TRSA’s 12th Annual Healthcare Conference & Exchange is planned for Nov. 15-16 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN.

September’s Textile Services magazine will feature critical insights from a leading insurer of commercial laundries on the ins and outs of protecting your business against cyber attacks.

Attendees at TRSA’s upcoming 110th Annual Conference this Oct. 10-12 in Naples, FL, can look forward to a keynote address by one of the leading marketing practitioners in the world today, Andrew Davis. A best-selling author and CEO of Monumental Shift, Davis will bring impeccable credentials to his Oct. 12 address. He’ll tackle a range of issues confronting today’s business leaders, with an emphasis on the role of creativity in leveraging growth. Below are excerpts from a recent interview Davis did with Textile Services Weekly.

Wildman Business Group (WBG), an independent industrial launderer based in Warsaw, IN, recently announced a merger with WM Uniform, Holland, MI.

The JENSEN-GROUP, Burgdorf, Switzerland, the parent company of JENSEN USA Inc., recently reported revenue for the first half of 2022 of 171.2 million euros ($172 million) – an increase of 37.8% vs. the same period last year, according to a news release. JENSEN officials attribute the earnings spike to a backlog of orders from the end of 2021 and strong orders from early this year.

Public officials in San Marcos, TX, recently announced the opening of a new “robotic” hospitality laundry operated by Cooperative Laundry of Kearney, NJ, that’s expected to bring 100 new jobs to the city located roughly 30 minutes southwest of the Texas capital of Austin.

As part of TRSA’s Next-Generation Executives Committee meeting on June 15 in Chicago, 20-plus leaders of their companies toured the Roscoe Co. plant on the city’s west side. The business is now celebrating its 100th anniversary as a family-owned-and-operated independent industrial laundry.

The cover article in this month’s Textile Services focuses on a series of plant innovations. Common themes among the operators cited in this piece, titled “Innovation – ‘Every Problem Is an Opportunity,'” include breakthroughs in automation, resource conservation and ergonomics. Highlights from the article appear below.

Michael Rogers, an award-winning journalist, columnist, publisher, novelist and tech analyst who’s commonly referred to as the “practical futurist,” will give a keynote address titled “What Comes After COVID?” on Nov. 17 at TRSA’s Healthcare Conference in Plano, TX. To give attendees an idea of what to expect at the conference, Rogers, who recently completed two years as a “futurist in residence” at The New York Times, agreed to answer a few questions from Textile Services Weekly on his upcoming talk.

Cooperative Laundry, a Kearny, NJ-based hospitality launderer, has plans to open a 90,000-square-foot facility in San Marcos, TX, roughly 35 miles south of Austin, according to news reports.