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New barrier washers from Electrolux Professional
INTERNATIONAL
Electrolux Professional has announced the launch of its new Line 6000 Pullman series of high-capacity barrier washers, for use in a broad range of sensitive environments. The Line 6000 Pullman series provides a unique-to-industry combination of ergonomic and intuitive operation, high-productivity, and trustable hygiene programs. As a result, the new barrier washer series can support the dynamic needs of laundry professionals across a variety of healthcare applications, as well as commercial and industrial environments with strict particle contamination requirements such as clean room operations and the pharmaceutical and food processing industries.
Leading the way: A remarkable road to sustainability
Girbau is committed to making a positive impact on people and the planet and set an industry standard
All set for growth in in years to come
India’s laundry and drycleaning sector is steadily developing, thanks to ongoing economic growth and ever rising demand for high quality textile services. Eugene Gerden reports
Overcoming inertia
There is an inherent inertia in companies, societies, and individuals which makes small changes difcult and large changes almost impossible. It is like brushing your teeth with the wrong hand, says Steen Søgaard
Pressing business
Pairing big ironers and energy savings seems like a contradiction in terms but great strides have been made to ensure they are extremely frugal in their fuel use
Greener days are dawning
We hear a lot about how we should be greener in our day-to-day working life so we thought we would find out what industry players are doing about it
Snowy landscape dazzles diners
There is nothing quite like sitting at a table dressed with the best quality restaurant linen to reinforce the assurance that you are having a special dining experience. LCNi looks at tableware trends with Richard Haworth’s Raj Ruia
Accidents will happen
Pulled threads and yarn slippage are a problem all drycleaners have and will experience. Roger Cawood has some remedies to share
Laundry engineering for flatwork – Part 1
The importance of the laundry engineer (or engineering team) continues to grow, to support the considerable improvements in laundry efficiency and productivity seen in the last ten years. As mechanisation and automation drives laundry processing to ever higher outputs, the contributions from the skills and knowledge of the laundry engineer have also become vital to safe operation and product quality. This knowledge must cover not only basic laundry engineering but also areas such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and the emergence of robotics, with all the advantages which these can bring!
Greying: it’s not an age thing
Greying is not a sign of ageing textiles but a problem prompted by a variety of causes. Roger Cawood and Richard Neale explore ways to prevent this happening