Lavatio
Lavatio Gruppe is a German textile services group providing industrial laundry and rental linen services to hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, and industrial clients across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, processing 200–250 tonnes of laundry daily.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2019
- HeadquartersLviv, Ukraine
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Lavatio does
Lavatio Gruppe is a privately held German textile services group headquartered in Hünfeld, Germany, providing industrial laundry and textile rental services to customers across the hospitality, healthcare, and industrial workwear sectors. The group operates through multiple member companies (including Kruppert, Textilservice Indlekofer, Gall Wäscheservice, Textil-Service Ilse, Ruck Textile Dienstleistungen, Wäscherei Colonia, Allendorfer Mietwäsche-Service, Lavatio AG Switzerland, Wäscherei Alpenland, and Witteler & Burkhardt), each retaining its regional brand identity while consolidating under a unified corporate platform. Core offerings include rental textiles (bed, bath, table, and kitchen linens) for hotels and gastronomy, hygienic textile processing for clinics and hospitals, disinfecting laundry services for senior and nursing homes with electronic item tracking, and rental professional/protective workwear for industrial clients, alongside specialized OP (operating room) textile services and outsourcing/quality assurance support.
The group's underlying technology stack is built around industrial-scale textile processing hardware (including Kannegiesser-equipped facilities), modern dosing systems, water recycling plants, and electronic scanning/sorting systems that identify and assign individual textile items to their owners to achieve near-zero mis-sorting. Lavatio's business model is a B2B recurring rental subscription: customers pay monthly fees that convert fixed textile procurement and storage costs into variable expenses, with complimentary replacement of damaged items, scheduled pickup/delivery via the group's own fleet, and quote-based pricing tailored to volume and service requirements. The group processes approximately 200–250 tonnes of laundry daily and serves more than 2,200 active customers across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
Lavatio firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Lavatio
- Legal name
- Lavatio GmbH
- Website
- https://lavatio-gruppe.de
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2019
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Lavatio Gruppe is a German textile services group providing industrial laundry and rental linen services to hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, and industrial clients across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, processing 200–250 tonnes of laundry daily.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Lavatio industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Commercial Textile Rental and Laundry Services
- NAICS
- Industrial Launderers (812332), Linen Supply (812331), Linen and Uniform Supply (81233), Drycleaning and Laundry Services (8123)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Hospitality (Hotel/Resort) Linen Laundry (HSAJAEAB)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Bed & Bath Linen Service (Sheets, Pillowcases, Bath Mats) (HSAJAMAH)
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Where Lavatio is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Lviv
- HQ country
- Ukraine
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices11 records
Markets served
Lavatio business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Textile Rental (Mietwäsche): Rental of textiles including bed, bath, table linens to hotels, restaurants, healthcare facilities. Customers pay a monthly rental fee, eliminating capital investment in textiles. Damaged textiles are replaced free of charge.
- Laundry/Processing Services: Washing and processing of customer-owned textiles with hygiene guarantees for healthcare, hospitality, and industrial clients.
- Professional Workwear Rental: Rental and maintenance of professional and protective workwear for industry, craft, and emergency services including compliance with safety regulations.
- OP Textile Service: Specialized surgical textile processing service ensuring infection safety, functionality, profitability, and handling simplification for operating room covering systems.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit Pricing | Monthly | Custom textile rental packages based on customer requirements |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels4 records
Lavatio product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Lavatio Gruppe is a textile services group that rents and launders commercial textiles on a subscription basis for B2B customers in the DACH region. The company supplies and processes bed, bath, table, and kitchen linens, workwear, and protective clothing for hotels, restaurants, healthcare facilities, nursing homes, and industrial clients, converting customers' fixed textile costs into variable monthly rental fees while providing pickup, washing, and delivery logistics.
