[labnetwork] Cleanroom gowns: laundered in house

[Shimon Eliav]

Hi Dennis,

Regarding your question about how many pieces we're washing on a weekly basis: we are a small lab (300m2) with 25 garments available in the gowning room. We have a hundred students allowed to use our clean room and five staff members. That is all. So, for this amount of garments, the in house laundry is very suitable. For the amount you mentioned (450 pieces a month) this is not a good solution, for sure.

Regards,

Shimon

From: labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu [mailto:labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Schweiger
Sent: Monday, 4 November 2019 21:47
To: Aju Jugessur <Aju.Jugessur at colorado.edu>
Cc: labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [labnetwork] Cleanroom gowns: laundered in house

Aju,

we're probably the odd man out in regard to launderable clothing, as we have a contract with Cintas to handle all of our launderable garments.  We turn in for cleaning anywhere from 400-550 pieces of clothing every week for our fab, with the average load size being about 450 pieces.  It's an added expense that we're adjusting on a quarterly basis to make sure we have the correct number of clothing pieces, for both size, and variation of articles.  In addition, our vendor has modified our suits and smocks so that we can put name tags on the backs of them for better identification of individuals, which is a prerequisite for working after hours in our facility.  That functionality is working out quite well here.

At one time we used disposable materials, but that was getting expensive, and had its own management problems.

I'm curious for those that do this laundry service themselves, just how many pieces they're washing on a weekly basis..... With our current laundry load, there is no way I'd want to try and do this on our own, even if the labor was free.

Dennis Schweiger
Facility Manager
University of Michigan/LNF

734.647.2055 Ofc


On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 5:13 PM Aju Jugessur <Aju.Jugessur at colorado.edu<mailto:Aju.Jugessur at colorado.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,

I am reaching out to the ISO 5 and 6 cleanroom users regarding cleanroom gowns.

Does anyone opted to laundered their own cleanroom gowns in house? If yes, what type of washers/dryers you use? I am aware that washers specific for cleanroom can be very expensive and outsourcing the task is also expensive. I am also aware that some labs are using dedicated regular washers.

Any advice and suggestions will be great.

Thanks so much.
Regards
Aju




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