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Laundry

Supplier and service provider:
a double-engine laundry leader

Sanket Jain and Mayur Bhalgat, Partners, K&B Associates tell Clean India

Journal about their strengths and successes.

Mayur Bhalgat & Sanket Jain

Tell us about the products such laundries; operate laundries What features do your
in your portfolio. invested in by the client; or simply solutions have to reduce
supply the equipment.
We are the biggest supplier for consumption of water,
LG commercial laundry machines What is the USP of your power and chemicals?
pan-India. We offer washer company?
extractors, tumble dryers, auto We use chemicals which require
dosing systems, as well as wet We have the biggest technical fewer wash cycles. Our machines are
cleaning machines from Speed team across India – with 42 also designed to consume less water.
Queen and Dexter. technicians – covering every state. We do not heat water in the
Our lead time is below 48 hours for machine itself; instead, we
Which market segments any client. manufacture electric and gas
do you cater to? geysers which are placed next to
Tell us about your work the washer, which act as an instant
We are specialists in supplying with the education sector. source of hot water. They heat
retail laundries that have 300 sq ft water during rinsing and extraction,
franchisees with 10-15 kg capacity We approach large colleges and and keep it ready for the next batch,
machines. We are also the service universities, and invest in and thereby reducing wash time.
provider for uniform washing in operate campus laundries. We
the food processing industry, dairy collect a fee from colleges; colleges What industry segments
industry and pharma industry. are free to charge students as they do you plan to focus on in
For the latter group, we have deem fit. the future?
cleanroom as well as regular We do not operate on a per
washer-extractors and dryers, with garment/volume basis. Each student We will continue to focus on food,
capacity ranging from 30-120 is eligible to avail of a certain pharma, education and retail. Apart
kg. We offer multiple options: number of laundry cycles per year. from these, we will also explore
we can act as a service provider This model is up and running in 25 setting up laundromats in residential
by investing in and operating colleges across India. complexes and gated communities. CIJ

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