CWS

Founded in 1899, CWS provides integrated rental and full-service solutions for safety, health, and hygiene across multiple industries. Headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, the company employs approximately 10,600 people and operates in 16 countries across four continents, making it one of the more substantial employers in its field. Its work spans hygiene, workwear, fire safety, cleanrooms, and healthcare.

The business is organised around five areas: CWS Hygiene delivers washroom and hygiene solutions for businesses and public spaces, including settings such as airports; CWS Workwear continues the company's original workwear rental and full-service business; CWS Fire Safety provides fire safety systems and services for industrial facilities and other sectors; CWS Cleanrooms offers cleanroom solutions tailored to sector-specific requirements; and CWS Healthcare delivers healthcare solutions and services.

Underpinning these offerings is a rental and full-service model designed to reduce environmental impact, with sustainability and circularity central to the business. The company places emphasis on innovation, sustainability, and digitalization in service delivery, alongside values of reliability, quality, and compliance built up over more than 125 years of operation. The stated focus of the organisation is protecting people and maintaining hygiene and safety standards.

Technical domains at CWS include circular economy and sustainability, digitalized service solutions, washroom hygiene, fire safety systems, cleanroom solutions, workwear and textile services, and healthcare services. The work serves a range of verticals, among them workwear and PPE, hygiene and sanitation, aviation and airports, industrial facilities, cleanrooms and controlled environments, healthcare, facilities management, and public spaces.