These days, many hotels and restaurants prefer to use professional laundry services. But in some cases, new specialized designs and technologies demonstrate the benefits of installing and operating your own laundry equipment , as mentioned in the article “Rinse and repeat” published in Foodservice Consultant magazine.
Outsourcing of laundry services is attractive because it allows you to solve the corresponding problem at a reasonable price. However, in this case, you are limited to the requirements that the laundry service provider places on the quality of the products to be washed, as well as the quality of the technological process it uses.
Recent advances in laundry technology have created cost-effective and easy-to-use solutions that make owning your own laundry a smart choice. Modern washer-extractors are efficient in using water, energy, and chemicals based on the specific items being processed, ensuring optimum results in minimal time. Ease of use is also a priority for laundry equipment manufacturers in the innovation process. Often, machines are operated by unskilled personnel who do not have sufficient experience with them or the necessary knowledge of fabrics and materials. The future is not far off when business owners will use data from equipment systems to analyze the performance of their laundry service in order to improve its efficiency.
“Our inverter washing machines feature a powerful and reliable control system that allows users to set programs tailored to their individual needs. Their intuitive interface includes visual cues to help them select the washing parameters they require,” says Christoph Cisternas, Vice President of Marketing at Alliance Laundry Systems. “The advantages of these machines are their ease of use, low noise levels during operation, large openings for easy loading of laundry, efficient water and energy consumption, and flexible operation. A sign of success for us is when the CEO does not even notice the laundry service in the daily operations of their companies – it works so efficiently and smoothly,” says Cisternas.
Among the new developments that allow for the improvement of the energy efficiency of a business, making its own laundry service a more economical solution compared to outsourcing laundry services, it is worth mentioning the possibility of adding the necessary components to ensure the reuse of water used in the last rinse stage during the pre-wash in the next load of the machine or the use of tumble dryers to supply heat to the hotel by equipping them with special heat exchange systems.
In the future, as equipment improves and new machines are released that can provide the most efficient laundry management, we will see further modernization of computerized control systems and more intensive work with data. Manufacturers and developers will have no less scope for innovation, but already now, industrial equipment for in-house laundry can radically change the productivity of many catering establishments.
“We operate exclusively in the laundry industry, so our goal is to provide our customers with the best, most specialized equipment to help them achieve the highest levels of productivity and maximum efficiency,” says Cisternas.
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