Continental Girbau

Continental Laundry Solutions, the brand formerly known as Continental Girbau, supplies commercial laundry equipment and the design, installation, training, and service around it. It sells through a distributor network and serves vended laundries, on-premise laundry rooms, campgrounds and RV parks, hospitality guest laundries, correctional facilities, professional linen care, and industrial operations.

The product line runs from open-pocket washers and dryers to continuous batch tunnel washers, ironers, feeders, and folding systems, plus gear and turnout dryers and the ExpressClean chemistry delivery system. GS-Series washer-extractors are its vended machines. Equipment comes with warranty coverage, financing options, and local service through the distributor network.

Support extends past the machine: the company helps with layout planning, installation, staff training, and ongoing maintenance, and publishes a step-by-step guide to opening a laundromat covering research and planning, location analysis, equipment selection and layout, financing, and opening day. A separate guide covers expanding a laundromat into commercial work through wash-dry-fold, pickup and delivery, and commercial processing.

The company says it has worked with distributors since 1995 and is part of EVI Industries. It cites the Coin Laundry Industry Survey finding that 67% of laundromat owners name utilities their largest operating cost. Equipment is bought through a distributor, so pricing and service commitments come from the local distributor rather than the manufacturer.