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CLEAN’s Ross-on-Wye laundry celebrates 15th anniversary
CLEAN’s Ross-on-Wye laundry celebrates 15th anniversary Linen laundry supplier CLEAN has celebrated 15 years at its Ross-on-Wye site.One of CLEAN’s seven well-invested laundry production facilities, the Ross-on-Wye site celebrated the business milestone with a party for the entire production and senior management team, including a cake [...]
Major fire at Johnsons in Exeter
Major fire at Johnsons in Exeter A major fire took hold in a building belonging to Johnsons Apparelmaster in Exeter on Saturday 25 January. The fire was widely reported in the news and no-one was injured but police had to close the road and [...]
Electrolux appoints GM
Electrolux appoints GM role for UK & Ireland Electrolux has promoted Luke Harding to the role of general manager UK and Ireland.Harding comes into the role with a thorough understanding of the Electrolux UK & Ireland business having held high profile positions since joining in 2016. [...]
Cutting edge product protects linen
Christeyns tackles stains with cutting edge product to protect hotel linen Hygiene chemicals specialist Christeyns has developed an innovative laundry product soon to be available for commercial laundries in the UK market. Towel stain sample – left with Smart Shield and right, without The [...]
NLG conference report
NLG conference report The NLG end of year gathering took place at the Doubletree Hilton in Leeds in December. With sponsorship from Vision Support Services, Ecolab and JENSEN, looking after your linen was key to the presentations. Kicking off the presentations was Ian Stubbs [...]
Fourth retro Bubbles Laundromat opens in Milton Keynes
Fourth retro Bubbles Laundromat opens in Milton Keynes Bubbles Laundromat, an independent chain of award winning retro laundromats, announced the opening of their fourth store in Milton Keynes just before Christmas. Unlike stereotypical launderettes, the award-winning laundromat are known for their bright retro theme, [...]
CleanEx 2020 ready to take Ascot glory in April
CleanEx 2020 ready to take Ascot glory in April There’s just over a couple of months to go until all the runners and riders line up at the legendary Ascot Racecourse for the fifth CleanEx 2020 - the UK’s only exhibition for the laundry, [...]
Johnsons Workwear shortlisted for awards
Johnsons Workwear shortlisted for customer service awards Johnsons Workwear shortlisted for customer service awards. Johnsons Workwear has demonstrated its commitment to a positive customer experience by being shortlisted for two awards in the prestigious Institute of Customer Service UK Customer Satisfaction Awards 2020. The [...]
JSG acquire Fresh Linen for £12.5 million
Johnson Service Group acquires Fresh Linen for £12.5 million Johnson Service Group has announced a year of strong strategic and operational performance in their trading update to the end of 2019. Their £10 million investment plan in a new high volume linen plant in [...]
Eco laundry bags
Eco laundry bags disappear safely, saving the environment and money Hot water-soluble laundry bags, made from Aquapak polymer have been made available in the UK by Australian distributor, DB Packaging.The bags can be used to contain dirty or contaminated laundry and can be put directly into [...]
Elis supplied new fleet of vehicles
Ryder supplies 162 new vehicles to Elis Ryder, a leading independent provider of commercial vehicle rental, contract hire, and maintenance services in the UK, is supplying 162 new DAF Euro 6 vehicles to international textile, hygiene and facilities services specialist Elis. This is the [...]
Finishing equipment – Pressing the point home
Pressing the point home It’s been said before and it’s worth saying again, no matter how good a wash is, the end results will always be judged by the finish. Badly ironed items and garments riddled with creases look bad and send the wrong [...]
Die-hard dry cleaner converts to wet cleaning
Die-hard dry cleaner converts to wet cleaning Samuels of Shropshire approached Renzacci UK looking to replace their 20-year old dry cleaning machine.They found their existing system incredibly expensive to operate and maintain, so were keen to replace it with a system that was reliable and offers [...]
Christeyns strategy day
Christeyns UK holds second group strategy day in preparation for 2030 The senior management team at chemicals specialist Christeyns met last week to discuss strategies to ensure the company is “Fit for 2030”. Managers from all of the Christeyns UK businesses met at the [...]
Industry entrepreneur launches partnership
Industry entrepreneur launches partnership to help community dress for success A new clothes borrowing scheme has opened-up in Brixton thanks to a partnership between local business ihateironing and Lambeth Council’s libraries service.Created to offer support to the local community, the new partnership allows job seekers [...]
Electrolux’s Line 6000 series
Intelligent ergonomics at the heart of next-generation washer from Electrolux Professional Electrolux Professional has placed the operator at the heart of its latest innovation in commercial washing machines: the Line 6000 series.With the laundry industry still heavily reliant on human involvement in the loading and unloading [...]
Ask the expert
Ask the expert - Increasing ironer capacity. Choose gas or steam? In this new regular feature for launderers and drycleaners we’ll be turning to industry specialist Andy Marsh for some expert guidance and sound, practical advice to help you to get the most out of [...]
Miele appoints new head of sales
Miele appoints new head of professional sales for the UK The Professional division of Miele, has appointed Simon Venni as its new head of professional sales UK. Venni brings a wealth of experience to his role, having spent almost 20 years with Imperial Brands (formerly Imperial [...]
Report: TSA Congress
Report: The National TSA Congress The TSA National Congress, a new format and a new title for the team at the Textile Service Association. The Congress was by invitation only and open to TSA premium supplier partners, CEOs and laundry owners. The Laundry & Cleaning Today [...]
Christy enters laundry market
Global textile giant enters laundry supply chain Welspun UK is the latest company to bring textile supply to the market for laundries and hotels. Mumbai headquar tered Welspun is the largest privately owned company to be floated on the Indian Stock Exchange. They are [...]
Clean donates towels
CLEAN donates 500 towels to charity CLEAN has donated 500 towels to charity through its Slough Laundry and hotel customers Marriott Marble Arch and Andaz London Liverpool Street.The laundry received requests from the two hotels to donate towels to charities they work with to support homeless [...]
Swiss Laundry sells Cambridge site
Swiss Laundry cleans up with sale of Cambridge site Swiss Laundry has completed the sale of its Cambridge site as it moves operations to a new purpose-built commercial laundry at Papworth Business Park. Mark Turvill, director at Swiss Laundry, which had been operating at the Cherry [...]
New apprentice at Christeyns
Let’s get chemical Harry Coop has joined Bradford based detergent, hygiene and construction chemical manufacturer, Christeyns on a four-year chemical engineering apprenticeship, studying part time at Bradford University. Works manager, Neville Kildunne, who runs the apprenticeship recruitment and training at Christeyns, comments; “It is [...]
Industry support business after fire
Industry rally to support business after fire Home and Dry Laundries suffered a small fire with extensive smoke damage on 11 April 2019 at their main processing facility based in Chichester, West Sussex. The cause of the fire was undetermined. Julia Willkins, principal at [...]
Laundry trolleys and cages
Wheely clever - trolleys and cages for laundry Janice Raycroft reports on the features and engineering detail behind the latest trolleys and cages on the market It’s easy to think that the most ingenious solutions to laundry operation are hidden inside the computerised and [...]
