From a cleaning enterprise to a cutting-edge antimicrobial technology company.

In 2017, Speco was founded as Spic & Span Pte Ltd, a social enterprise that offered housekeeping and cleaning services to provide stable jobs to marginalised Singaporeans including ex-offenders, people with disabilities and single parents. We partnered with 91 Social Service Agencies to train, upskill and employ over 300 individuals and focussed strongly on inclusive hiring as part of our company culture.

To help our older workers and persons with disabilities have productive and meaningful work, we adopted job redesign solutions to cater their needs and leveraged on cloud software for agile manpower deployment. In adopting new cleaning technologies for efficient job completion, we improved our cleaners’ productivity by 60% and helped them to take on more value-added tasks. In 2019, we were featured by Channel News Asia’s Business Blueprints, NTUC’s LabourBeat and MOM’s Lean Enterprise Development (LED) Symposium. 

Our B Corporation Journey: Creating Technology for Good

In our efforts to find ways to improve our cleaners’ productivity to give them greater opportunities to earn progressive wages, we created Speco® in 2019 as the company’s CleanTech R&D breakthrough. With this invention, we were able to upskill our workers towards a Specialist career path, where new application technologies and systems were adopted. 

Speco® is now proudly used to protect our businesses, homes, and communities from COVID-19 in more than 200 organizations across Singapore. As a Company of Good and certified B Corporation, we continue to focus on creating technology for good to create meaningful, stable jobs whilst caring for the environment. 

In January 2021, we were delighted and grateful for President Halimah Yacob’s visit to our Speco Experience Centre to view our products and to witness our service process. We continue to commit to helping the vulnerable in Singapore and find ways to scale our social impact across industries.