Alsco Inc.’s Jon Ambler understands that saving pennies per hundred weight of processed laundry can mean the difference between profit and loss in the highly competitive food & beverage (F&B) sector of textile services. That’s why Ambler, general manager for Alsco’s 60,000-square-foot plant in Alexandria, VA, paid close attention when he learned about a June 2005 Textile Rental article (pg. 96) on evaporation credits.
 
“That’s where we heard about it,” says Ambler, an industry veteran who joined Alsco in 2009 after several years in management with G&K Services Inc. “I hadn’t been responsible for a facility where ...