Laundry and Drycleaning News
Stay up to date with the latest laundry and cleaning industry updates, we cover everything from technology, drycleaning, events to the environmental issues, management and industry trends.
Electrolux reopens Center of Excellence
Electrolux Professional reopens its Center of Excellence Electrolux Professional has reopened its Center of Excellence in Luton, incorporating a number of measures to ensure customers can take advantage of the space in a Covid secure way. A one-way system has been integrated to ensure [...]
Energy for the future
Energy for the future - sustainability in laundry Janice Raycroft reports. "We expect all commercial deliveries within a decade will be by electric vehicles unless hydrogen-powered vehicles become economically viable. The days of polluting diesels are numbered." - [...]
Miele de-creases business laundry challenges
Miele de-creases business laundry challenges with new ironing solution The professional division of Miele has launched its Professional PIB 100 steam ironing system. Designed with ease and convenience at its core, the PIB 100 is the ideal ironing solution for time-poor hospitality or care [...]
CleanEx & Hospitality Expo: Statement from the organisers
CleanEx & Hospitality Expo: Statement from the organisers The event is now set for April 2022 We recently had to take a step back and review the plans for CleanEx and Hospitality Expo. The vaccination rollout and the government roadmap are currently heading in the right [...]
Laundrapp to launch drone pickup and delivery
Laundrapp to launch drone pickup and delivery Laundrapp has announced plans to launch a new laundry service that will see customer’s laundry picked up and delivered by drone. Following in the footsteps of Royal Mail and Amazon Prime Air, Laundrapp will work with its commercial suppliers [...]
Reckitt creates partnership between Oxwash and Vanish
Reckitt creates partnership between Oxwash and Vanish to tackle ‘unacceptable clothing waste’ Reckitt’s London-based purpose-led venture arm, has announced a new strategic partnership between Oxwash and heritage clothes care brand Vanish. The ‘Oxwash, powered by Vanish’ partnership will see Oxwash use the new Vanish sustainable formula [...]
In Focus: Sarah Lancaster
In Fous: Sarah Lancaster About Sarah Lancaster Sarah Lancaster is MD of Total Laundry Ltd in Chichester. She purchased the business in 2013, having previously worked as a Civil Servant, a broadcast assistant with the BBC, a TV extra and sometimes voiceover presenter. She [...]
Electrolux awarded top employer status
Electrolux awarded top employer status For the fifth year in a row, the Top Employers Institute has awarded Electrolux Top Employer status in the UK and Ireland for creating exceptional employee conditions and being an advanced employer. Electrolux stood out in the areas of business strategy, [...]
100 tonnes saved from landfill
Regenex and Celtic Linen hit 100 tonnes of hospitality and healthcare textiles successfully processed Commercial linen stain removal expert Regenex and forward-thinking laundry, Celtic Linen, have reached the landmark volume of 100 tonnes of items saved from rag or landfill and returned to stock. [...]
Laundry Efficiency strives for the next level
Laundry Efficiency continues to strive for the next level of technology Laundry Efficiency has launched their new product ‘Wash and Protect’ ...which they say does exactly what it says, “when you are washing with this new innovated product, you are making your product bacteria [...]
Girbau and HeiQ join forces
Girbau and HeiQ join forces to “viroblock” clothes and textiles by a new laundering process Girbau has partnered with functional materials innovation leader HeiQ to use HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03 in the laundry process. HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03 is an antiviral and antimicrobial textile technology, that [...]
Business is blooming
Business is blooming for the Home and Dry team Taking a very pragmatic approach to the effects of the pandemic, Home and Dry garment care and home service has opened three facilities since the start of the Covid crisis. The latest addition, a brand-new receiving [...]
Data at your fingertips
Data at your fingertips: Technology trends in the laundry and drycleaning industry Ironing out the creases is the easy bit for textile care professionals, it’s the numbers and the ‘paperwork’ that keep the business running effectively and efficiently that can need smoothing out. Owners [...]
Calls for white goods laws
Miele Professional calls for white goods law to be rolled out to commercial sector The government recently announced plans to ensure longer life guarantees for domestic goods including fridges, washing machines and TVs. However, the Professional division of Miele, which provides laundry equipment to [...]
One year on and there’s no looking back
One year on and there’s no looking back for drycleaner turned wetcleaner Existing Renzacci UK customer, 2Hr Smart Clean, was looking to replace their old Renzacci perc drycleaning machine, as it was approaching the end of its working life. Shop owner, Atique Qureshi, was open to [...]
On-demand laundry platform raises $3.5m
On-demand laundry platform Laundryheap raises $3.5m Laundryheap, the on-demand laundry and drycleaning platform founded in the UK in 2014, recently announced a $3.5m Series A funding round led by Sova VC. This raise follows years of steady growth where Laundryheap has focused on building a sustainable [...]
Wolf Laundry goes for growth
Wolf Laundry goes for growth after completing deal to buy major competitor Commercial equipment specialist Wolf Laundry has completed the acquisition of one of its main rivals as it embarks on its next ambitious growth phase. The Yorkshire-headquartered business has bought Brewer & Bunney, [...]
TSA make waves across the channels
Textile Services Association (TSA) make waves across the channels In a recent update to members the TSA report that their lobbying activities have seen some momentum and the interest in the industry has really increased over the past few weeks. There has been much wider [...]
TSA comments on the budget
David Stevens, CEO of the TSA comments on the budget: The commercial laundry industry is left in Jeopardy Of course it’s good that the furlough scheme has been extended to September. We're happy that the Chancellor has also announced a new recovery loan scheme, [...]
Shah’s brand new book
Shah interviews remarkable people in brand new book We’re delighted to share that Vikas Shah MBE has just published his first book. Shah is well-known in the laundry industry as managing director of Swiscot Group, the Manchester based textiles firm. Swiscot Group includes Linen [...]
‘Dibella up’ records first big success
‘Dibella up’ laundry recycling programme records its first big success “Dibella up” is bearing its first fruits. Since the launch of the recycling concept initiated in August 2020, six tonnes of sorted laundry items have already been returned to Dibella and converted into new ones by [...]
Antibacterial membranes for laundry water extraction
First antibacterial membranes for water extraction presses in laundry Maxi-Press has launched the world’s first antibacterial membrane for all common water extraction presses in laundry, says the company. The manufacturer developed the new “ Anti-Bact” membranes to permanently reduce the risk of bacterial contamination [...]
Industry charity reminding of ongoing support
Latest lockdown prompts laundry industry charity to remind of ongoing support As the New Year starts, and with it in lockdown 3.0, Laundry & Cleaning Today caught up with industry charity the Fashion & Textile Children’s Trust (FTCT) to find out how the ongoing pandemic is [...]
Healthcare uniforms should be commercially laundered
Research confirms that healthcare uniforms should be commercially laundered Viruses similar to the strain that causes Covid can survive on clothing and transmit to other surfaces for up to 72 hours, scientists at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) have warned. In a study looking at how coronavirus behaves on [...]
Regenex dyes 100,000 NHS scrub suits
Regenex dyes 100,000 NHS scrub suits to equip Nightingale hospitals Commercial linen stain removal specialist, Regenex, has used its textile dyeing expertise to colour 100,000 medical scrub suits for future use on healthcare frontlines. The white workwear, ordered for emergency use, has been dyed [...]
