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King LaundryKing Laundry

Company

One plant in Loulé.

Over two tonnes of textiles a day, more than five vehicles on the road, and a collection calendar per client.

The plant in figures

sheets pressed per hour on the ironer
120sheets pressed per hour on the ironer
of ironer working width, with folding
4 mof ironer working width, with folding
of textile handled per day
2+ tof textile handled per day
vans running the circuit
5+vans running the circuit
for short-term rentals, drop-off to return
24–48 hfor short-term rentals, drop-off to return
from request to price
1 hfrom request to price

One hour on the ironer

120

Each mark is one sheet pressed and folded. That is 120 in an hour — a whole block of flats turned over in the time of a clean.

The plant

Everything leaves from and returns to one place.

Plant address

Rua Sebastião Cordeiro 30, 8100-628 Loulé

King Laundry works out of its own plant in Loulé, in the Algarve. That is where the collection vehicles leave from, and where the textiles come back to be washed and prepared.

More than five vans run the circuit and the plant handles over two tonnes of textile a day. Hotels get delivery in 24 hours; short-term rentals and table linen, 24 to 48; uniforms, up to 72. Urgent jobs, faster.

Drop-off points
Loulé plantVilamouraPortimãoplanned, not open yet

The equipment

The ironer is why hotels get delivery in 24 hours.

A laundry that presses piece by piece cannot close a full hotel’s daily count. Industrial capacity can, and that is what the Loulé plant runs.

Four-metre ironer with folding
It presses and folds in the same pass. Four metres of working width take double sheets flat, without folding them in half to fit.
120 sheets pressed per hour
That is the ironer’s rate in normal running. It is the number that decides whether the morning shift has its linen in time.
High-capacity machines
Industrial washing and drying, sized to a hotel’s volume rather than a household’s. That is what absorbs the weekend peak instead of pushing it into the next week.

The products

Linen lasts twice as long when it is treated properly.

We wash with enzymatic, biodegradable products, dosed to the type of stain and to the fabric. The enzyme attacks the stain; the right dose is what stops it attacking the fibre as well.

The maths shows up in the linen room: an ordinary bedding set washed without enzymatic products and dosed by eye lasts one summer. The same set treated properly lasts two. Anyone buying textile every year is already paying that difference.

It is why a contract’s price should be compared with the textile it saves, not only with a price per kilo.

What the plant does with the textiles

The round is built around the hours of whoever hires it.

There is no fixed route for clients to fit into. There is a calendar per client, and that is what sets the hour the van comes by.

Scheduled, tailored collection
Frequency and time are agreed with each house and go in the calendar.
Storage between uses
Textiles out of rotation are stored and managed at the plant, and come out when the house asks for them.
Handled separately
Delicate fabrics, technical fabrics and uniforms with requirements of their own do not go through the same treatment as the rest.
Products and equipment
We wash with enzymatic, biodegradable products in high-capacity industrial equipment.

How it starts

From the request to the first collection.

Three steps, and a contract only comes up after the third.

  1. Two minutes

    Four questions about the operation

    Sector, size, frequency and a contact. You do not need the volume to the kilo — the estimate is built from the answers.

  2. One hour

    The quote comes with the round

    The price arrives alongside an estimate of textiles per week and the number of rounds that estimate calls for.

  3. Before any contract

    The first collection

    The first collection is a trial run. We collect, wash and deliver once before there is any contract.

Terms

Volume and contract move the price.

There are specific terms for large volumes and for recurring contracts, agreed case by case.

Ways to pay

  • Bank transfer
  • Card
  • Cash

Where to find us

Reach us whichever way is quickest.

On the phone we answer there and then. For a price, the four questions in the form get there faster than a call.

Plant
Rua Sebastião Cordeiro 30, 8100-628 Loulé

Keep reading

Details still to be confirmed

This site is a prototype. Anything King Laundry has not yet confirmed is marked as such and does not become running text.

  • How many years King Laundry has served the Algarve.To confirm
  • Photographs of the plant, the vehicles and the textile.To confirm

See it running at your place.

The first round is a trial and commits you to nothing. You come out of it knowing how much textile goes out a week, what time the van suits you, and what it costs.

Quote in 1 hour

Four questions, two minutes, and the price an hour later.