Step into the 35,000-square-foot Afonwen Laundry & Linen Hire plant in Reading, England, and it’s as if you’re standing by a rushing “river of white”… linens that is. White hospitality linens to be specific. 
 
They flow in a brisk current from incoming soil carts, to slings, to one of two Kannegiesser PowerTrans tunnel washers or several washer/extractors for processing of roughly half a million pieces per week. Then it’s on to finishing in a Kannegiesser steam tunnel or one of three ironer lines. Lastly, finished goods are packed out and loaded aboard blue and white trucks, or ...