Getting Squeeky clean Squeeky Laundry sees a 90% success rate on linen processed with Regenex ‘magic’.
Award-winning Squeeky Linen and Laundry Services is saving carbon and money by making the most of every item of linen stock with help from Regenex, the stain and discolouration removal specialists.
A total of 3000kg of bedding, towels, and tableware has been processed so far for the Wiltshire-based business in three consignments.
A recent Textile Services Association survey identified that 80% of all hospitality linen is disposed of before the end of its useful life due to stains, rips, holes, and losses. Stains are by far the biggest problem – yet the vast majority of blemished linen can be rescued and returned to circulation by Regenex.
Squeeky is one of 20 industrial laundries across the UK and Ireland now working with Regenex, with orders amounting to over 1000 tonnes of linen to date. By decreasing volumes of new linen being bought, these customers are able to reduce their carbon emissions and therefore those of the hospitality and healthcare providers they serve.
Claire Nicholas, Managing Director of Squeeky, said: “The team at Regenex has really been working their magic on our stock. By bringing these items back into action, Regenex has saved us thousands of pounds and a lot of carbon as well.
“This is especially timely given our rising costs, including energy bills. Due to an upturn in enquiries for new business, we are in need of more linen and towels and this is a great way to boost our stocks.
“I’m a total advocate of the Regenex process and I will shout from the rooftops that other laundries should consider this option too, over throwing good items away, or giving them to the rag man.”
In Squeeky Linen's latest batch of marked linen received by Regenex, 90.6% was passed as commercially reusable – in total, 897kg of the 990kg that would have otherwise
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have been condemned. This follows an 80% return on the previous consignment.
Regenex’s Technical Director, Paul Hamilton, said: “This represents a good financial outcome for Squeeky – and most certainly a very good environmental benefit to this laundry. We’re delighted to be working together with this innovative and forward-thinking customer.”
Voted SME laundry of the year at the LADAs (Laundry and Drycleaning Awards) in 2020, Squeeky is headquartered in Chippenham and provides linen hire and commercial laundry services in north and west Wiltshire, Swindon, Gloucester, Bath, and surrounding areas. The company is a member of the National Laundry Group and the Textile Services Association.
Based in West Yorkshire, Regenex is a multi-award-winning industrial laundry service company. Calling upon its heritage in textile scouring and expertise in chemistry, the team patented a complex but gentle cleaning multi-bath system to remove heavy stains and discolouration from good linen that would otherwise be condemned.
Paul explained: “Our customers call us their ‘third wash’ after routine cycles and hot ‘kill or cure’ attempts. Though Squeeky’s returns were a little higher than average, the Regenex treatment is successful on 75 to 80% of marks – from concrete and rust to food, fake tan and make-up, iodine, mould, and mildew.”
Laundries drop their linen off at Regenex’s environmentally permitted site in Bradford for processing. Each piece is individually quality-checked following treatment and only those considered commercially acceptable are returned.
Any linen rejected by Regenex is baled and sold to licensed merchants. The whole process does not create any material for landfill and the hot water used is a by-product of onsite textile dyeing processes.
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