Following rising COVID-19 cases in China, the organizers of Texcare Asia & China Laundry Expo (TXCA & CLE) have decided to defer the fair to 2023 in Shanghai. The trade show was previously scheduled to be held this Nov. 17–19 in Ningbo, according to a news release.
Take an hour to meet with the best contacts to get ideas for performance improvement by participating in a TRSA Virtual Roundtable on Wednesday, Oct. 12 or Thursday, Oct. 13. These customer-industry market-specific events will emphasize information-sharing by industry executives and managers in small-group discussions of today’s most pressing operational challenges.
JENSEN USA celebrated on Oct. 5 the reopening of its Panama City, FL, facility that was severely damaged by Hurricane Michael. The reopening of the expanded 120,000-square-foot facility was five days shy of the storm’s fourth anniversary.
To help support recruitment and retention of employees, TRSA has unveiled a new resources webpage featuring interviews with members’ managers and staff.
A Clean Show seminar July 30 featured a panel of entrepreneurs in linen, uniform and facility services who started in consumer (retail) laundry. They shared strategies and tactics to support audience members pursuing or considering the same. Panelists discussed numerous aspects of laundry and service operations, from the genesis of their forays into the business-to-business realm to the present-day challenges of linen and uniform service in the wake of COVID-19.
Philippe and Sylvie D’heygere, the leadership team at Lapauw, found in CIM Capital a strong and experienced financial partner to further grow the Lapauw Group, with a focus on ecological, energy- and labor-efficient installations, according to a news release.
The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortages brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic proved to be an opportunity for a Virginia health system to not only address supply chain issues, but also to improve its environmental footprint, according to a news release.
Foot traffic analytics platform Placer.ai recently quantified the COVID-induced impacts on various industries that represent a significant portion of the facility services market, identifying how recent changes in consumer behavior are hurting some segments of these industries while helping others.
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.
An anticipated increase in U.S. adult inpatient days points to increased demand for textiles for acute and tertiary care. That’s a plus for linen, uniform and facility services operators who serve those facilities, while posing an additional challenge: taking advantage of the spillover growth into other patient-care settings often more difficult for the industry to serve.
