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Glove Use In Healthcare (WHHD 2025)

Each year, the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign works toward the ongoing goal of maintaining global awareness about the role of hand hygiene in healthcare, while also encouraging collective action to improve hand hygiene practices around the...

Sustainability

A green gem in the heart of Issum industrial zone

Nestled in the heart of an industrial zone in the Niederrhein village of Issum, lies a 1,200 m² wild meadow. Until 2020, the space was regularly mown and occasionally used as a space to play sports. Today the area is teeming with rare species of...

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Hygiene software in a new design

As a digital software solution, the Kanary® brand supports the effective optimisation of hygiene standards in healthcare, facility management and industry. The hygiene software has now been given a comprehensive redesign with an even more intuitive...

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OPHARDT Hygiene once again honoured as Brand of the Century

For the second time in a row, the family-owned company from the Lower Rhine region has received the prestigious award from ZEIT Verlag. OPHARDT has been shaping the hygiene industry for over six decades with its pioneering spirit, innovative...

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OPHARDT launches Euro bottle made of PET

Over half a million Euro bottles leave the OPHARDT Hygiene production line every year. The empty containers are either added to one of the popular ingo-man® brand Euro dispensers or they leave the logistics center in Issum on the Lower Rhine on...

Customer stories

Smart partnership for more hygiene

The Dutch start-up dispenser-service.nl and OPHARDT Hygiene have recently started working together. The two companies share a vision of a smart hygiene world. We spoke to company founders Sjors Heldens and Max van Breugel about the partnership and...

Events

OPHARDT makes a big impression at major German hygiene congress

The family-owned company from the Lower Rhine region draws an all-round positive conclusion from the Freiburg Infectiology and Hygiene Congress 2024, which is organized annually by the Deutschen Beratungszentrum für Hygiene (BZH). The sold-out lunch...