How nilfisk food become the pioneer of low pressure foam cleaning
Hygienic Cleaning Solutions for the Food Industry
Cleaning and disinfection of food production facilities are essential to maintaining high food safety standards. But what if you could clean faster, use less water and detergent, and achieve better hygienic results?
With smart cleaning equipment from Nilfisk FOOD, you can optimise your cleaning processes, reduce operating costs and increase production uptime.
Shaping the Future of Hygienic Cleaning
At Nilfisk FOOD, we challenge conventional cleaning methods and help shape the future of hygienic surface cleaning.
As pioneers of low-pressure foam cleaning technology, we specialise in optimising industrial cleaning processes and improving food safety worldwide.
As part of the Nilfisk Group, we build on more than a century of experience and expertise in professional cleaning equipment.
Engineered to Run
Cleaning equipment in the food and beverage industries must withstand demanding conditions and intensive daily use.
That's why Nilfisk FOOD equipment is ENGINEERED TO RUN.
Our solutions are designed to deliver reliable performance, day after day, while making cleaning processes faster, smarter and more efficient.
Cleaning Solutions Designed Around Your Needs
We work closely with our worldwide network of partners and customers to understand the challenges they face.
Together, we develop cleaning solutions tailored to the specific needs of:
- Food and Beverage production
- OEM
- Food Retail
- Institutional industries
Our goal is to optimise cleaning efficiency, improve hygiene and deliver cost-effective solutions that meet the highest industry requirements.
Together, we take the lead in hygienic industrial cleaning.
1981
Start
For us it is all about satisfying our customers’ evolving needs and it’s been so since the start in 1981 when a local gas station Metax approached us with a request to optimize the cleaning processes and results at their car wash.
That’s how we’ve started our experiences with foam.
At the same time, the leading contractor ISS approached us with a request to optimize cleaning processes at food production premises, where they were cleaning with high pressure equipment and the spray cleaning methods.
1983
Gaining speed
Combining the strengths of the findings from these two customer requests gave foundations to “Scanio” and later “Scanio Flow” – the pioneer in foam cleaning technology and low-pressure foam cleaning for the food industry.
1993
KEW group acquires Scanio Flow
2004
Acquired by Nilfisk Advance
Nilfisk Advance acquires Alto Group and in 2014 we change our Name to Nilfisk FOOD. Same year we introduce our Hybrid Product Line, our patented Corona technology and Tornado nozzle.
2017
Listing at NASDAQ
this year we are listed at NASDAQ Copenhagen stock exchange.
2022
Beginning of digitalization of cleaning industry
Nilfisk FOOD introduces our new digitalized and connectable productline Hybrid 7. Data Driven, hygienic cleaning with remote monitoring and service capabilities. Delivering live data readings and consumption reports for sustainability purposes.
2026
Freudenberg Germany acquires Nilfisk and Nilfisk FOOD
Freudenberg Home and Cleaning Solutions, a leading German supplier of cleaning systems, acquires Nilfisk, including Nilfisk FOOD. The acquisition strengthens both companies and combines their expertise to offer customers more innovative and comprehensive manual and automatic cleaning solutions.
2026
Today
Today we are Nilfisk FOOD and we run the world of low-pressure foam cleaning. Our equipment is engineered to run in the Food and Beverage, OEM, FoodRetail, Institutional, Life Sciences and Agricultural industries, and you can trust that it works day in, day out, doing the cleaning job faster and smarter than ever before.
Tomorrow
Future
We challenge and define the FUTURE of hygienic cleaning.
Developing cutting edge technologies improving cleaning processes and food safety around the world.
