What Are Industrial Cleaning Services, Types of Industrial Cleaning

July 20, 2023

At Performance Industrial, we specialize in industrial cleaning to help our clients maintain brighter, cleaner, safer, and more professional workplaces. What are industrial cleaning services? When it comes to industrial cleaning, the complexity and depth of our industrial cleaning is truly what sets us apart from the competition when it comes to industrial facilities, power plants, smokestacks, food processing facilities, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, and pharmaceutical facilities. Dirt, oil, dust, you name it, all accumulate in these environments. We specialize in performing a thorough cleaning with various tools and techniques depending on our client’s needs.


Industrial and manufacturing facilities have demanding schedules and usually operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These facilities can get exceptionally dirty, especially considering some of the products made at these facilities. In addition to industrial and manufacturing facilities, our industrial cleaning services are also utilized by commercial kitchens, healthcare facilities, warehouses, stadiums, and more. There can be substantial health and safety impacts without proper industrial cleaning. Through our professional industrial services, we can make a difference in a facility’s quality, safety, and energy performance.


Here are the types of industrial cleaning services we provide:

Ceiling Tile Cleaning

Performance Industrial’s team of experts clean and sanitize all dirt, grease, and other pollutants that can build up on ceilings, instead of simply painting over the problems. We utilize a combination of powerful cleaning agents coupled with our trained technicians to ensure ceilings reflect their original appearance. We use specialized tools to completely break down tough grease and other pollutants, like smoke damage and troubling odors, to provide pristine ceilings. This process can be used to clean and sanitize vinyl and acoustical ceiling tiles.

Overhead Cleaning

Many industrial spaces have extremely high ceilings, and from these ceilings hang multiple items that can collect dust, dirt, and production byproducts. Trusses, rafters, pipes, ductwork, and even the ceiling and walls themselves are all prime areas for dust to settle. These areas can accumulate loads of contaminants which the heating or cooling system then blows around a facility. We provide high quality treatments for removal of dirt, grime, and debris on overhead surfaces such as ceilings, rafters, rubber covered insulation, pipes and more using combustible vacuums, degreasing and hand wiping techniques, compressed air, and power washing. 

Commercial & Industrial HVAC Cleaning

Accumulation of dirt and dust in your facility will affect the function of your HVAC system. Proper cleaning and maintenance of your commercial air ducts and industrial HVAC can increase air flow, improve indoor air quality, boost workforce morale, and enhance customer impressions. We are the top choice for HVAC cleaning services for dozens of clients in commercial and industrial spaces such as universities, manufacturing facilities, restaurants, and commercial kitchens.


Pressure Washing

Commercial and industrial pressure washing services can help maintain a facility’s exterior surfaces. When surfaces are left collecting dirt and contaminants, they can deteriorate your facility’s surfaces over time. Buildings are constantly exposed to elements like gum, birds, grease, pollution, dirt, graffiti, and traffic year-round. Facilities can quickly look worn and rundown without regular pressure washing. Pressure washing is the use of high-pressure water to remove a variety of substances such as loose paint, mold, grime, grease, oil, staining, mud, and dirt from surfaces and objects.

Commercial Kitchen Cleaning

Restaurants and other businesses in the food industry are investing more money to acquire cooking equipment that can do it all to cut down on labor costs and reduce time wasted on food preparation. With more to clean on the daily, it is important to schedule an industrial level clean of all surfaces. We offer topnotch commercial kitchen cleaning services from floor to ceiling including all equipment and fixtures. We begin with a site visit to discuss your goals and assess your facility’s cleaning needs. Using this information, we will determine the best plan of action and provide you with a quote based on the approximate amount of time it will take to fulfill your needs. We use a combination of different cleaning methods such as degreasing, hand scrubbing, scraping, utilization of pressure washing tools and more based on your kitchen’s needs.

Commercial & Industrial Sanitizing

Cleaning with commercial cleaners that contain soap or detergent decreases the number germs on a surface and reduces risk of transmitting infection from surfaces in your facility. Cleaning alone removes most types of harmful germs (like viruses, bacteria, parasites, or fungi) from surfaces. Sanitizing reduces the remaining germs on surfaces after cleaning. Disinfecting can kill harmful germs that remain on surfaces after cleaning. By killing germs on a surface after cleaning, disinfecting can further lower the risk of spreading disease. Our industrial sanitizing includes cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting. Our process includes:

  • Total Surface Wipe Down – Clean all customer- and employee-facing surfaces by hand.
  • ULV (Ultra Low Volume) Fogger – Cleaning method effective for whole room and surface disinfection. Quickly cleans large areas.
  • Hot Water Pressure Washing – Quick and effective surface disinfection for difficult to clean areas and large outdoor surfaces. Water reaches 240℉ with steam cleaning capabilities.
  • HVAC Services – Clean and disinfect air supply ducts by removing dirt and allergens in addition to changing out air filters.
  • Use of Microbicidal Paint – We use an interior paint that kills 99.9% of bacteria two hours after application and up to 90% of bacteria thereafter.

Machinery and Equipment

We can conduct thorough cleanings that suit the needs of all your facility’s machinery and equipment. We begin with a site visit to discuss your goals and assess your cleaning needs. Using this information, we will determine the best plan of action and provide you with a quote based on the approximate amount of time it will take to fulfill your needs. We use a combination of different cleaning methods such as degreasing, hand scrubbing, scraping, utilization of pressure washing tools and more based on your kitchen’s needs.

Combustible and Nuisance Dust

Combustible dust accidents are preventable. Unfortunately, housekeeping neglect, improper training, and incorrect handling can lead to property damage, injuries, and even loss of life. We use high-powered explosion-proof pneumatic anti-static vacuum systems that remove combustible dust to help keep your facility safe from accidents.

About Performance Industrial

When you need a long term-term solution for all your industrial cleaning needs, let Performance Industrial make a difference! Through our professional industrial services, we can make a world of difference in a facility’s quality, safety, and energy performance. We understand that each project impacts the world in a different way and our goal is to help make the world a better place through project completion. When you need a single source and expert execution, think Performance Industrial!

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