A Laundry’s Most Impactful Machine
When it comes to taking the leap into automation, investing in one piece of equipment can significantly impact the business through saved labor hours and catapulted productivity. In this column,…
Large-Capacity Washers — Choosing the Right One for Your Laundry
As a vended laundry owner, it’s important to have more than just one large washer-extractor with 80- to 130-pound capacity on your business floor. You need have an offering beyond…
Programmability and Wet Cleaning Machines: Sorting out the Why’s & How To’s
A highly programmable wet cleaning machine is essential to properly cleaning a variety of items and fabrics. If you’ve got one on the floor, you can safely wet clean everything…
Why Equipment Flexibility is Key Now and into the Future
Machine flexibility is critical to how your laundry functions now and into the future. Laundry owners with flexible equipment are at an advantage. They have the ability to alter machine…
What’s the Big Deal? Are Soft-Mount Washers Really that Great?
At Girbau Industrial, we sell both soft- and hard-mount washer-extractors because they fill different needs within the market. But, if you ask me which is better in terms of laundry…
Textile Restoration & Wet Cleaning More Productive. More Effective
Seeking new ways to bolster revenue, fabricare professionals are entering the textile restoration market in droves. In doing so, they work with homeowners and insurance companies to clean and restore…
An Action Plan: When Landlords Pressure Dry Cleaners to go ‘Green’
Across the country, dry cleaning operations are facing pressure from landlords to become environmentally friendly. Oftentimes, this is because of misleading information based on the dry cleaning practices and machinery…
Uniforms are Costly. How do You Clean Them for the Greatest Longevity?
Having spent 30 years as a teacher and coach at both the high school and collegiate levels, Steve Leib understands the challenges facing athletic facilities. As a college football coach…
Best Practices in Athletic Laundry Processing
Even before Covid-19 took the world by storm, athletic programs concerned themselves with fighting and reducing the spread of potentially deadly pathogens, including HIV, Hepatitis and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA),…
How to Develop a Highly Versatile Commercial Laundry
As a commercial laundry investor, wouldn’t you like to be as certain as possible that your money and efforts result in a successful, profitable outcome? As you look to invest…