OCTOBER 2021
Late News Uniform system installed at Resorts World Las Vegas LOS ANGELES — InvoTech Systems Inc. reports it has installed its uniform system at Resorts World Las Vegas. The installed system manages the uniform inventory for 7,500 employees. Resorts World Las Vegas opened on June 24 after the company’s onsite installation and training services to ensure all uniforms were issued and recorded properly before the grand opening. This marks the fourth Resorts World property to implement the InvoTech uniform system joining Resorts World Manila, Resorts World New York City and Resorts World Sentosa. In addition to complete uniform management, Resorts World Las Vegas utilizes the human resources interface, which allows for added benefits such as eliminating errors, automated transactions, reduced processing time for new employees and changes to existing employees. “We are very excited to implement our uniform system at Resorts World Las Vegas and deliver efficient and effective inventory tracking, employee assignment and laundry activity history processes,” says Oswald Lares, director of sales and marketALN ing at InvoTech Systems.
Aiming high all around in laundry/linen services Ames Linen Service is celebrating 100 years of service in Upstate New York by expecting the best from everyone involved BY MATT POE, EDITOR CORTLAND, N.Y. — In the early 1900s, Harry L. Ames began working in the laundry industry in Upstate New York. In 1919, he joined Associated Laundries of CNY as a manager in a Syracuse plant. Moving quickly, in 1921, he purchased his own laundry in Ithaca. Later, Ames purchased the Cortland Steam Laundry and moved operations to Cortland. Today, the fourth generation of the Ames family, Johanna, owns and operates what is now known as Ames Linen Service, which is celebrating 100 years of laundry and linen service providing textile services in the hospitality, food and beverage, healthcare and industrial markets. Ames Linen Service in Cortland, New York, is celebrating 100 years in business under the leadership of just one family over four generations. (Photo: Ames Linen Service)
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Laundry chemistry changes post-pandemic Experts share how COVID-19 affected chemical usage in processing, future considerations BY MATT POE, EDITOR
Michael Soussa (left), sales director, and Martin Mora, engineering project manager work on the NorFlow-WIN Chemical Dispensing Systems masked up during the pandemic. (Photo: Norchem Corp.) Volume 47, Number 10
INSIDE Rewash Challenges Adapting processes to reduce rewash can help improve a laundry’s bottom line.
CHICAGO — Laundry and linen services always work to provide hygienic, clean goods to their customers. But the COVID-19 pandemic made laundries take an in-depth look at the chemistry they use. While many elements of laundry chemistry have remained the same, there have been some changes. American Laundry News heard from some of those in the know and learned about what operations need to know regarding their chemistry. Those experts are Kevin Minissian, CEO/president, and Vaughn Minissian, director of operations, Norchem Corp. in Los Angeles; Doug Story, president of large laundry sales for UNX in Greenville, North Carolina; and Scott Pariser, co-president of Pariser Industries in Paterson, New Jersey.
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Panel of Experts In this issue, the Experts share ways to gain capital approval from management in tight times.
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Comparing the Goods Way for operators to compare supplier/ goods, and maybe add products.
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