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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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, ...
Read More »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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