May 14, 2024

Nilfisk teams up with LionsBot to create new autonomous cleaning machine

A collaboration between Nilfisk, a leading global provider of professional cleaning products and services, and best-in-class robotics developer LionsBot results in a new cleaning machine developed to support cleaners making their work smarter.

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What do you get when you combine Danish 116 years know-how with the latest robotics technology from Singapore? A new cleaning machine that will close a gap in the market, and support cleaners in small to medium sized areas to clean more efficiently.

 

Nilfisk and LionsBot are building on each other’s strengths when they partnered up to create a new autonomous cleaning machine targeted at small to medium sized areas such smaller retailers, offices, kindergartens, clinics etc.

 

CEO of Nilfisk René Svendsen-Tune comments:

 

“These autonomous cleaning machines are the perfect support for cleaning personnel. Easy to use, reliable and delivering high standards of cleaning. It’s about accomplishing more with the labor we have and provide better conditions for the employees. It’s a great product and I am very excited about showing it to our customers".

 

“Nilfisk and LionsBot collab is aimed at creating the cleaning robot as requested by cleaning professionals globally, it plays to the complementary strengths of each company in this unique Danish-Singaporean collaboration. This is the start of a new cleaning robotics revolution”, says Dylan Ng, CEO & Co-Founder of LionsBot.

 

The vision for a cleaner, more sustainable future and a dedication to address the evolving needs of our industries and communities is the foundation for the collab between Nilfisk and LionsBot. This was a solid foundation for the idea to build on each organisation’s strengths combining unique insights, market reach and next generation technology to develop new autonomous cleaning machines for the market. With Nilfisk’s heritage, extensive global network, reliable and high-performance products, and LionsBot’s R&D capabilities as a fast-growing startup known for user-friendly products.

 

The first product to come out of the collab SC25 is launched today at the Interclean 2024 trade fair in Amsterdam.

 

For more information, visit www.nilfisk.com or www.LionsBot.com

 

Press contact, Nilfisk
Nynne Jespersen Lee
Head of Group Communication
T: +45 42310007
M: njespersen@nilfisk.com

 

Press contact, LionsBot
Sherilyn Quek 
Branding & Marketing Manager
M: marketing@lionsbot.com 

 

About Nilfisk
Nilfisk was founded in 1906 by the Danish engineer P.A. Fisker. Today the company is a world-leading provider of professional and consumer floorcare equipment, vacuum cleaners, and high-pressure washers. More than 90 percent of sales target professionals, while the remaining 10 percent of the business is focused on consumers.

 

Nilfisk products and services are sold in more than 100 countries and produced at 9 manufacturing sites across the globe. Our main facilities are based in the U.S., Mexico, Hungary, Italy, and China. A total of 4,700 employees secured revenue of 1,033.6 mEUR in 2023. The largest single market is the U.S., covering 30% of revenue in 2023, followed by Germany (14%), France (10%), Denmark (6%) and the U.K. (4%).

 

About LionsBot International


Established in 2018, LionsBot International is a revered name in the realm of smart robotics, offering state-of-the-art technology solutions to the commercial cleaning sector. Headquartered in Singapore, LionsBot has revolutionized the industry with a series of autonomous floor-cleaning robots, all proudly designed, developed, and integrated with their proprietary cloud operating system, LionsOS. The accolades achieved by the company are a testament to its relentless pursuit of excellence: the LeoBot was crowned with the Interclean Amsterdam Innovation Award in 2020, making LionsBot the first Asian firm to clinch this honor. Further, LionsOS bagged the European Cleaning & Hygiene Award for technological innovation in 2022 and the prestigious IF design award in 2023, while the R3 Vac was celebrated with the Red Dot award. LionsBot was recently listed on Forbes Asia's 100 to Watch List in 2023, 5th position in "Singapore’s Fastest Growing Companies 2024" by The Straits Times and Statista, and ranked 23rd in the Financial Times' list of High-Growth Companies in Asia-Pacific for 2024. Today, the company proudly distributes over 2500 cleaning robots across 30 countries spanning Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia, with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, United States, India, and the Netherlands.

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