The Laundry Service has been a service department at The University of Iowa since 1890. What began with washboards, wooden wash and rinse tubs, and clotheslines has become one of the most technologically advanced institutional laundries in the nation.

The Oakdale Campus facility provides the Laundry Service with an efficient use of space and increased production and service to our customers. The facility has a ceiling mounted monorail bagging system that allows movement of over one hundred pounds of laundry per bag.

Other features provided in this move are the automation of laundry production and linen tracking in real-time. The University of Iowa Laundry Service uses 450-pound washers-extractors and dryers that work in tandem with the monorail bagging system. All are software driven. The software applications run on a LAN Server located in the General Office. The management staff uses reports from these applications for daily and weekly production activities. 

Laundry Service is a division of Finance and Operations.