasing quality requirements make digitalisation indispensable. By combining their areas of expertise, these Dutch software companies are developing practical solutions that respond directly to the daily reality of cleaning businesses. "We see that many Dutch cleaning companies have already taken the first steps in digitalisation," says Dirk Tuip, CEO of FacilityApps. "However, there is still plenty of room for improvement, especially with new technology such as AI, Virtual Reality and data-driven cleaning. This collaboration with Cleaning Workx brings us even closer to where the work really happens and where, in our view, there is still a lot to gain: the cleaners themselves." foto-1 image-e07308539b9cdf24e9c000b54a010d310dab5ff0-4080x3072-jpg Benefits of VR training Cleaning Workx offers realistic and interactive training modules that allow cleaners to be trained and certified in a fun, safe, efficient and scalable way. The programmes are independent of language, location and time and focus on improving quality, safety and job satisfaction within the cleaning sector. From start-up to scale-up Wieland Hendriksen, CEO of Cleaning Workx: "Every month the number of cleaners who are trained or retrained via Virtual Reality increases, as does the number of interested companies, who often come to us through word of mouth. Joining forces with FacilityApps is an important milestone that gives our company a significant accelerati