SPECIAL REPORT on Laundry Facilities in Healthcare Industries

This month, Laundry Today brings you a summary of a special report addressing trends in our industry. Considered in the following report are On Premise Laundry (OPL) facilities in healthcare segments, including hospitals and long term care facilities. The Microeconomic Analyst, Inc. (TMA, Inc.,) a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based organization with over 20 years of researching experience, conducted the study between February and April 2003.
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Ozone-Applications & Benefits Of Ozone In Tunnel Washing
By Jack J. Reiff president, Wet-Tech

Tunnel washers began production in the mid 1970's. Initially, they were designed as a tube where the linen was fed in a rope-like fashion. Linen passed through several treatment baths accomplishing the wash process. Water was fed in a counter flow arrangement to the linen and chemicals were added through a hollow tube with a cup on the dip end. The feed water was interrupted at certain locations so that soil could be drained off or water could be introduced in other areas to optimize the wash, bleach, rinse and finishing of the linen. At the finishing end of the tunnel there was a large inner tube configuration, rotating, pressing and pulling the linen feed line through the Poensgen Tunnel, extracting water so linen could be collected for finishing.
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Steady Growth Leads To Expansion Of Superior Linen’s Muskogee Plant
by Petra Lattmann

TULSA, Okla. – Superior Linen Service Inc.’s laundry business, incorporated in 1984 with 20 employees, has steadily grown over the years to encompass three facilities, 350 employees and state-of-the art machinery. Serving 4,000 business customers, Superior Linen washes 600,000 pounds of linen a week and more than 1 million napkins monthly.

The family-run business which began in 1954 was started by Irving Waldman, grandfather of Doug Waldman, Superior Linen’s current president. And through the years – much has changed. To accommodate accounts which were pushing plant production to its limit, a $2 million, 10,000-square-foot expansion was added to the Muskogee, Okla. plant.
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