Who are Ecolab customers?

Ecolab customers are a wide range of businesses and institutions across many industries that need water treatment, hygiene, cleaning, and infection prevention solutions, as Ecolab is a business-to-business company, not consumer retail. Major customer segments include hospitality, such as hotels, restaurants, and quick service restaurants like McDonald's, which uses Ecolab for kitchen cleaning and sanitation. Food and beverage processing companies, such as breweries, dairy plants, and meat processing, use Ecolab for water treatment and food safety cleaning. Healthcare customers include hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities that use Ecolab infection prevention, hand hygiene, and surgical instrument cleaning products. Other customers include manufacturing plants, power plants, and refineries that use Ecolab's water treatment through Nalco Water division to prevent corrosion and scale in boilers and cooling towers. Laundries, commercial laundries, and textile care companies use Ecolab laundry detergents. Retail grocery stores use Ecolab for produce wash and cleaning. Schools, universities, and government buildings use Ecolab cleaning products. Essentially, any large institution that needs to clean, sanitize, treat water, or prevent infection is potential customer, with over 3 million customer locations in 170 countries, including large chains like Marriott, Starbucks, and major hospitals.