KEEPING LINENS CLEAN FOR OVER A CENTURY

Elmsford, New York-based Unitex Healthcare Laundry Services has won individual and corporate 2024 TRSA Company Community Service awards. CEO Robert Potack was feted for his work as president and board member of the Boys & Girls Club of Mount Vernon, where Unitex was previously headquartered. The club serves more than 800 youths and over 1,500 locals through a variety of club-directed programs. Previously, Potack served on the club’s Board of Directors and continues to dedicate countless hours to driving its programs.
Unitex has supported dozens of organizations and initiatives, such as recently donating 30 CPR kits for the American Heart Association to train school-aged children in the Bronx. Other beneficiaries have included the Ronald McDonald House in New Haven, Connecticut, for its naming grant for newest house, and serving on the Board of the Newburgh, New York, Community Land Back, which aims to develop and enhance the city’s downtown waterfront area.
Unitex is a fourth-generation family-owned and operated company, operating 13 laundry processing facilities in the Northeast. The company employs over 2,000 team members and serves more than 7,500 health-care customers who depend on the company’s services to support their employees and patients with clean linen and uniforms. Unitex provides, launders and delivers customized health-care apparel, patient gowns, linens, towels, floor mats, microfiber products and other reusable patient-preferred products. The company is recognized as the largest family-owned and operated health-care laundry company in the USA and has been in business for over 100 years.
Based in Alexandria, Virginia, TRSA represents the nearly $50 billion U.S. linen, uniform and facility services industry by promoting the economic and environmental benefits of reusable textiles. Member companies supply, launder and maintain textiles for the range of businesses across the economy. TRSA verifies and quantifies the industry’s commitment to sustainability and cleanliness through its Clean Green and Hygienically Clean certification programs.