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  • Universal Unilink Recognizes Member Scholars

    Universal Unilink Recognizes Member Scholars

      Greer, SC — Universal Unilink – a group purchasing organization for apparel and promotional products distributors as well as uniform and textile rental companies – announced its annual college scholarship awards presented to Universal Unilink Members’ employees and their children and grandchildren who demonstrate outstanding scholastic achievement and exemplary community service. The scholarship, endowed

  • JENSEN Invests in Laundry Robotics and AI

    JENSEN Invests in Laundry Robotics and AI

    The JENSEN-GROUP has acquired a participation of 30% in Inwatec ApS, a Danish company that manufactures high-end heavy-duty laundry products. This investment in laundry robotics and AI (Artificial Intelligence) confirms the Group’s vision to automate all processes in the laundry. Inwatec’s core competence is in the field of automation, complementing the existing JENSEN product range.

  • Gurtler Purchases Metro-Chem

    Gurtler Purchases Metro-Chem

    Gurtler Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of detergents and chemicals for the commercial and industrial laundries,  has finalized the purchase of Metro-Chem, Inc. of Kearny, New Jersey.  Metro-Chem is a regional manufacturer and supplier of specialty laundry chemicals, providing service to commercial laundry markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic US.  The Metro-Chem sales and service team

  • Ecolab Scores 100 Percent on Corporate Equality Index

    Ecolab Scores 100 Percent on Corporate Equality Index

    Ecolab, a leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, has received a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2018 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. This is Ecolab’s sixth consecutive year with a

  • Finding Laundry Efficiency Gains – At Home

    Finding Laundry Efficiency Gains – At Home

    By Larry Erickson, Kannegiesser ETECH, Director of Software Development Like any motivated employee, I often find myself engulfed in deep thought about a particular work problem. Normally, these times of deep thought manifest in typical ways of deep thinkers; 30-minute showers, missing a freeway exit, or staring at my wife’s dumbfounded expression as I realize

  • UniMac Honors REM Co. with Partner Award

    UniMac Honors REM Co. with Partner Award

    UniMac, a commercial laundry equipment manufacturer, recently honored REM Co. with its prestigious Partner of the Year Award for 2017. This award is given to a distributor that combines high sales achievement and UniMac brand promotion. “Mark Moore and REM Company are industry experts and fantastic partners with a long family history with UniMac,” said

  • AmeriPride Launches Service Providing First Aid Supplies

    AmeriPride Launches Service Providing First Aid Supplies

    AmeriPride Services, a textile rental and facility services company in North America, announced the launch of a fully managed first aid service that allows customers to quickly and effectively respond to first aid emergencies and injuries. The new service offers wall-mounted first aid cabinets, eyewash stations, individually packaged over-the-counter medicines and motorist kits for fleet

  • JENSEN Announces Performance Days

    JENSEN Announces Performance Days

    The JENSEN-GROUP has announced JENSEN Performance Days – a full week exhibition on the island of Mallorca to showcase its latest innovations and present new solutions for data management and material handling. “Being customer-oriented is the most important feature of the JENSEN DNA,” says Jesper Munch Jensen, JENSEN, CEO. “In the past few years, a number

  • Continental Partners with Hills Commercial Laundry

    Continental Partners with Hills Commercial Laundry

    OSHKOSH, Wis.—Continental Girbau Inc. (Continental) recently partnered with Hills Commercial Laundry, in Anchorage, Ala., to provide on-premise laundry equipment throughout Alaska. As a result, the company will represent Continental’s complete line of on-premise washer-extractors, drying tumblers and ironers. Hills Commercial Laundry carefully examines commercial and on-premise laundry operations to provide laundry solutions that boost productivity