Effective laundry soil sorting and wash-aisle processing calls for the efficient, yet precise, movement of textile goods—whether flatwork or garments—throughout the plant. This is especially true for the opening steps of preparing rental or customer-owned textiles for an eventual return to customers as clean items. “Our goal is to do it as seamlessly as possible,” says Jon Locke, director of operations at Prudential Overall Supply, Irvine, CA. “It obviously starts at the customer level, with the truck.”

Locke offered an overview of soil sort and wash aisle best practices during a recent visit that Textile Services made to the company’s ...