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Healthcare Laundry Solutions for Commercial Operations

Maintaining consistent results in healthcare laundry operations often depends on how well teams manage variation across linen types, wash conditions and handling practices at scale.


Ecolab works with healthcare laundry operators to align wash processes with customer needs, regulatory requirements and day to day operating conditions. Our approach focuses on helping teams manage variation across linen types, maintain clear visibility into wash performance and drive more consistent results across shifts and facilities.

Managing Linen Hygiene in Healthcare Laundry Operations

AdvaCare™ is an EPA registered disinfectant and oxidizing chemistry designed for use in healthcare laundry operations to kill harmful microorganisms that linens and gowns can harbor. AdvaCare outperforms chlorine and peroxide for disinfecting, whiteness and extending linen life.

*EPA Reg. No. 1677-193
 

Tunnel Washer Water and Energy

Water and Energy Saving Solutions for Efficient Laundry

Water and energy performance often depends on how consistently water is managed, reused and monitored across the wash process. Variation in water quality, flow and filtration can limit reuse potential and affect operating costs.

Ecolab works with commercial laundry teams to assess water flow across the wash floor and identify where process conditions or system design may limit performance. Efforts focus on improving visibility, managing variation and driving more consistent performance over time.
 

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Tunnel Washer Expertise

Drawing on Ecolab’s broad healthcare knowledge and experience to create smarter laundry solutions, we help our healthcare customers manage more tunnels than anyone else in the industry. Our unique diagnostic toolbox enables our highly trained Tunnel Doctors to perform detailed diagnostics for quick and accurate resolution. We service more tunnels than anyone, and help you get the most from yours.

Protect Patients, Your Customers and Your Bottom Line

Now more than ever, your healthcare customers rely on you to provide clean, disinfected linens. You need reliable products and services that help you protect patients, your customers, and your bottom line. Ecolab ProTEX360º is a comprehensive, science-based program that combines advanced chemistry with proper procedures, and validation to deliver the highest standard of cleanliness for public health and safety.

Where Healthcare Laundry Processes Break Down and Why it Matters

How can improvements in one part of the wash process create issues elsewhere?

What makes water reuse harder to sustain than to implement?

Why does process consistency often drift over time, even with set formulas?

What limits throughput in tunnel systems more than expected?

Why is it difficult to apply standardized processes across healthcare linen types?

Nalco Water works with healthcare laundry operators to evaluate key process dynamics, helping teams improve visibility, manage variability and drive more consistent performance across the wash process.

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St. Paul, MN 55102

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