Laundry Robotics: “The ultimate solution”
By Walter ten Hagen
Laundry Robotics has been installing robots for automatic towel feeding in laundries for more than 3 years. Millions of towels have already been processed with these solutions. The laundry industry worldwide is faced with far reeaching challenges: limited textile supply, high energy costs and lack of personnel to name a few. Fresh ideas are needed in laundries. Rethinking established processes and looking for potential gains in efficiency and effectiveness are keys to future success. Laundry Robotics helps shape this future and bring to market systems that have their place in these processes. Robots and further automated systems will offer new possibilities to meet several of the given challenges.
Inwatec / Jensen: “Washing Robots”
By Mads Andresen, Inwatec / Jensen
While robots doing laundry were once an idea for futuristic science fiction movies, that future is now being realized by dozens of laundries around the world. Inwatec, a partner of the JENSEN-GROUP, offers robots that automate the most labour-intensive or dangerous jobs in a laundry. In dirty laundryl sorting, robots identify each item, scan it for foreign objects that should not enter the washing process, and then sort it into the relevant category. On the clean side, stack storage systems contribute to the level of hygiene- and efficiencylevel of the flat finishing area. The range of towel feeding robots now has a new generation with improved performance and reliability.
Kannegiesser: “Revolutionary Textile Service: automated logistics and robotics”
By André Tienemann, Kannegiesser
Industry 4.0, SmartLaundry, artificial intelligence – are these buzzwords or is there more to it? According to Kannegiesser, these concepts are becoming a reality for many textile services as interconnectivity, smart automation and advanced robotics make their way to laundries around the world. However, a patchwork of specialized equipment and software suppliers can make laundries complicated and prone to failure. That is why Kannegiesser not only supplies the equipment, but also the matching logistics solutions for the entire laundry operation for maximum automation from washing to drying to finishing to sorting. The ultimate goal: a reliable and efficient operation that runs smoothly.
TBR: “C02 Neutral Laundry Processing”
By ir. Jaap Reinders, Bureau Reinders
Professional textile care according to Best Practices is according to scientific research 3-5 times more sustainable than washing at home. That is the core message to customers, governments and other stakeholders. A huge market opportunity for the industry. By optimizing the use of textiles, there is an enormous EXTRA CO2 reduction.
TKT: “Intensifying Textile Use; max Co² savings”
By dr. ir. Henk Gooijer, TKT
Sustainability is an important theme in society. Professional textile care is the sustainable option, as the professional washing process is more sustainable than domestic washing. Moreover textile service creates opportunities for a longer product life and creates better conditions for recycling. In this presentation, the focus is on the effect of extending the life of textiles on the sustainability of textile use. To illustrate this, the reduction in CO2 emissions and water consumption as a function of the number of washes has been calculated using the Ecotool for a number of representative textile products. It has been shown that very significant reductions in CO2 emissions and water consumption can be achieved by extending the current average life of textiles in the consumer market to the technical life.
IHAC: “Hygiene challenges 2022 and beyond”
By Simon Hemmes, IHAC
This presentation concerns the two viruses circulating worldwide and the CINET strategy to support laundries in minimizing the risk of human transmission. Both on the end-user side and in the laundry. The International Hygiene Advisory Committee responds quickly to any new outbreak, writing hygiene recommendations and communicating them to all CINET members. A brief summary of recommendations and activities in 2022.
