CLEAN linen on a hotel bed and clean towels in the bathroom, clean seats and headrests on a plane – we expect nothing less.
But these items don’t get there by themselves; they all need to be washed, dried, pressed and transported – and Atlas Linen Service is responsible for much of the work the consuming public in Western Australia takes for granted.
Basil and Georgiana Lenzo are growing Atlas through its well-respected reputation and ability to tap into a diverse range of major industry sectors.
Since Atlas bought Margaret River-based Ocean Fresh Linen in 2006, the company now services more than 65 per cent of WA’s South West tourism sector including the Abbey Beach Resort, the Margaret River Hotel, and Quay West Resort, Bunker Bay. In Perth, Mustard Catering, the Rottnest Island Authority and the Vines Resort, Fitness and Golf Club are just some of the businesses on Atlas’s books.
Added to this is an impressive client-base spanning across the resources, hospitality, aviation, defence and medical industries, which have collectively helped double personnel at Atlas from 60 to 110 since 2008.
The company foresees further growth from the acquisition of its Margaret River facility and relocation to its Belmont premises where new equipment and vehicles have been purchased to foster its expansion plans.
Atlas’s presence in the resources sector has been bolstered by contracts with Compass Group – the remote area accommodation provider that represents a significant sector of the market.
This includes Chevron’s $43billion LNG Gorgon Barrow Island project where Atlas successfully met the island’s stringent quarantine criteria.
Atlas services Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Cathay Pacific, Malaysian, South African Airlines, Virgin Airlines, and Skywest, and it is the preferred and sole service provider for Qantas’s inflight catering network.
Recycling and eco-friendly practices have become a key focus for the company in recent years, with the appointment of Welshpool-based wastewater treatment plant specialist QED Octech to develop a water treatment facility to take 100 per cent of all wastewater used and return 82 per cent treated water back for recycling.
Atlas is also in the process of exploring a radio frequency identification device – a tracking system that relies on micro-chip and radio wave technology to locate individual items or scan entire batches and their contents concurrently.
