PURO TEXTILE CARE SERVICES OY: S&N INVOLVED IN BUILDING A SAFE AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT LAUNDRY ENVIRONMENT

 
Puro Textile Care Services Oy is Finland's leading expert in healthcare textile care. The company, critical to security of supply, serves the social and healthcare sector in an area covering nearly half of Finland's population. Puro's textile handling process has been refined to perfection and its production lines process a total of 60,000 kilograms of laundry daily across three facilities. Puro's textiles accompany both nurses and patients through life's significant moments, from birth to death.
Puro Textile Care Services' maintenance manager Thomas Lauth explains that energy efficiency is an important part of Puro's resource ingenuity, where the goal is to save both human and natural resources. The laundry uses district heating energy and the facility has an extensive piping system, where heat loss increases heating energy costs. Heat loss also raises indoor temperatures, which requires efficient ventilation equipment.

The cooperation between Puro and S&N Oy began when S&N introduced CTP, a new innovative insulation solution, to Puro. Thomas Lauth praises that, based on S&N's strong industry expertise, mineral wool insulation on piping, valves, connections and flanges has been systematically replaced with CTP. Lauth explains that based on S&N's expertise, the locations where insulation provides them with the most benefit have been identified. Lauth highlights the greatest added value of the S&N cooperation as the effortless availability of special parts. He praises that at S&N they can immediately advise what kind of custom-made parts can be produced.

As the most important added value of CTP, Lauth emphasises the ease and speed of installation. CTP insulation material can be opened for maintenance and refastened without any loss of insulation performance. The safety of piping maintenance personnel is a priority, as the pipes carry approximately 180-degree steam generated from washing and drying textiles, and flange temperatures can rise up to 200 degrees. The piping runs along ceiling lines, making insulation challenging and the risk of burns high. As a material, CTP is completely non-toxic and recyclable. CTP does not absorb moisture, thus maintaining excellent insulation performance even in humid environments. There are also locations where traditional mineral wool cannot be used at all, such as flexible metal piping, the insulation of which with CTP is next in line, Lauth explains and states that the insulation effect of CTP is noticeable immediately.