The Top News in Healthcare Linen and Laundry Services

Ecotex Recognized by the TRSA for the Industry’s Best Laundry Plants of the Year Award in North America

March 9, 2020 (Vancouver, Canada) — Textile Rental Services Association (TRSA) awards its Best Plants of the Year award acknowledging laundry environmental sustainability, quality, efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Over a span of 12 months, Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service (“Ecotex”), built a new, modern healthcare laundry processing facility in Kelowna, B.C., Canada. 

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Growth and Expansion

St. Charles, MO, December 4, 2019 – The Healthcare Linen Alliance announced today its expanded service areas driven by members adding new facilities. With Alliance members serving the United States and Canada, the group now collectively produces over 750,000,000 pounds annually, serving more than 2,100 customers and over 120,000 hospital beds.

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The Healthcare Linen Alliance Expands Business Development Team with Addition of Rick Gaffney

SAN DIEGO – (November 13, 2018) The Healthcare Linen Alliance is pleased to announce that Rick Gaffney has joined the group to head business development and partnerships. Rick has spent much of his career in the commercial healthcare laundry industry. With experience that extends from Operations Management to Service to Sales, Rick brings his extensive background in the industry to the team.
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Healthcare Linen Alliance Introduces its Partnership

SAN DIEGO – (October 3, 2017) Randy Bartsch, CEO of Ecotex, announced today the formal launch of the Healthcare Linen Alliance, a collaboration between five of the leading providers of commercial laundry service management solutions for healthcare providers. The Alliance is one of the largest commercial healthcare linen services providers in the nation, serving nearly 1,400 customers and processing over 340 million pounds of laundry per year. Through this partnership the Alliance offers its customers a new healthcare linen services option on a national level.

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Paris Companies Wins Textile Services Industry's Top Environmental Award

The TRSA’s (www.trsa.org) prestigious environmental award recognizes novel approaches to increasing sustainability by conserving natural resources and reducing overall environmental impact. Winning top honors this year is the Paris Companies Super Trailer. Inspired by a specialized, NASCAR team trailer, Paris experimented with lowering the floor of a semi-trailer and creating interior upper and lower decks to haul more hospital linen carts. The Super Trailer was born, and cart capacity increased 67% from 36 to 60 carts.
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Paris Companies and CEO, Dave Stern, Selected for Pittsburgh Area "Smart 50"

Paris Companies and CEO, Dave Stern, were recently selected as members of the greater Pittsburgh area Smart 50 for 2015. This is the second year that Smart Business Magazine — a consortium of seventeen respected, regional business management journals — in conjunction with Chase, a leading U.S. consumer and commercial bank, have presented the awards. The Smart 50 Award recognizes those companies that stand out in leadership, innovation, sustainability and impact on the region.
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Ecotex Finalizes Booth Laundry Acquisition

Following a March 1st announcement that Ecotex Service Corp. would acquire Booth Centennial Healthcare Linen Services, Ecotex issued a joint news release on Sept. 23 with Fengate Capital Management that said the deal with Booth Centennial is now finalized.

“We are excited to bring a fresh perspective to the Ontario market,” said Randy Bartsch, Ecotex CEO. “Our new and smarter linen solutions will help our customers provide a safe, comfortable environment for patient care, while we ensure cost and service quality.”

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Paris Companies Presents at Annual Healthcare Conference

Dave Stern, CEO of Paris Companies, presented as a session leader at the annual healthcare conference of his company’s major trade association, TRSA — the Textile Rental Services Association.  The conference, held in November in East Brunswick, NJ, brought executives from across the nation together to share experiences and knowledge pertinent to laundering and linen management services for the healthcare industry.  Paris Companies is a leading provider of these services to all types of healthcare organizations in the mid-Atlantic region.

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Paris Companies is a Top 100 Organization in 2015

Annually for the past twenty years, Pennsylvania Business Central (PBC) magazine has recognized central Pennsylvania companies that achieved record performance or made significant contributions to Pennsylvania economic development during the year. In its February 26, 2016 issue, PBC announced that Paris Companies had repeated as a selectee for the honor for 2015. In fact, 2015 is the sixth consecutive year for Paris as a Top 100 Organization.
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