A total of 3 Winter Olympic villages were set up at the Beijing Winter Olympics, namely Chaoyang in Beijing, Yanqing in Beijing and Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province. You may not believe it, but during the games, the clothes of a large number of athletes living in the Winter Olympic Village were sent to a laundry factory called Breelin in Anding Town, Daxing District, outside the South Sixth Ring Road in Beijing.
Why choose this factory? What are the strict standards for athletes' clothing washing? On December 23, a client reporter from Beijing Daily visited the factory.
"The factory is specially built for receiving e-commerce laundry orders, and can wash 4,000 clothes a day. Such a large-scale laundry factory is difficult to find in Beijing. Yu Dawei, the head of the Breelin laundry factory, said that in order to serve the Beijing Winter Olympics, all the orders for the factory have now been transferred to other factories. The reporter walked into the factory, as far as the eye could see, is a large laundry, drying equipment, almost every equipment is about the same height as adults. Look closely and count, there are a total of 8 dryers with a capacity of 100 kg; 5 of the washing machines have a capacity of 100 kg, and another has a capacity of 40 kg; there are 4 dry cleaning machines with a capacity of 25 kg and 1 with a capacity of 10 kg...
During the Beijing Winter Olympics, athletes who have clothes that need to be washed can hand them over to Brilin's front desk staff in the Winter Olympic Village. After that, the clothes are packed, packed into boxes, and transported by special trucks to the laundry factory in Daxingding in the form of closed-loop management. In order to implement the epidemic prevention requirements, trucks will not go through the gate of the park where the laundry factory is located, and the Anding Town Government has deliberately opened a small door near the factory, allowing only trucks transporting Winter Olympic clothing to enter and exit.
Clothes from the Winter Olympic Village, when they arrive at the laundry factory, do not immediately start washing. It is necessary to disinfect the outer packaging in the yard first, then open the packaging and dry for 1 hour. After that, the clothes enter the factory and are disinfected after 1 hour of ultraviolet radiation. This is not the end, before the official washing, but also get a walk in the dryer, experience a high temperature of more than 75 degrees Celsius for at least 45 minutes, before you can prepare for washing. "Whether it is washed or dried, it must be pre-treated first, and if the clothes are damaged, you must contact the customers in the Winter Olympic Village as soon as possible." Yu Dawei said.
Laundry factory washes 4,000 clothes a day, an athlete may send 5 pieces of clothing at the same time, some wash some dry cleaning, after the laundry is completed, how to quickly find out all the clothes of a person? The reporter came to the ironing and shipping area next door to the washing area, and the clothing selection system composed of display screens, scanning guns and conveyor belts was to solve this problem. It turns out that all the clothes of the same customer will be included in the same order, sharing a code, the scanner can be automatically recognized, just like the screening courier, showing the position of all the clothes in the same order on the conveyor belt on the display screen, and the staff then manually removes and packs, and completes the entire laundry process.
After completing the laundry, the clothes are first bagged, then disinfected the outer packaging, then packed and disinfected, before loading, the truck must also be disinfected again, and the seal can be attached before departure. "In the process of transporting from the factory to the Winter Olympic Village, the driver cannot get off the bus to ensure closed-loop management." Yu Dawei said that during the Beijing Winter Olympics, all employees of the laundry factory will not leave the factory and live in an independent dormitory area, strictly implementing the epidemic prevention requirements. At present, the party committee and government of Anding Town have set up a support group to help Brerin complete the service task of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.