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Over recent years, sustainability and environmentalism have become bigger and bigger topics, with many companies integrating these ideals into their goals and objectives. Of course, it isn't always only…

Next up in our series of articles on sustainability, efficiency, and reducing your carbon footprint is about the chemicals you use within your commercial laundry system. Unlike our previous articles on…

With another cold and wet winter looming having warm, and more importantly dry, clothes, towels and other garments is more important than ever. For most businesses, this requires some kind of dryer…

One of the many questions we hear when helping both new and existing laundromat business owners is "should my site be open 24 hours?" It's a good question. The simple rule is : the more hours your site is…

There are two parts to running a successful commercial laundry system, whether you are a small local laundromat or a massive mining enterprise. Your laundry must clean clothes or linen (to whatever…

Here at Speed Queen, we're used to dealing with places full of hot air. It takes a true expert to carefully calculate the most effective way to achieve our client's goals, and by that we mean ensure their…

With the summer holiday season quickly approaching, there has never been a better time to make some improvements for your caravan or holiday park, like new laundry equipment. Why not do that with help…

Recently two Speed Queen distributors, FL Costello and Andrew Bartons, attended the annual Gday parks conference/ Expo in Darwin. The conference covered a lot of ground, from the external threats and…

Correct installation of commercial laundry machines might not be glamorous, but it's a critical step when revolutionising your laundry system. Much like finding the ideal laundromat location, or designing…

Moving heavy objects can be challenging at the best of times. I'm sure we've all experienced the dreaded "I'd like to see how it looks over there?", or the even worse "can you put it upstairs?" Our…

In most sectors, laundry is a necessity. Hospitality needs clean sheets to run, healthcare needs clean garments to control infection, fire services need clean uniforms for their own health, and a huge…

We are currently living through a period of rapid change, with historically high levels of inflation. According to the Reserve bank of Australia, the Australian CPI has almost doubled over the last year…

We've all had it happen. You take your beautiful new white garment out of the wash, and its colour has more in common with a patchy lump of rock than the clean snow that went in. Much like a fine woman…

Laundry companies like ourselves have spent decades refining our equipment to be as easy to use as possible, but this can sometimes make a successful wash look far simpler than it actually is. There are…

When a washer or dryer nears the end of it's life there are three good reasons to purchase a new machine. 1) The obvious... rather than increasing repair costs, you benefit from a manufacturers warranty…