Ecotex is doing more than just dirty laundry, we’re helping to make healthcare more sustainable
10 May, 2024
Move to reusable isolation gowns helps UHN ‘hit our sustainability sweet spot’
05 March, 2024
Ecotex to Purchase Mohawk Medbuy Linen Services and Make Major Investment in Hamilton Facility
12 January, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON (January 12, 2024) – Mohawk Medbuy Corporation (MMC) is pleased to announce the sale of its Linen Services division to Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service, a family- owned leader in the health care linens service business in Canada and the United States. The sale follows a competitive process facilitated...
Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service referenced in Canadian Reusable PPE Research
23 December, 2023
TORONTO, CANADA (December 23, 2023) -- Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service was referenced as a healthcare leader in research led by the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, and released on December 23, 2023, titled “A Circular Economy Model for Hospital-Generated PPE and Medical Single-Use Plastic Waste: Demonstrating Opportunities for Reduction...
Bryan Bartsch Ascends to CEO Role at Ecotex
28 November, 2023
Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, recently announced that Bryan Bartsch, who has served as the president of the Ecotex Group since 2018, will succeed his father, Randy Bartsch, as the company’s next CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2024. He will become the third generation of the Bartsch family...
Grand opening of the newest Ecotex facility
14 October, 2022
Ecotex is pleased to announce the grand opening of the newest Ecotex facility, which serves as a regional distribution hub for the healthcare laundry in the region. Our team worked on this project from its original design, through to the buildout phase. Today we have a beautiful new building for...
Ameritex Services joins the Ecotex Service Group
03 January, 2022
OMAHA, NEBRASKA (January 3, 2022) - Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service Corporation (“Ecotex”) is pleased to announce that it has acquired Ameritex Services (“Ameritex”), the leading provider of quality healthcare laundry and linen services to hospitals, medical clinics, and long-term care facilities across Nebraska. Following the acquisition, Ameritex, an Omaha based...
More than Half of Disposable Gowns ECRI Tested Fail to Meet Necessary Protection Standards
10 November, 2020
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—New analyses by the nation’s leading patient safety organization show that more than 50 percent of the disposable isolation gowns it tested failed to meet standard levels of protection, putting healthcare workers at risk of exposure to bloodborne or other pathogens, as well as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that...
Ecotex Recognized by the TRSA with the Industry’s Best Laundry Plants of the Year Award in North America
09 March, 2020
VANCOUVER, CANADA (March 9, 2020) — The new Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service (“Ecotex”), linen processing facility in Kelowna, British Columbia was awarded as one of the “Best Laundry Plants of the Year in North America” by Textile Rental Services Association (TRSA), the industry’s international trade association. Annually TRSA awards its...