While laundry operators and employees across the U.S. spend much of their working lives around plastic molded carts used to move linens around a plant, most probably have no idea how or where this equipment is made.

That’s no longer the case for roughly 100 attendees at TRSA’s recent Production Summit & Plant Tours in Anaheim, CA, who took a Feb. 22 morning tour of the 55,000-square-foot MODRoto cart production facility in nearby La Mirada.

David Tingue, CEO of Tingue, Brown & Co. which owns and operates its Meese-MODRoto subsidiary, greeted two busloads of visitors for tours of the plant ...