May/June 2025 Bulletin

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We are proud to send out our May/June 2025 Bulletin—we hope you enjoy it. See Service Tips, Parts Ideas by Barb, Supply Ideas by Chris Schiefelbein, John Sullivan and James Riope, and Our Customers!

This bulletin includes information on:

• Our Customers - Scrubby Duds Laundry
• Chris Schiefelbein, John Sullivan, and James Riopel — Pariser's Premier: An Excellent All-Purpose Laundry Detergent
• MCC Service Tips — Excessive Lint: The Great Enemy: Do You Need Secondary Lint Filtration?
• Parts Ideas from Barb — Spring Cleaning and Equipment Tune-Ups
• Chicago Dryer: Leader in Automated Laundry Feeders, Flatwork Ironers, Folders, Small Piece Folders and Specialty Finishing Equipment

SUPPLIES

SPECIALS IN STOCK:

New R&B Wire RBSP-1000 Laundry Floor Scale, List $3,102, special $1,000 FOB MCC.

For your worn-out washers or dryers, we can install replacement equipment FAST - 800-328-5589.

Calendar of Upcoming Events

• Every Tuesday @ 10:30 AM – 11:30 PM Central: Drycleaning & Laundry Institute (DLI): DLI Weekly Peer-to-Peer Zoom Meetings; FREE; Share ideas and brainstorm with other professional cleaners from around the globe with weekly Zoom open discussions. Register here.
• June 10 & July 8 @ 11:00 AM Central: CLA: How to Start a Laundromat – Free Virtual Workshop on laundry investment and management. Special Guest: Paul Hansen, Mr. Sudsy Consulting. June 10 Registration | July 8 Registration
• June 10 @ 1:00 PM Central: ALM: National Meeting. Registration required. Connect, reflect, and stay engaged with the Association for Linen Management. Register here.
• June 11 @ 12:00 PM Central: CLA: Strategic Corporate Ally Product Showcase – Free; includes equipment and tech demonstrations from industry leaders. Event details.
• June 19 @ 1:00 PM Central: DLI: Marketing Masterclass – Free for members. Monthly marketing discussions via Zoom. Register here.
• June 19 @ 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Central: CLA: Eco-Friendly Practices – Free Zoom event on sustainable laundromat practices. More info.
• June 25 @ 12:00 PM Central: DLI: Data Mining Your Sales Reports – Understand your customer trends with Wash Respess. Register here.
• July 9 @ 11:00 AM Central: CLA: Women’s Laundry Network – Fireside Chat with Dr. Wendy Borlabi. Free Zoom event featuring the Chicago Bulls’ mental performance coach. Event details (URL placeholder; add when available).

MCC Service Tips

Excessive Lint: The Great Enemy: Do You Need Secondary Lint Filtration?

Lint is the omnipresent enemy in any laundry. Regular preventative actions to minimize its accumulation are crucial to maintain optimal operation and minimize the risk of dryer fires.

• Dryer lint screens should ideally be cleaned after approximately every 4 hours of use.
• If the lint screen or filter has any holes in it or is not attached to the frame properly, it should be replaced.
• Excess lint in the lint compartment/lint drawer and in the burner compartment/oven must be routinely removed.
• With power at the breaker OFF, vacuum the entire lint compartment once a week. Clean the fan blades at the same time.
• The burner box should be vacuumed once a month.

If you need extra support in your battle against lint, or with other preventative maintenance items for your laundry equipment, Minnesota Chemical is more than happy to assist your team either over the phone, or in person via service call. PM contracts of varying scopes and intervals are often a good solution. Call to set up one-time or regular service PM visits.

If you are doing all this and still find you have excessive lint accumulation, but have no room for a standard in-line filter, and you do not have compressed air available for such a filter, consider the easy solution:

Energenics Air-Free OPL Series Secondary Lint Filters

• Operate completely free of added utilities
• Range in capacities of 1,000 CFM to 10,000 CFM
• Use gravity instead of compressed air to shed collected lint into a receptacle below
• Offered in Standard (round), Flat-Mount (rectangular), and Duct-Mount (compact vertical) configurations
• Only single-dryer model (Duct-Mount) that is self-cleaning

Energenics manufactures the most diverse selection of Air-Free lint collectors on the market today. Contact MCC service or sales for more information at 1-800-328-5689.

Parts Ideas From Barb

Spring Cleaning and Equipment Tune-Ups

To ensure you get the right part for your machine the first time, please remember:

1. Have your model and serial number on hand when you call me.
2. If you happen to have any manuals for the machine, having them handy when you call is often helpful in case clarification is needed.
3. I recommend that the person working on the machine call themself—since that person best understands the situation and how to explain it—having someone else order it may produce errors or misunderstandings that lead to the wrong part being ordered.

As always, please contact me in the Minnesota Chemical Parts Department with any parts questions at (651) 288-4849.

Featured Products 

Energenics UV-MAX is a portable UV-C sanitizer device to disinfect rooms, soiled sort areas, trucks and comes in two sizes. Call for equipment department sales.

Sanitizing supplies—we have hand sanitizer by Pariser HAND-SAN, ECOLAB products, and gloves. Call for supply department sales.

Lint Scrubber filters the air and encapsulates the dust and lint. With the UV Light option, the Lint Scrubber disinfects the particles collected.

ON-PREMISE LAUNDRIES in Hotels, care facilities, and Hospitals:  Energenics Lint Buster Lint Filters are now available with bacteria-killing UV LIGHT.  Clean lint from your indoor air and clean bacteria from your indoor air. 

LAUNDRY and HOUSEKEEPING Sanitizing Supplies: We have hand sanitizer, disinfecting surface cleaners, and disinfecting laundry supplies by ECOLAB and Pariser.  Call Chris at 651-288-4845.

DRY CLEANERS: Sankosha has an operating showroom just outside Chicago. Try out live equipment! And rest assured, Sankosha supports new or used Sankosha equipment with parts and service help.

MILNOR and HUEBSCH are two of our favorite vendors. Feel free to visit their websites (Milnor and Huebsch) for more details on their great products!