To better meet the needs of the healthcare sector, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, the MIP team is focusing its efforts on innovation to develop more effective personal protective equipment (PPE) that will facilitate the work of hospital and long-term care center personnel, according to a recent company blog post.

The Top 250 Trade Shows list from Trade Show News Network (TSNN) ranks the top trade shows held in the United States each year based on net square feet of paid exhibit space. The Clean Show came in at No. 83 for the 2019 edition, according to a news release.

Ecolab’s AdvaCare™ Disinfectant recently received the first approval given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a laundry disinfectant and oxidizer emerging viral pathogen claim as effective against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. AdvaCare Disinfectant is an EPA-registered laundry disinfectant, and the concentrated formulation is permitted for use in commercial and industrial laundry operations, according to a news release.

Kemco Systems Co. LLC ( https://www.kemcosystems.com/), a Clearwater, Fla.-based designer and manufacturer of energy- and water-conservation systems, is offering a cost-effective approach for laundries to improve efficiencies with no capital investment. The all-inclusive CONSERVE program offers water-recycling-as-a-service including an opportunity to pursue TRSA’s Hygienically Clean and Clean Green certifications with support from Six Disciplines Consulting.

Erik de Vuyst, Lavatec’s senior field service engineer and a valued company employee since 1993, passed away on May 27 after a long illness. He would have turned 72 the next day, according to a news release.

TRSA recently held a webinar, titled “Part II: Roadmap and Practical Tools for Restart,” featuring Eric Kurjan, president, Six Disciplines Consulting Services; and Audrey Carmichael, senior advisor, Six Disciplines. As organizations have moved through the various phases of the pandemic (React, Reduce and Remain) – they are now beginning to look at the key parts of the Restart phase. During this phase, the steps to fully engage your organization are significant.

Catherine Mattice-Zundel, the founder of Civility Partners, a human resources consulting firm, shared steps to build a positive work environment during a recent TRSA webinar titled “Five Action Steps to a Better, More Positive Workplace Culture.” During this hour-long presentation, Mattice-Zundel pointed out that healthier workplaces are proven to promote better performance and lower turnover, and employers have the responsibility to create the opportunity and environment for employees to thrive.

We know scores of companies in the linen, uniform and facility services industry are confronting cash-flow shortages since once-thriving customers are now ailing or gone. Fortunately, recent legislation designed to help businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic could offer laundries a lifeline, as they await an expected economic recovery later this year.

Perhaps one of the biggest changes that the COVID-19 pandemic has created is the need for more people to work from home. If yours wasn’t already an environment that supported or encouraged remote work-locations, seemingly overnight we’ve been expected to not only function from home but be productive and effective too.

U.S. hotel laundry operators were rocked earlier this year by COVID-19 pandemic-related lockdown orders that squelched travel, especially business and leisure travel in March and April. But the good news is – notwithstanding the X-factor of today’s urban unrest – that hotels, particularly higher-end hotels, could recover in 2021 as robust demand drives spending.