Part 3 The Napkin Comes Clean
Separation Anxiety - Once the linen bag full of napkins has made its way back to United Linen's production facilities, the bags are staged "in the air" with other bags full of assorted linen. The napkin stays in this holding pattern until the production crew is ready for the bags of linen to be sorted.
When the soil sort crew is ready to sort the napkins, the bags are let down through a rail system to one of many Soil Sort stations. Here, the bag will be opened and the napkins dumped on a sorting table. United Linen's automatic Soil Count System accounts for each napkin as it is fed up a vacuum tube and placed in a holding bin.
Large slings are used to transport the sorted linen from the Soil Sort dept to the Washroom. In a days time the Washroom will wash an estimated 60,000 lbs of linen.
After being washed, the linen is dumped back into baskets, rehung in slings and transported by overhead rail to the dryers.
Some linen products get dried in the dryers while other products, like our napkins and tablecloths are dried through the ironing process.
The napkin's next stop...the ironers!
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