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25 Wash Test Piece Results

A 25 Wash test piece, during which the quality of the linen we supply to our customers is tested for whiteness and brightness after multiple washes, was carried out in November 2017 by independent laundry auditors LTC Worldwide (www.ltcworldwide.com) and their findings were as follows.

We scored 94.5% (excellent) for the “whiteness reflectance” of our Cottons and 90.4% (excellent) for our Polycottons and we scored 118 (excellent) for the “brightness” of our Cottons and 81.5 (average) for our Polycottons. They also tested the same items for “Cycles to Failure”, which is to say the number of times we can expect each of them to be laundered before they fatigue and become unusable, and for this we scored >200 Cycles.

In technical terms what this means is that “the ‘excellent’ results for Cotton and Polycotton reflectance […] show that soil is being suspended within the wash liquors”, whilst “the improvements to both Cotton and Polycotton brightness […] highlight that the OBAs (Optical Brightener Agents) present within the detergent formulations are being effective.”

The report concludes: “These results combined and continued will translate into ensuring ALS’s linen stocks are of a consistent appearance in the market place. These results have again been coupled with a Cycles to Failure result of >200 indicating the achievement of effective stain removal without compromising linen life, leading to the maximisation of any investments in linen stocks.”

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Holiday Season is Here – So is the Worry over Dirty Laundry!

Santa is on his way! With the festivities just around the corner, businesses are flocking to put on the best show possible to up the ‘shopping and merry-making’ ante! So how well geared up are you?
It’s the Christmas and New Year holiday season again and that time of the year when people are traveling home to their families, planning vacations, gathering a lot of food ideas and “what-to-eat” and “where-to-start”. This is precisely the time that spells profits and more profits for business owners across the world.
If you are in the hospitality industry, you’re sure to know the importance of pepping up your indoors, your outdoors, your terrace,… in short, the entire building! You want the place to look splendid, eye-catching and charming at the same time.
Most restaurant owners spend a great deal on decorations, Christmas-inspired interiors and exteriors and a lot of fun ideas to keep families and young couples coming back for more in this festive season.
Laundry services for a glitch-free Christmas
Meanwhile, you have a large number of guests occupying all the rooms in your hotel or possibly they are sprawled across your restaurant and lounge areas grabbing fresh bakes from the kitchen, so you want to have a good stock of linen. Whether it be wash cloths, hand towels, table décor or interior styling, top quality laundry services will be by your side as you gear up for the holiday season.
A great number of people dine out with their families and even visit picturesque places like Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow to spend some quality personal time with each other. While you have a packed house and a never-ending run of orders at your restaurant, you will also need to have a limitless supply of fresh and clean linen so your guests don’t have any hassle.
Therefore, now is the best time to book your linen hire or laundry service for the holidays. The time you will save by allowing us to manage your linen is time that you can utilize to address the needs of your guests, to ensure that they have a ball of a time at your eatery, hotel or guest house.
Spotless linen allows you to add purity to the festivity
Lastly, the joy of Christmas is in the purity of the soul, both inside and outside. White is the colour of the soul and the spirit. We want nothing short of pure and clean linen that will add to the Christmas decorations at your business. Along with shimmering lights, new ribbons and lots of glittery paper, we need spotless linen to add a touch of purity to this holy festival.
Our professional laundry service is at your disposal to ensure that your guests are happy and satisfied with the services and amenities on offer at your establishment. Whether it’s the fact that your stock gets replenished before it runs out or the quality of the washing and ironing, nothing matches the work and discipline of a laundry and dry cleaning expert.
When you make your holiday season list this year, do not shy away from including a trusted, professional laundry service on it. It’s a small investment that’s well worth making in order to build your profits and your lasting reputation in the marketplace.

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Aberdeen Laundry Services joined hands with CRDN

ABERDEEN LAUNDRY SERVICES are pleased to announce that in January 2017 we were awarded the CRDN (Certified Restoration Dry Cleaning Network) franchise for the whole of the North of Scotland.

The franchise serves 160 thousand households by providing disaster recovery services (fire, flood, etc.) to the insurance industry.

In preparation for this ALS have created what is believed to be the first commercial ozone room in the region to facilitate the de-oderising of smoke-damaged garments.

You can find more details about CRDN here: https://www.crdn.co.uk/

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Scottish Power SME Case Study

Surendra Khandelwal, Finance Director of Aberdeen Laundry Services Aberdeen

Now in its seventh year of operation, Aberdeen Laundry Services (aberdeenls.co.uk) is a well-established business in the North East of Scotland. An independent commercial laundry and dry cleaning business, the company works with clients in the oil and gas, hospitality and public sectors. Since opening in 2009, it has grown considerably, now employing over 120 people and recently creating a turnover of three and a half million in the last financial year.

With this business growth, however, brings increased costs, particularly on energy outgoings. Despite thriving as a business, ALS is therefore keen to find ways to reduce its operational costs and reducing energy usage is key.

