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June 18, 2009

NEW ORLEANS — There’s a cost to “greening” your laundry operation, but there are ways you can protect the environment without breaking the bank, Ed Kwasnick, president of Turn-Key Industrial Engineering Services, suggested during an early-morning educational session today at Clean ’09.

January 2, 2009

“With the economy in the shape that it’s in, we’re looking for new business anywhere we can find it. But aren’t there times when serving certain accounts doesn’t make sound business sense? Can you suggest some criteria that I can use to weigh the pros and cons of providing textile services to a new account, whatever and wherever it may be?”

April 5, 2007

ELMHURST, Ill. — Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare (EMHC) weighed all of its options, including outsourcing, but ultimately decided it wanted to keep its laundry in-house. The west suburban Chicago health system relocated the service last month from Elmhurst Memorial Hospital to its newly expanded Business Operations Center some two miles away.

October 14, 2006

As competition heats up between laundry service providers and growing customer demands require more production flexibility and output, the laundry industry embraces the latest in process automation to keep pace.

Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the textile rental and industrial laundry segment, where companies often process large quantities of uniforms and textiles on extremely tight schedules.

Much has been written about the production capabilities of automated batch-washing systems over the years.

July 6, 2006

GOOCHLAND, Va. — The laundry at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women recently switched to using a nonphosphorus detergent as the state investigates the source of foam found in the James River, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

Water samples taken in early June detected extremely high levels of phosphorus, which can fuel the growth of algae.

Some witnesses have reported seeing the white, lacy foam covering the river from bank to bank, the newspaper reports.