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Report shows washing nurses’ uniforms in domestic machines is a danger to health
UK
More than 700,000 nurses in the UK wash their uniforms at home. The figure is even higher when taking into account other healthcare workers. The NHS encourages nurses to maintain and care for healthcare workwear at home, even where outsourcing to a commercial laundry is available. But world class research shows domestic washing machines are inadequate decontaminators.
Unusual care labels -1
In the first of two features, Roger Cawood and Richard Neale find solutions to the recurring problem of unusual care labels
Let’s talk stains – 4
In the fourth part of Roger Cawood’s series on stain removal he talks through the art of using a spotting table
Laundry engineering for healthcare
Richard Neale of LTC Worldwide is keen to offer healthcare engineers and production staff the best advice on how to optimise every stage of the process and troubleshoot problems before they arise
Grey day for a white wedding dress
SPECIAL REPORT: Our resident experts Roger Cawood and Richard Neale respond to a reader’s problem with a wedding Gown
Shoulders back…
Howard Bradley looks back with wry humour to the age of massive shoulder pads and the rather less glamorous donkey jacket craze
Transparent recycled bottle count for Carrington sustainable workwear
UK/INTERNATIONAL
Global workwear textile manufacturer, Carrington Textiles, can now certify the number of plastic bottles recycled to produce every metre of the company’s sustainable workwear polycotton, Delamere 195, aiming to add more transparency to the company’s supply chain and offer customers environmentally friendly fabrics with added value.
CINET seminar focuses on robotisation at EXPODetergo
INTERNATIONAL
The immense transformation of the industry was demonstrated by the CINET webinar; “Robotization & Automation for Sustainable Processing?” in which worldwide leading suppliers of these new technologies, Laundry Robotics (find them on the Biko stand), Inwatec/Jensen and Kannegiesser presented the practical advantages of available technologies. They are ready for use and creating a new future for the laundry industry; higher productivity, better efficiency, less human labour needed for heavy and/or dangerous work, leading to 100% automated processing at short notice.
SoCom sees great interest in digitalisation at EXPODetergo
INTERNATIONAL
At the SoCom stand (G21 – H3) “It was clearly noticeable that the topic of digitalisation and paperless production 4.0 has experienced an even stronger upswing in the last two years. The very great interest in our IT solutions was unrestrained on all four days of the trade fair,” said Michael Wieser, sales director of SoCom. “Innovative app and web solutions and software modules for an efficient and resource-oriented workflow are more in demand than ever.”
Kannegiesser’s SynchroPro linen feeder is a crowd puller at EXPODetergo
INTERNATIONAL
The Kannegiesser booth at this year’s EXPODetergo has been incredibly busy so far, reported the company, saying: “We are very happy about the large number of guests at our booth and the immense interest in our newest innovations for the textile care industry. One of the big crowd pullers in our booth is our new SynchroPro Remote.”