Industrial laundries seldom experience praise from major media, politicians and environmental activists, but once in a while it happens.
 
An article in the November 1977 Line Supply News related the excitement that California Gov. Jerry Brown (a.k.a. “Gov. Moonbeam”) generated when he spoke of the environmentally friendly technology used by Red Star Industrial Service in Fresno, CA (see photo above). The company earned notoriety for installing a solar energy/wastewater heat exchanger to heat washwater.
 
While solar power never caught on in U.S. laundries, the public’s recently renewed interest in energy conservation should serve as ...