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Christeyns UK opens up with Leadership Conference
UK Hygiene chemical specialist Christeyns UK has held its first live event since 2019, to review, reconnect and plan for the future. The Christeyns Leadership Conference last month set out to bring its key management team back together face to face to focus on value, performance and team working.
TRSA 108th conference opens in California
USA
The TRSA 108th annual conference opend for business today in person and on line in California, 19-21 October, at the Hilton Cape Rey Carlsbad Beach resort hotel and spa. The TRSA annual event attracts nearly 200 CEOs, senior executives, owners, vice presidents, CFOs, COOs, regional vice presidents, general managers and more from operators that supply, launder and maintain linens, uniforms and garments processed worldwide.
Rinnai prescribes hot water solutions for healthcare laundries
UK Rinnai can offer limitless hot water for all healthcare sites urgently needing instant, continuous, precise temperature-controlled hot water for thermal/chemical disinfection that is economic and with a light carbon footprint. The company also dangles the carrot of major savings of 30% possible on each site to operators.
TSA takes ‘snapshot’ survey to gauge laundry industry’s values
UK
The Textile Services Association (TSA) has teamed up with Brands with Values, an organisational culture experience company, to launch the Laundry with Values survey. This is aimed at discovering how the commercial laundry industry perceives itself and what values it holds, with a particular focus on inclusion.
Christeyns/Veride collaboration reduces fresh water use to 0.5 litres per kg linen
INTERNATIONAL Christeyns, the international detergent supplier, and Veride, the internationally active Belgian company which develops systems to purify and reuse water, are about to bring about a revolution in the Professional Textile Care industry (PTC), according to Christeyn.. The two companies are launching technology that promises to reduce fresh water consumption to an absolute minimum and provide process water of the best quality.
TSA conference 2021 fizzes and zings with positivity
UK
UPDATED REPORT: The first TSA conference since 2019 was an event that educated, inspired, amused and invigorated and was just what the industry needed at this time, writes Kathy Bowry. It was a real zinger of an event at a time when circumstances seem to be conspiring against the industry, it was like finding a huge sparkling diamond in a dung heap. Waves of positive energy emanated from the speakers behind the lectern and delegates alike, despite the very serious situation of rocketing fuel costs, cotton hitting its highest prices, lack of tourists, labour shortages, shipping container costs spiralling ever upwards, and those examples are just a few of many dispiriting factors.
TRSA member Aladco sells linen rental business
USA
Aladco Linen Services, Adams, Massachusetts, has sold its rental business to private independent investors. James Gutheim & Associates, Encino, California, served as the financial adviser in the sale, according to a news release.
All-Party Parliamentary Group calls for mandatory micro fibre filtration on washing machines
UK The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Microplastics, set up in 2020, has released a report demanding Parliament to pass legislation mandating micro fibre filtration in all domestic and commercial washing machines by 2025.
TRSA: California leg pushes Reopening Tour clock to nearly 6,000 miles
USA
TRSA’s three Reopening Tour legs have generated unprecedented information-sharing through personally reporting these meetings’ highlights to members at subsequent stops on each leg and generating social media posts for industry stakeholders to view everywhere as the trips proceeded. The legs consisted of two 2,500-mile-plus mile road trips with staff driving to meet members through 14 US states and a fly/drive covering more than 600 miles in California.
TSA conference 2021: All together now
UK
The first Textile Services Association conference since Autumn 2019 was a real zinger. At a time when circumstances seem to be conspiring against the industry to make tough times as tough as they possibly can be, it was like finding a huge sparkling diamond in a dung heap. Waves of positive energy emanated from the speakers behind the lectern and from delegates alike, despite the very serious situation of rocketing fuel costs, cotton hitting its highest prices, lack of tourists, labour shortages, shipping container costs spiralling ever upwards, and those examples are just a few of many dispiriting factors.