Commercial Laundry Equipment — Sales, Parts & Service Since 1969

CLEC is an authorized distributor for four major commercial laundry brands:

UniMac — OPL and light commercial washer-extractors, dryers, stacked units, and PPE drying cabinets. The gold standard for institutional and heavy commercial use.

Speed Queen — Vended coin-op/card-pay equipment for laundromats and multi-housing, plus non-vended homestyle machines for amenity laundry rooms.

Braun — Industrial flatwork ironers, feeders, folders, and complete linen finishing systems for high-volume hotel and linen service operations.

CMV Sharper Finish — Commercial ironers and finishing equipment for hotels, restaurants, and dry cleaning operations.

Factory authorization means we carry the full product lines, stock genuine OEM parts, and can provide manufacturer warranty support — not available through grey-market or unauthorized resellers.

OPL (On-Premise Laundry) equipment is designed for businesses that process their own linen in-house — hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants, and any institution with consistent laundry volume. These machines prioritize high-speed extraction, programmable cycles, and durability for continuous daily use by staff operators. Capacities range from 20 to 450+ pounds per load.

Vended equipment is built for laundromats and shared laundry rooms where members of the public pay per use. These machines are engineered with integrated payment systems (coin, card reader, or app) and tamper-resistant construction to handle heavy daily use by many different users. Speed Queen’s vended line is the industry benchmark for laundromat operators.

The right choice depends entirely on your business model: are you processing your own linen (OPL), or offering pay-per-use laundry service (vended)?

Hardmount washer-extractors are bolted directly to a reinforced concrete floor. The floor absorbs the vibration generated during high-speed extraction. Hardmounts are typically less expensive to purchase and are excellent for ground-floor concrete installations where structural reinforcement is straightforward.

Softmount washer-extractors use internal suspension systems to isolate vibration within the machine. This eliminates the need for a special floor — softmounts can go on upper floors, wood subfloors, or locations where a reinforced slab isn’t practical. Softmounts also typically achieve much higher G-force extraction (up to 400G vs. ~100G for hardmounts), which means substantially drier loads coming out of the washer, faster dryer cycles, and lower energy costs over time.

For most ground-floor installations with a concrete slab, hardmount is a very cost-effective choice. For upper-floor or renovation installs, softmount is almost always the right answer.

Proper sizing depends on four factors: your daily linen volume in pounds, your operating hours and desired throughput, available floor space, and your utility infrastructure (water pressure, drain capacity, and electrical or gas service).

As a rough guide for OPL operations: a 50–60 lb machine is common for small boutique hotels or care facilities; a 100–125 lb machine serves mid-size hotels or moderate-volume facilities; and 200 lb+ machines are used by large hotels, hospitals, and high-volume institutional laundries.

Undersizing is the most common and costly mistake — it creates a bottleneck that forces overtime labor or pushes linen out to an expensive service. We offer free consultations to calculate the right capacity based on your actual volume and goals. Just give us a call.

OPTispray™ is a recirculating spray rinse that replaces traditional deep-fill bath rinses. By misting water through the load as it tumbles rather than filling the drum, OPTispray uses up to 50% less water per rinse cycle while achieving better detergent removal. For high-volume hotel or healthcare laundries, this translates to significant annual water and sewer savings.

OPTidry™ is a moisture-sensing system in UniMac dryers that continuously monitors moisture levels and ends the cycle automatically when laundry reaches target dryness. This prevents overdrying — the leading cause of premature linen wear and replacement — and eliminates wasted energy from running cycles longer than necessary.

UniLinc™ Touch is UniMac’s programmable control platform. It supports 34 languages, allows creation of custom wash programs, includes built-in ECO-mode cycles, and provides onboard diagnostics to simplify troubleshooting.

Yes. Service and repair is a core part of what we do — not an afterthought. Our factory-trained technicians service UniMac, Speed Queen, Braun, and CMV equipment across Southeast Florida including Palm Beach County, Broward County, and surrounding areas.

We maintain stocked parts inventories to handle the most common repairs on-site without waiting for a parts order. We also offer preventive maintenance programs — scheduled service visits to inspect, clean, and adjust equipment before problems develop.

Having a service partner who knows your equipment, carries the right parts, and responds quickly is worth far more than saving a few dollars buying from a company that doesn’t service what they sell.

Yes, and we’ve done it many times. As authorized Speed Queen vended distributors, we supply the complete machine lineup for new laundromats — front-loaders, top-loaders, stack dryers, and payment systems — and handle the full installation.

We help you think through the equipment mix, advise on payment system options (coin, card readers, app-based), set up Speed Queen Insights remote monitoring so you can manage your store from your phone, and coordinate the installation.

If you’re evaluating a laundromat investment in South Florida, we’re a good first call. We can speak candidly about what to prioritize, what to budget, and what to avoid.

Flatwork finishing equipment includes commercial ironers, feeders, and folders that press and fold flat linen items — sheets, pillowcases, tablecloths, and napkins — at speeds impossible by hand. The main candidates are hotels and resorts with high daily linen volume, restaurants and event venues with tablecloth programs, and commercial linen rental operations.

CLEC carries three flatwork finishing lines: UniMac heated roll finishers for smaller to mid-scale operations; CMV Sharper Finish systems for institutional and hotel use; and Braun industrial flatwork systems for high-volume operations requiring integrated feeding, ironing, folding, and stacking in a single automated line.

Yes. In addition to our Southeast Florida service area, CLEC handles international equipment exports for buyers in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and beyond. Our location in West Palm Beach — near Port of Palm Beach — positions us well for Caribbean and Latin American export business.

International buyers can purchase UniMac, Speed Queen, Braun, and CMV equipment through CLEC. We assist with equipment selection, shipping coordination, and export documentation. Contact us at 561-848-0054 or via our contact form to discuss your requirements.

CLEC was founded in 1969 by Fritz Hensel and is now operated by his sons Bob and Paul — giving the company over 55 years of continuous family-owned operation. In the commercial equipment industry, longevity matters:

A distributor that’s been in business for 55+ years has earned and maintained its manufacturer authorizations year over year, built relationships with accounts that keep coming back for decades, and developed service technicians with deep hands-on experience on the machines they service. We’re not a startup. We’re a family-owned company that has been solving commercial laundry problems in South Florida since 1969 — and we take that seriously.