Menker Laundry Marine Consultants offers professional laundry consultancy and project management, focused on the marine and cruise ship industry.
Menker – Laundry Marine Consultants can provide a comprehensive independent unique operational approach to laundry engineering, development and advice in the development and operational advice of Cruise ship laundries and in the entire marine industry.
As independent experts for Cruise ship laundries, we are focused on the individual operational needs of our clients to be specifically designed, developed and tailored to their needs.
With our clients consultation we develop laundries catered to your needs to improve the operational efficiency, hygiene and sustainability.
The potential operators have of improvement to existing systems can sometimes be as simple as reprogramming of equipment. The operators benefit of existing equipment you have, without investing in new.
We are ready to support and consult you in all your laundry related tasks, if you want to leave the obsolete beaten paths in new building laundry set-up and laundry operation.
We are ready to support and consult you in all your laundry related tasks, if you want to leave the obsolete beaten paths in new building laundry set-up and laundry operation.
Menker is providing professional laundry concepts for Cruise ship laundries and the marine industry, with a holistic operational approach.
- Our Consultancy and advice follows a balancing of the operational laundry requirements, whilst considering technical items and possible impacts on other connected systems, services and processes onboard.
- As laundry consulting, project management experts, we want to show and advise how to refine and upgrade the laundry departments on new buildings and on existing vessels in operation.
- With an ever-increasing owner, operator and public awareness we are focused and determined on the reduction of the environmental impact of marine laundry’s and advise clients on the elements that can assist to achieve a cleaner, greener operation , it is clear a decarbonization within the cruise ship and marine sector will not work without an energy reduction this can start with the laundry departments.
- Owners, suppliers and builder’s have differing, , economic targets, with our expertise and intimate knowledge we will coordinate, refine and focus activity’s to ensure our clients receive a fully functional safe design, sustainable, with maximum efficiency, operational flow and within budget. We have the internal expertise to and provide the required detailed knowledge to manage on behalf of, or with our clients to achieve the most efficient, sustainable, hygienic and safe laundry solutions.
- We want to assist and professionalize our client’s entire laundry departments on new and existing projects
- We know from experience with our knowledge, support and guidance it will prove to be economically beneficial to our clients, as your initial investment with us versus the savings which can be achieved will be significantly lower.
Newbuilding
We offer a full support package in the development of laundry departments for new buildings and refit projects, including laundry layout, equipment specifications and project management.
Our unique difference is that we are starting with the operational concept, before we specify the laundry equipment and the design layout.
This operational laundry engineering approach should be the standard, but it isn’t.
The yard supplies a ship which contains a laundry space and the equipment supplier, supplies equipment. Both done within a ship design where architects don’t consider operational and technical laundry requirements. This combination ultimately leads always to the well-known phrase “The crew will find a way to manage it”.
We at Menker – Laundry Marine Consultants develop laundries from an operational perspective with a holistic operational approach to fulfill the operational needs, to be efficient, hygiene safe and sustainable.
The technical part is important, but it ultimately needs to fulfill the operational requirements, not the opposite as can still be found in some designs today.
Operation
A laundry within the marine industry plays a major specific role onboard for all Guests and Crew alike. These needs to provide an efficient laundry require specific experience, thought, design and attention to details and be carefully considered, no longer should they be regarded as just a room back of house housing laundry equipment.
While the marine industry tries to minimize costs and make claims to their endeavor’s on improving environmental impact, it’s surprising that for some owners and operators the laundry’s remain untouched from an advanced operational and technical perspective.
Today, literally millions of owners and operator’s dollars continue to be wasted through inefficient laundry layouts and there operational set up. Owners and operators could make significant noticeable reductions of these wasted dollars with a more efficient and professional laundry operation with a holistic approach.
A big environmental factor decarbonization is the hot topic in how this can be reduced, the fact is the laundry is one of the biggest energy consumers onboard.
Have you ever reviewed if your laundry operation meets your linen care recommendations and how you can increase the linen life cycle?
Environment
Don’t you find it a little unusual that you haven’t seen any development in your detergent product portfolio, while onshore laundries have made significant steps during the past decades?
We at Menker believe to seriously review these items you require an experienced expert in laundry, who is constantly looking into the latest technologies available and able to provide an independent review providing real opportunities in your interests and not from a supplier point of view.
Laundries on cruise ships are far away to be sustainable or efficient.
Wash extractors using 50% more water and energy compared to same equipment onshore, while tunnel washer systems still using 20% more water, energy and detergents.
Obviously it is not an advertised fact that the industry causes more than 1,000,000 p.a. empty plastic drums through their laundry operation, shows that things could be optimized.
While plastic straws and single used plastic are banned on most cruise ships, micro and nano plastic from laundry operation is still discharged to sea.
While onshore laundries have made substantial progress and advances during the past decades to reduce their environmental impact, many cruise ship laundries and ultimately their employees are also continuing to operate in the past.
The energy and water consumption as well CO2 impact is still the same, simplest measurements for decarbonization are not implemented.
If you have an interest to reduce the environmental impact of your laundries, something you can really shout about we at Menker would be delighted to support and assist you.
Menker
Certified Laundry Engineers
Menker, was founded as a commercial hotel laundry in the 1950’s, focusing today as an independent laundry consultant and expertise focused on the Cruise ship and marine industry.
Why Choose ...?
Menker Laundry Marine Consultants
It’s time, because newbuilding and refit laundry projects are based since decades on the same approach, defined by yards and suppliers. We are still seeing technical and operational set ups on newbuilding’s, which are totally obsolete and usually not used any more on shore since years.
Our evaluation & audits on board pointing always the same topics. The interesting thing is, that still after we have provided our reports, operator executives trust on supplier statements like “it doesn’t work on Cruise ships”. But in truth, our recommendations have already been implemented, concepts are working, leads to a higher efficiency and reduction of the environmental impact.
The challenge is, to convince suppliers to change their sales philosophy to a more service orientated approach.
Operators should clearly specify their own needs and expectations for an holistic laundry approach and suppliers should to be guided to follow this defined concept.
Neither yards nor suppliers have the holistic required technical and operational laundry background to set up laundries or to optimize the operation, as they are focused on their own specific technical areas.
You as operator are the only part in such projects, with an interest in an efficient, hygiene safe and sustainable laundry. Only you as operator have to pay finally the daily laundry bill.
If you want to have a well working and efficient on board laundry, you need an own professional educated and experienced in-house laundry expert, or Menker Laundry Marine Consultants, as a full or part time supporting part of your technical and hotel operations teams.
So, finally the question is not why to choose Menker Laundry Marine Consultants. The question is, do you want to keep the status quo of inefficient cruise ship laundries, or do you want to improve and professionalize your laundries in general to meet and exceed your targets?