In a bid to tackle this, Finance Director, Surendra Khandelwal looked for support to cut costs. He started by researching tips for making businesses more energy efficient. This led him to information about the collaboration with Resource Efficient Scotland (RES) and ScottishPower.

Helping businesses use their energy more efficiently is ScottishPower’s priority, which is why the energy provider has teamed up with RES, a programme of Zero Waste Scotland, to look at business’s resource efficiency as a whole, something that has been hugely beneficial to ALS.

Surendra Khandelwal, Finance Director of ALS, said: “Since we have so many sites across Aberdeen, Scottish Power and RES focused on four of our locations to make sure they were as energy efficient as possible. Once we managed to improve things in our bigger stores, we then carried out similar methods in the rest of our branches to bring them up to speed with the rest. We quickly got into the swing of things and started to see gradual improvements on our energy bills over the space of just a few months.”

Surendra continued: “RES helped us to make lots of small changes that made sense from an energy efficient perspective. For example, they advised us to lag all of the pipes that take steam out of the factory to help save a great deal of money. We have already executed this. We were also advised to change the lighting in the factory from conventional bulbs to light-emitting diode (LED) panels to save money on our electricity bills in the long-term. This has had a positive impact on our energy costs and is just one example of the measures we’ve introduced to become more energy efficient.”

ALS has also moved away from older washing machines to newer and faster versions which process laundry more efficiently, both in terms of the amount of water they use as well as the heat that they require. As a loyal customer of ScottishPower, Mr Khandelwal welcomes these initiatives and tips which encourage businesses to become greener and more energy efficient.

Mr Khandelwal added: “These tips were bound to be a success and we have already seen marked improvements since incorporating them into ALS. We’re looking forward to keeping in touch with ScottishPower and RES to receive more assistance with our energy efficiency plans. Both RES and ScottishPower have given us some really helpful advice, which has made a difference to our energy bills. We also keep up to date with offerings on RES and ScottishPower’s websites, so they can expect to hear from us again in the not so distant future.”

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Aberdeen Laundry Services – News Paper Article

ONE firm that has already benefited from the link between Scottish Power and Resources Efficient Scotland is Aberdeen Laundry services (ALS), the largest independent commercial laundry in the north of Scotland.

The company which has been operating since 1898, has four main laundries in Aberdeen, Aboyne, Keith and Inverness serving its commercial clients and a network of ten shops in Aberdeenshire and Inverness serving its domestic customers.

Many of the firm’s clients are in hospitality industry – such as hotels and restaurants – while a large part of the company’s work also comes from the oil & gas sector.

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How table-cloth linen hire services can be beneficial for restaurateurs?

In order to remain ahead of the pack, restaurants are striving hard to deliver unforgettable dining experience to their patrons. Restaurant owners are trying to leave no stone unturned to captivate their guests with an outstanding cuisine and invigorating ambiance. Guests are indeed drawn to any restaurant that has a perfect fusion of sublime ambiance, amiable service and finest grandeur.

You can make a real difference with opulent and pristine clean restaurant services. Sparkling clean restaurant linen supplies will help you in casting a spell of magical attraction on your guest, as well as increase the probabilities of their visiting your restaurant over and over again. The stunning designs, stylish linen colours and splendid texture of the table-cloths and napkins speak lot more about the premium services offered by the restaurant.
Here are some quick pointers about how hiring Aberdeen Laundry Services for tablecloth rentals can be beneficial for your restaurant:

– Superior quality linen
Restaurant linen hire services have a perfect concoction of the cutting-edge technology, remarkable design and unparalleled sophistication. They are perfectly designed to meet the varying requirements of the hospitality industry. With a quality tablecloth in your eatery, the look and feel of the room will boast of urbane stylishness and sense of taste, with punctuality and professionalism.

– Seamless business operations
We offer a dedicated cleaning and custom inventories of freshly laundered and pressed sets of tablecloth so you never have to be concerned of non-availability of linen at any point of time, which is best for restaurateurs who don’t have enough time to worry about laundry. Our team is highly experienced who will help you in seamless business operations by efficiently handling all repairs or timely replacements of worn out tablecloths.

– Cost-saving solution
During the entire cleaning process we thoroughly examine each and every item, fix table-cloths that need mending or replace the items that have become worn out or impaired due to repeated usage. So, the restaurateurs don’t have to incur huge cost on purchase, storage and maintenance of the tablecloth and other related linen.

– Pick and drop services
Our services offers a timely collect linen from your restaurant and carefully arrange and label them. The essential minutiae of tablecloth repairs and washing are professionally managed by their committed personnel.

– Wide selection of tablecloth linen
You can select table-cloth linen among different options available that complements your restaurant’s decor and dining room decoration theme, the size of the tables and seating arrangements.
Want to surpass your guests’ expectations by delivering them unmatched dining experience? Connect with Aberdeen Laundry Services, and our experienced team will guide you through.

ABERDEEN LAUNDRY SERVICES
142, Queens Road, Aberdeen AB15 8BR
01224 311617
info@aberdeenls.co.uk