Alberta, Canada Read Case Study: Keeping Pace with Alberta's Oily Laundry
Every morning the workers of Good Fish Lake commercial laundry drive three hours into the boreal forest to pick up oil workers' sheets, towels and tar-drenched industrial coveralls. The soiled linens are packed into a semi-truck and transported back to Good Fish Lake, where the laundry is cleaned. Each week Good Fish Lake processes 300,000 pounds of laundry, relying on four 90- and two 130-pound capacity Continental soft-mount washer-extractors, two 165- and four 115-pound capacity Continental Drying Tumblers, a single-roll, and a 32-inch Continental Flatwork Ironer. Before purchasing the 32-inch flatwork ironer, Good Fish Lake cleaned and finished about 3,000 sheets on a good day. With its new Continental ironer, Good Fish Lake increased production to between 7,000 and 8,000 sheets per day, while using fewer workers to do the job. The ironer, with an automatic folder, has increased efficiency and allowed Good Fish Lake to grow.