Recently, we reported on Emerald Textiles’ new 84,000-square-foot (7,804-square-meter) healthcare laundry complex in Livingston, CA. This facility soon will begin processing up to 60 million lbs. (27.2 million kg) of rental textiles annually for Northern California hospitals (bit.ly/emeraldlivingston). As part of this transition, Campus Laundry, located on the campus of Monterey Bay Academy, a Seventh Day Adventist high school in La Selva Beach, CA, will see its production transferred later this year to Emerald’s plant about 106 miles northeast in Turlock, CA.

Thus will end an experiment begun in 1966 when the school had sought to provide students with “real ...