A free program offered to on-campus students allows students to receive two bedsheets, two towels and a pillowcase once a week for free by exchanging the previous week’s linens.

Spartan Linen Services manager Michael Hull said use of linen packages have risen slightly throughout the years he’s run the facility.?

“When kids come in for orientation, there’s been more of an emphasis on linen pack exchange,” Hull said. “It’s an opportunity for us to put that product in front of them.”?

Hull did not begin in the linen services industry, but joined Spartan Linen Services after owning own his own food business for 21 years. ?

“I wasn’t a laundry person, per se,” Hull said, referring to his previous career. “(Spartan Linen Services is) pretty amazing. It’s all about efficiencies and keeping up with equipment and technology.” ?

The facility utilizes three trucks that constantly are retrieving various linens from around campus to be washed, Hull said.?

The linens are then organized and prepared to be placed in a $1.2 million tunnel-like washing machine that can handle loads of up to 1,000 pounds.

The laundry is inserted into the machine from 90-pound bags, and after traveling through different stages of detergents and rinsing, the load is pressed into what Hull calls a “linen cake” by a large piston. Two of the cakes are then inserted by conveyor belt in one of the facility’s four industrial dryers.