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Laundry - SpeciaL report

Inside the operations of a
clean room laundry

An hour’s drive from Bengaluru brings me to what looks like a sophisticated
pharma manufacturing facility. Professionally controlled delivery vehicles line
up alongside the state-of-the-art, access-controlled building. Even the office
corridors are immaculately clean. On my way to the conference room, I pass
the laboratory of the facility…which doesn’t manufacture anything at all.

Almost one-and-a-half centuries ago, Micronclean started in the UK as
a wicker basket-based laundry service for hotels that were springing up
because of the arrival of the railways, bringing holidaymakers to the seaside
town of Skegness. Today, it is a pioneer in industrial workwear rental,
with its first clean room laundry outside of the UK ready and running near

Bengaluru – the ‘manufacturing facility’ where I am.
Visitors like me find the strictly controlled environment of the clean room

and other areas so far ahead of its time that a pharma business leader –
who shall remain unnamed – jokingly suggested that the facility
is fit not just for cleaning and disinfecting the uniforms
of pharma manufacturing operators, but actually
manufacturing drugs as well!

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