Central Laundries
Experience
Central Laundries
This is our fastest growth segment, with entrepreneurs opening a central laundry to service multiple customers, with many offering services to the booming Air B&B market.
With increasing labour costs, businesses are increasingly outsourcing their laundry to automated facilities.
Production
Central Laundries
Most on-premise laundries in New Zealand process less than one ton per shift, whereas central laundries manage larger volumes sourced from multiple facilities. We therefore classify central laundries according to the following categories.
Small
250KG per hour or 2 tons per shift
Customer owned goods & considering linen rental
Manually loading washers / dryers
Medium
500KG per hour or 4 tons per shift
Linen rental
Manually loading washers / dryers
Large
Above 1000KG per hour or 8 tons per shift
Linen rental
Automatically loading washers / dryers with custom designed CBW facility
Automation -500KG p/h
Central Laundries
Although we can’t automate the loading of washers / dryers in small or medium laundries, we are able to automate flatwork ironing & towel folding, so recommend this as soon as possible to reduce labour costs.
An ironer with an automated feeder saves 1 person’s labour cost, when adding an automated folder, this saves another 2 people, cutting labour from 4 to 1 person. This often leads to a payback period of 2 to 4 years depending on production numbers.
A towel folder automates folding at 5 seconds per towel, along with sorting of up to 4 types of towels, simplifying production & allowing terry batch washing. Although these are capable of 1000 towels per hour, the medium number is 600 towels per hour & can be justified as early as 100 towels per hour or 800 towels per shift.
Rewash
Central Laundries
A small percentage of rewash is expected in all central laundries, with 5% being the maximum accepted by managers. Too achieve 0% rewash is unrealistic & trying to achieve this will lead to accelerated linen degradation, as chemistry needs to be dialled up to the moon, good for the chemical company if on drum rates & terrible for linen replacement cycles.
Recommendation is to request a per KG rate for production from your chemical supplier, which reduces your chemical bill & linen degradation, as they are motivated to reduce dosing, while keeping rewash levels low & the relationship honest.
Equipment
Central Laundries
Production type is the foundation of solution design, which is why it is the first area our sales team explores to ensure the best-fit solution is identified.
Production below 500KG p/h
Our best selling washers to these customers are the 60KG & 120KG washers, which are loaded at 50 & 100KG respectively to improve mechanical action & wash results to minimise rewash. Seldomly do central laundries purchase dryers below 60KG. Per above, we recommend automating ironing & towel folding asap.
This customer will normally transition to 2 shifts & then move to the next stage as soon as fiscally possible.
Production above 500KG p/h
Our 68KG batch washer with 8 pockets is by far the most popular model sold globally, delivering an impressive 1020 KG per hour, however we have various capacities to suit the customers’ requirements, impacted by production / textile type / soil levels.
This customer will also transition to 2 shifts & then add a 2nd CBW once volumes justify.
The smaller 60 / 120 KG washers & 60KG dryers are still used in this stage, however mostly for rewash or separation requirements.
Equipment
Our best sellers product catalogue to include:
Washers
Dryers
TD6-60
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Capacity 60 KG
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Designed Life 30’000 Cycles
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Axial Airflow N/A
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Moisture Balance Standard
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Reversing Drum Standard
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Roller Support Standard
Towel Folders
FlexFold AT180
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Items selection Automatic
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Folding capacity 600 per hour
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Fold max dimensions 180cmx120 cm
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Max Piece Width 120 cm
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FlexFold AT230
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Items selection Automatic
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Folding capacity 600 per hour
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Fold max dimensions 230cmx120 cm
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Max Piece Width 120 cm
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Flatwork Ironers
D800
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Cylinder 3300 x Ø 1200 mm
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Contact Surface 205 Degrees
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Prod. per hour 250 kg
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Evaporation 200 to 600L p/hour
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Type Chest Heated
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Automation Optional
D1200
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Cylinder 3300 x Ø 1200 mm
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Contact Surface 205 Degrees
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Prod. p/h Roll 1 x 950kg, Roll 2 x 950kg
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Evaporation 200 to 600L p/hour
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Type Chest Heated
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Automation Optional
Flexfold – Linen
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Prod. per hour 1000 pieces
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Working width 3000, 3300, 3500 or 4000mm
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Max piece width 900mm
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Air pressure 6 bar
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Power consumption 2.5 kWh
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