In line with an emerging trend among customer-owned goods (COG) hotel laundries to serve select customers with their own RFID-tagged linen, a Washington area operation recently reintroduced this RFID technology, along with a number of other equipment upgrades.
Textile Services Weekly recently toured several plants near Vancouver, BC, Canada, including K-Bro Linen Systems Inc.’s newest laundry facility in Burnaby, which focuses on minimizing textile “touchpoints” through automation wherever possible as part of a drive to achieve the highest level of infection-prevention control (IPC), safety and efficiency.
On a recent tour of Textile Care in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Textile Services Weekly saw a massive, multilevel, high-tech hospitality laundry in the heart of Europe.
For Gabriel Mandujano, CEO of Wash Cycle Laundry, a Philadelphia-based operator that opened a new plant last year in Boston, growth in the area’s hotel market represents a welcome recovery from the recent pandemic-driven slowdown.
For years, laundry operators have mounted cameras both in and out of laundry operations in order to enhance security and help ensure compliance with workplace policies. Now, as artificial intelligence (AI) comes to the fore, a Swedish company is taking this idea in a new direction with a camera-based AI system that analyzes safety conditions.
On Nov. 15–16, TRSA hosted its 12th Annual Healthcare Conference and Exchange in Memphis, TN. The Healthcare Conference was held in conjunction with the Sixth Annual Marketing, Sales & Service Summit, and began with a joint reception bringing both groups of industry executives together.
Textile Services Weekly recently visited commercial laundries in Ft. Myers and West Palm Beach, FL, to share insights with readers on how these companies, Premier Linen Services and Gold Coast Linen Service, are managing growth as the tourist season revs up in South Florida. Both companies reported robust sales, despite inflation and fierce competition for trade in textile services at area restaurants and hotels.
TRSA members got a clear look at robotics-driven innovations for linen and uniform service processing during a Nov. 2 webinar that portrayed automated soil-sorting and material handling, plus advanced employee personal protective equipment (PPE).
Fixed-position machines that pick, separate, grasp and feed textiles approximate the versatility of the human form and speed laundry production. For tasks that only human limbs can accomplish, emerging wearable technology may achieve the same ends and reduce injuries. Examples of such robotics will be discussed in a TRSA webinar at 2 p.m. EDT on Nov. 2, “Machines More Like People – and People More Like Machines.”
A total of 337 exhibitors from 15 countries and regions showcased their latest innovations to 27,247 attendees from 59 countries and regions this Sept. 25-27 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. The products on display at the three-day event represented some of the most up-to-date solutions in respect to automation and sustainability, according to a news release.
