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January 26, 2012
Equinox Chemicals Acquires Adco Cleaning Products

ALBANY, Ga. — Equinox Chemicals has announced that it has acquired Adco Cleaning Products, based in Sedalia, Mo. Terms of the acquisition were not announced.

Equinox will move Adco’s manufacturing operations to its state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Albany, according to Yalda Harris, Equinox’s executive vice president for Global Product Management.

Dr. Jim Schreiner, Adco’s chief product technology officer, will also be relocating, she says.

Customer-service and order-taking staff will remain in Sedalia, and there will be no changes to the way customers or distributors order from Adco, Harris adds. The national sales team will remain the same.

Equinox is a specialty chemical manufacturer with specialty research, innovation, product development and commercialization capabilities that reach markets spanning the globe, the company says.

Adco manufactures a comprehensive line of specialty cleaning chemicals and detergents used in dry cleaning, commercial laundry, and janitorial and institutional cleaning applications. It offers more than 300 proprietary products through the Adco and Laidlaw brands.

“This latest acquisition will continue our aggressive strategy to revolutionize and revitalize the laundry, dry cleaning and cleaning chemical industry,” says Mark Grimaldi, CEO of Equinox Chemicals.

Mentor Partners had owned Adco since 2007.

April 26, 2011
Shackled by Sole-Source Vendor, Laundry Officers Take Initiative to Supply Inmate Goods

SNEADS, Fla. — Two corrections officers from the Apalachee Correctional Institution (ACI) Laundry Team received Prudential-Davis Productivity Awards earlier this month for their efforts to provide inmates with sufficient linens despite delayed turnaround times and back orders from the approved vendor, the Florida Department of Corrections reports.

April 21, 2011
TRSA Webinar: Fleet Safety

To be held at 3:00 p.m. Rick Pollock, a top officer of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), will present “How Effective Fleet Safety Builds Your Bottom Line.” He'll provide insight into emerging legal and voluntary standards for conscientious driving and ergonomically conscious delivery practices. Rick founded the Direct Delivery Leadership Council, which identifies, establishes and promotes best practices for improving and integrating safety leadership, productivity and profitability for the direct delivery and service industries.

July 14, 2009
Worker Crushed by Scissor Lift at Oklahoma Linen Service Company

TULSA, Okla. — An employee of Superior Linen Service was fatally crushed June 12 when the hydraulic scissor lift he was working under fell on him, according to Officer Leland Ashley of the Tulsa Police Department.

Douglas Ray Ramey, 33, was working on a lift used to load trucks at the plant when the accident occurred. Ramey disconnected an improperly working hydraulic hose, Ashley says in quoting from the police report, and the lift fell. Ramey was trapped underneath the equipment and was pronounced dead at the scene.

June 30, 2009
Officer Disarms Gunman Near Hospital Laundry

LANCASTER, Ohio — A hospital security officer was able to disarm and detain an off-duty employee armed with a handgun near the Fairfield Medical Center’s laundry department after the suspect confronted another employee who works there, according to a news report posted on the hospital’s website.

The incident occurred before lunchtime June 13 near the second-floor laundry, according to the report from WBNS-TV, Columbus, Ohio.

February 2, 2009
Designing, Purchasing for a Laundry Requires Thinking Outside the Box

CHICAGO — About 34 years ago, I became involved in the management end of our industry. My first reaction was to sit and listen, observe, and interact with all levels of the industry, then attempt to manage at various levels.

An AmericanLaundryNews.com Exclusive

March 24, 2008
ALM Announces Candidates for National Offices

RICHMOND, Ky. – The Association for Linen Management (ALM) has approved a slate of officer candidates for election during its national conference this summer and Bart Carpenter, a laundry production coordinator from Oregon, is running unopposed for the association’s presidency.

Carpenter, who is currently ALM’s senior vice president, works at Oregon Correctional Enterprises, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution, in Madras, Ore.

February 4, 2008
What Are They Thinking?

CHICAGO — As many of you know, I had a great career in the U.S. Marine Corps. It gave me the opportunity to do just about everything from jumping out of airplanes and swimming out of submarines to training new Marines and serving as a company commander. Naturally, in the Marine Corps, you’re trained to follow orders without question — maybe this is where thinking outside of the box started.

An AmericanLaundryNews.com Exclusive

October 19, 2006
ARTA to Host Fall Membership Meeting Nov. 8

LAS VEGAS — The American Reusable Textile Association (ARTA) will host its Fall Membership Meeting here on Nov. 8, one day before the Healthcare Seminar it co-sponsors with the Textile Rental Services Association (TRSA). There's no cost for ARTA members to attend the Aladdin Resort lunch meeting, which will include reports on Clean '07, finances, membership, legislation, officer/board elections and the association's future.