“Does Anyone Really Care?”
By Ken Tyler

The trouble with utilization, development and management of textile care (laundry operations, linen distribution etc.) quality and excellence standards usually starts with the term, “it depends.” When someone is trying to determine the best laundry process, or the best laundry system (equipment), experts and most consultants in the textile care industry will tell you -- it depends on a troublesome number of factors. Those factors include: when you are going to use the process or a particular type of equipment, what textile item are you trying to process, how often you expect to not to be able to make your customers satisfied, how often supplies are not going to be purchased or delivered on time, etc. READ THIS STORY

Davidson Laundry System Insures a Clean Student Body
by Jim Swansbrough

DAVIDSON, N.C.— Even though it may be the first time many students at Davidson College are living away from home, they’ll still have some home-like amenities – mainly, someone else doing their laundry. For the past eighty-three years a laundry service fee has been incorporated into mandatory student charges, and it’s a price that most students and parents are happy to bear. . .READ THIS STORY

Automation and Energy Management
- PERFORMANCE KEYS AT MARRIOTT TEXTILE SERVICES
EDISON, NJ -- Originally constructed and opened in 1985 as a 35,000 square foot facility to service four properties, Marriott New Jersey Textile Services in Edison, New Jersey has grown substantially over the past seven years. They currently service over thirty Marriott hotel operations in Philadelphia, Metropolitan New York City including Westchester County and Long Island, as well as all of New Jersey. The facility handles the textiles from more than 14,000 rooms, accounting for 40 million pounds processed each year, with the capacity to handle another 10 million pounds as new properties come on board .READ THIS STORY