According to the World Robotics 2021 – Service Robots report, presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) the professional services robots market had a turnover of USD 6.7 billion worldwide (sample method), an increase of 12% in 2020. In addition, the turnover of new consumer service robots grew by 16% to USD 4.4 billion."

Colgate-Palmolive Co. reported third-quarter net sales of $4.41 billion, up 6.5% year-over-year.

International. Ecolab Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Purolite, a global supplier of high-end ion exchange resins for solution separation and purification, to complement its current offering of drug production and biopharmaceutical purification in the life sciences industries.

After the economic impact derived from the pandemic, it is projected that at the end of 2021, Colombia's GDP will grow 7.3% with good performance in various sectors. Therefore, it is of vital importance that the country's companies comply with an integral maintenance of their facilities both to guarantee the well-being of their work team and preserve the suitability of the infrastructures and to maintain their competitive capacity in the face of economic reactivation.