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How hospitality businesses can benefit from extending the life cycle of their commercial linen

The hospitality industry has always ‘done its duty’ to the environment by recycling old linen for rag, rather than sending this straight to landfill. However, as it’s simply not viable to refrain from  using any of the earth’s resources to ...

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Regenex reaches target milestone following successful processing of 1,000 tonnes of linen

Specialist commercial linen cleaning company, Regenex, has reached its target milestone of successfully returning 1,000 tonnes of linen back to its customers — saving 3K tonnes of carbon in the process. Founded in 2017, the West Yorkshire-based company has continued ...

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Hospitality industry counts £1.8m cost of fake tan on bedding and towels

Fake tanners and heavy make-up users are costing UK hotels and holiday lets up to £1.792m per year by leaving marks on bedding on towels, according to new figures from linen recovery specialists Regenex. Laundries all over the country are ...

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How laundries are saving carbon and money by reusing ‘condemned’ linen instead of recycling

By Paul Hamilton, technical director, Regenex Gone – or at least fast disappearing – are the days of throwing waste linen into a receptacle marked ‘recycling’ and feeling like you are meeting your environmental responsibilities. We know too well there ...

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New white paper details 5 most compelling reasons yet for laundries to love linen longer

Stain removal specialist Regenex has compiled its most compelling case yet for the careful care and re-use of every piece of commercial linen, in a new white paper. Five key reasons for a seachange in the way the UK laundry sector sees ...

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Regenex dyes 100,000 NHS scrub suits to equip Nightingale hospitals

Commercial linen stain removal specialist, Regenex, has used its textile dyeing expertise to colour 100,000 medical scrub suits for future use on healthcare frontlines. The white workwear, ordered for emergency use, has been dyed in shades of cobalt, raspberry and ...

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Regenex aims to save 3,000 tonnes of carbon in 2021

Commercial linen cleaning services specialist, Regenex has set a new goal to process 1,000 tonnes of the UK’s dirtiest linen before its fourth birthday at the end of 2021. The ambitious target, representing a step-up in operations, has been fixed despite ...

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Textile recycling is struggling – but there are fewer reasons than ever to throw away good linen

By David Midgley, Managing Director, Regenex Before Covid-19 struck, many commercial laundries were coming to the realisation that they throw way too much good linen in the bin, and have been doing so for years. Historically, anything stained or discoloured, ...

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Could a new attitude to thrift help laundries through Coronavirus?

By Paul Hamilton, Technical Director, Regenex The shut-down of the hospitality industry, which usually creates 15 million pieces of washing every week in this country is causing an unprecedented crisis for the commercial laundry sector in the UK. A lack ...

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Regenex expands with new business take-up

A new specialist commercial linen cleaning service in Bradford is celebrating a string of business wins, following successful free trials. Buttershaw-based Regenex has pioneered new methods in stain removal that are proving successful in around 75 per cent of the ...

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