How Healthy is Your Laundry?
Every laundry can benefit from an annual check-up. From Healthcare, Hospitality, F&B and Industrial laundry operations, the Gurtler Team of Experts is ready for consultation.
With increased scrutiny on the need for hygienically clean textiles, whether in the healthcare field, hospitality markets, food service operations, or food processing plant facilities, the Gurtler Rx program can help you improve efficiencies, meet your quality standards and achieve certification. Programs like TRSA’s Hygienically Clean and Clean Green certification, and HLAC Accreditation have raised the bar for laundries that serve a wide variety of customers.
The Gurtler Rx program is a tailored analysis by our expert consultants which offers insights into your laundry operations, identifying potential improvements not just in achieving better linen quality but across energy and water usage, labor productivity and chemical usage.
Here’s What the Program Provides You
- A full battery of bacteriological testing of final rinse water, textiles, and hard surfaces
- Identification of critical control points in the laundry process where contamination can occur
- A tailored treatment plan with recommendations for wash formulas, product application techniques and validation procedures
- Scheduled follow-up to verify results and ensure compliance with any certification standards or programs
Consultation
Comprehensive review of your laundry’s goals and processes.
Diagnosis
The Gurtler Rx Experts survey, run tests, and identifies critical control points at your laundry.
Prescription
Recommend processes, products and procedures that help you achieve your goals.
Validation
Bacteriological testing of process water, textiles and hard surfaces to ensure treatment is effective.
Commercial Laundry Certification
The Gurtler RX program supports you to become a hygienically clean certified laundry for your industry.
Products and Systems
Here are some of the products and systems that are available from our specialists to ensure that your textile’s quality meets your standards:
This innovative, patented, EPA-registered system utilizes the latest UV technology to treat recycled water, reducing the need for fresh water and energy while improving linen quality and reducing rewash. UV technology combined with advanced oxidation technology and specialized chemical applications provides extraordinary microbial decontamination in the final rinse of your tunnel, a critical first step in assuring hygienically clean healthcare textiles.
Vis•Tex Tunnel UV System benefits:
- UV plus advanced oxidation technology provides microbial decontamination, assuring hygienically clean textiles.
- Powerful oxidizers deliver bright, white textiles, and provide excellent stain removal, reducing rewash.
- Water and energy savings from enhanced reuse water quality and production efficiencies.
All backed up by Gurtler’s Expert Service Team!
When assured disinfection is the goal, a recommended product for many facilities is Validox Disinfectant. This EPA-registered peracetic acid laundry disinfectant and sanitizer is certified to kill/reduce bacteria by 99.9999%. This premium biocide from Gurtler controls such common microorganisms as Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Used alone or in combination with other Gurtler solutions, it validates laundered healthcare linens and garments as TRSA-certified Hygienically Clean, and in full compliance with other microbial laboratory measures.
Helps ensure that your textiles are protected from microbial contamination. Power Stat Plus was developed specifically for application in tunnel washers. The first new development in antimicrobial final rinse additives in decades, Power Stat Plus is the fastest acting product on the market. An EPA registered laundry sanitizer, residual self-sanitizer and residual bacteriostat, Power Stat Plus helps assure that your textiles are protected from microbial contamination, even in storage.
Gurtler’s Unique Dual-Bleaching Technology: With the use of Oxcellerate, a unique oxygen bleach activator, in combination with hydrogen peroxide, we can increase anti-microbial efficacy and help you achieve your Hygienically Clean target.
Disinfects in 3 minutes! An EPA-registered concentrated one-step hospital use disinfectant, when used as directed, that is effective against a broad spectrum of bacteria, is virucidal (including HIV-1, the AIDS virus, Hepatitis B virus, and Hepatitis C virus), fungicidal, and inhibits the growth of mold and mildew, and their odors. Mint D-3 is formulated for use in daily maintenance programs with a balance of detergents and malodor counteractants. Combined, they deliver effective cleaning, disinfecting and malodor control. Use Mint D-3 on washable hard, non-porous surfaces. Use as a detergent/sanitizer/disinfectant for any Critical Control Points in healthcare laundry operations such as: laundry cart washing systems, textile conveyor belts, outer door surfaces of washer/extractors, and any other clean textile contact points.
The Gurtler gēLINE™ offers a wide range of products and services that help laundry operations to be more energy efficient, conserve resources and have a lower environmental impact.