linen

Traditionally cleaned linens for hospitality businesses have been protected by plastic covers, during transit from the laundry and while they are stored before being used. In recent years hospitality linen services have used 100 tonnes of plastics a week to ...

Textile scientists at Regenex are celebrating some of their best-ever specialist cleaning success rates on a consignment of 11.5 tonnes of hospitality linen from Downtons Dry Cleaning, Laundry and Linen Hire. The high-end customer tried the patented stain removal process ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Textile Services Association (TSA) has teamed up with UKHospitality, Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide (PCIAW) to launch the Infinite Textiles scheme. The scheme will see commercial laundries partnering with their customers to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...