Folding flat linens and terry cloth items with precision requires a significant investment of time and staff in the laundry. This task is often unpopular among employees, but it must be performed with great care because accurately folded linens are easier to handle and give a neat, professional appearance. Folding machines are the ideal solution for various types of textiles and ensure more efficient workflows in laundries.
To ensure that professionally cleaned table linens, bed linens, and terry cloth items can be transported and stored neatly, precise folding is essential. Guests in hotels and restaurants also expect excellent linens—whether in their rooms or in the dining areas. For residents of long-term care facilities, perfectly cleaned and folded linens also contribute to a greater sense of well-being. For laundries, folding machines offer several advantages when handling textiles: Automating processes results in enormous time savings, reduced staffing requirements, and increased productivity. While the folding machine ensures optimal results for your textiles, employees can focus on other tasks. These are the benefits of a folding machine:
- Perfect results: Bedding, sheets, table linens, pillowcases, and other flat linens are processed using the flat linen folding machine DOMESTIC Folded precisely and customized to your specifications in the blink of an eye. Up to 99 folding programs can be programmed and selected as needed. You decide whether you want no, one, or two longitudinal folds on your mangle-dried laundry. The DOMESTIC operates on up to three lanes simultaneously, handling different types of laundry and folds.
- Handling Large Capacities: The folding machine offers even greater performance for businesses with a particularly high volume of textiles STARFOLD. The machine allows for up to two longitudinal folds and three transverse folds for ironing laundry using various folding patterns.
- Improving Efficiency: Our professional folding machines can handle significantly more folding work per hour than laundry workers who do the work by hand. The terry cloth folding machine KOMBIFOLD For example, it folds up to 1,800 parts per hour and requires only one person to operate it.
- Flexibility: Folding unsorted towels of different sizes at the same time? For the STAHL folding machine KOMBIFOLD No problem. After you enter the settings, the machine checks the shape of the towels, folds them according to the selected folding style, and sorts and stacks them by size.
- Savings in time and labor costs: Thanks to the folding machines' tremendous performance, you can process significantly more textiles in less time. At the same time, fewer staff members are needed, and your employees have more time to focus on other tasks.
Our tip: Using professional ironing boards gives flat linens the perfect finish before they’re folded in the folding machine. Learn more