Discover how your in-house laundry can cut costs significantly while boosting efficiency and your green credentials
Sustainability is a key part of ensuring your business is resilient and profitable. By reducing water and energy consumption, you are not only helping your business become greener – a message you can share with your customers – but you also enjoy the added benefit of cost savings. As businesses, it’s our shared responsibility to take steps towards sustainability and make our operations as green as possible.
Fortunately, there are practical ways to achieve this—whether by investing in the right commercial laundry equipment, switching to more eco-friendly detergents, or being more mindful of how you use your equipment.
Start by taking a look at each stage of the laundry process, then make a series of smaller changes that add up to a big impact.
Washing
Buying new equipment can be a major investment. However, when your current equipment reaches the end of its life, newer models can offer significant sustainability benefits, helping you reduce costs over time.
With Line 6000 equipment, Electrolux Professional brings greater efficiency to an eco-friendly washing process. For example, the Integrated Savings feature measures the laundry load in real-time, avoiding overloading and underloading the machine and reducing water and energy consumption.
In fact, investing in a Line 6000 high-spin washer, can help you cut your operational expenditure by up to 40% in energy savings, all without compromising productivity.
Choosing the right detergent can also make a significant difference. The Line 6000 range of high-performance detergents complies with the strict EU Ecolabel criteria, ensuring an environmentally friendly approach, while being safe for textiles, skin, and the planet.
By combining the right equipment and detergents with practices such as running fuller loads and using high-spin cycles, you can greatly reduce your environmental impact.
Drying
Electrolux Professional’s Line 6000 heat pump dryers are far more efficient than vented dryers. With their inverter-driven compressor and electronic valve technology, they can complete a cycle in just 35 minutes, reducing your company’s energy consumption by up to 65% compared to vented models.
Additionally, features like Moisture Balance measure the exact moisture levels throughout the drying process, protecting your garments and saving energy by stopping the cycle as soon as the items are dry.
The drum speed is automatically adjusted to meet the ideal speed for the material type, whether the garment is made of delicate silk or heavy cotton. And the Adaptive Fan control, which adjusts the fan speed automatically when needed, helps achieve further energy savings.
Ironing
When you use the Line 6000 ironers, heat is always evenly distributed throughout the length of your equipment using a patented thermal oil flow inside the cylinder. There’s no need for steam to achieve brilliant results, guaranteeing up to 30 per cent higher productivity and unique performance.
In addition, a built-in indicator tells you if your linens have exceeded hygiene standards for humidity. This helps preserve the fibers of the linens and sustainably extend the life of the garments, avoiding unnecessary waste.
Going green
Your business can seize the opportunity to go green at every stage of the laundry process, boosting your environmental credentials and streamlining your operations by cutting consumption and waste.
By making a smart investment now in innovative commercial laundry equipment, your business can extend the lifecycle of its units, cutting costs and boosting efficiency. The chance to support your business and support the environment at the same time makes this an easy win, because we should all be aiming to create a more sustainable laundry.