Product overview
Lavatio is a leading textile services group in the German-speaking region providing comprehensive laundry and rental textile solutions. The company operates through multiple member companies (Kruppert, Textilservice Indlekofer, Gall Wäscheservice, Textil-Service Ilse, Ruck Textile Dienstleistungen, Wäscherei Colonia, Allendorfer Mietwäsche-Service, Lavatio AG Switzerland, Wäscherei Alpenland, and Witteler & Burkhardt) offering a unified portfolio of services including: Hotel and Gastronomy Textile Services (rental bed, table, terry, and kitchen linens); Healthcare Textile Services (clinics, hospitals, nursing homes with disinfecting washing procedures); Professional and Protective Clothing Service (workwear with welding, flame, chemical, and high-visibility protection); Operating Room Laundry Service; and Outsourcing/Quality Assurance Support Services. With approximately 800+ employees across 8+ locations, the group processes around 200-250 tons of laundry daily serving over 2,200 active customers in hospitality, gastronomy, healthcare, and industry sectors.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Hotel and Gastronomy Textile Services Full textile supply and laundry services for hotels, restaurants, and catering businesses, including rental of bed, table, terry, and kitchen linens as well as textiles for kitchen and service personnel. Eliminates capital investment in textiles and provides guaranteed quality with free replacement of damaged items.
- Healthcare Textile Services (Clinics and Hospitals) Hygienic textile services for clinics and hospitals meeting strict legal requirements for listed washing products and certifications. Offers rental of bed, terry, and staff linens with complimentary replacement of damaged items and controlled washing procedures that preserve cotton fibers.
- Senior and Nursing Home Textile Services Specialized textile services for elderly care facilities including disinfecting washing procedures for resident safety. Covers washing of customer-owned textiles and full rental textile equipment, with modern scanning technology for item identification and tracking to ensure reliable return of personal resident clothing.
- Professional and Protective Clothing Service Rental and maintenance of professional and protective workwear for trades, industry, and emergency services. Workwear meets highest requirements for protective functions including welding, flame, chemical, high-visibility, and weather protection, with professional care ensuring protective functions are maintained.
- Rental Laundry (Mietwäsche) Complete rental textile service providing bed, terry, table, and kitchen linens on a subscription rental basis. Eliminates purchase and storage costs with complimentary replacement of damaged textiles, ensuring first-choice quality items delivered on regular exchange cycles.
- Operating Room Laundry Service (OP-Wäscheservice) Specialized service ensuring infection safety, functionality, profitability, and handling simplification for surgical draping systems used in operating rooms. Targets hospitals and surgical centers requiring validated sterile textile processing.
- Textile Management Outsourcing Outsourcing partnership for textile management that eliminates capital investment in textile purchases, storage equipment, transport equipment, and administration staffing costs. Converts fixed textile costs to variable monthly rental fees for the customer.
- Quality Assurance and Management Comprehensive quality management with certified processes, internal monitoring, and external control through independent research centers. Includes textile consulting from selection to logistics management, with textile controlling to extend lifespan and optimize logistics efficiency.
Quantifiable outcome
- CO2 footprint reduced by 7.5% annually through logistics optimization and process modernization
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use Lavatio
Customer profileNamed customers7 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
Lavatio technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature5 records
Lavatio partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Two partnerships are on record, tiered supporting and core.
- KannegiessersupportingKannegiesser equipped LangMar Group (now Allendorfer Mietwäsche-Service) with a modern machine park. The partnership ensures Lavatio facilities have state-of-the-art laundry equipment for reliable operations.
- LangMar GroupcoreLavatio's Allendorfer Mietwäsche-Service acquired the business operations of LangMar Group, which originated from Wäscherei Triebe (3rd generation family business). Approximately 70 employees processing 16 tonnes daily.
Scale indicators7 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Lavatio competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Elis SA: Elis is Europe's largest textile services and hygiene provider, offering flat linen, workwear, and facility hygiene solutions across 30+ countries including Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Lavatio is effectively a regional roll-up competing in the same downstream verticals but at a fraction of Elis's footprint and scale.
- Rentokil Initial: Rentokil Initial is a global hygiene services group (incorporating the legacy Initial/Berendsen textile business) offering workwear, flat linen and hygiene solutions across multiple European countries. It competes with Lavatio in DACH healthcare and hospitality textile services as part of a much broader facility services portfolio.
Direct peers
- CWS International: CWS (formerly CWS-Boco) is a leading European provider of rental workwear, flat linen, washroom hygiene and mat services headquartered in Germany, with operations across the DACH region. CWS competes head-on with Lavatio for the same hotel, healthcare and industrial customers with a similar rental-plus-service model.
- MEWA Textil-Service: MEWA is a family-owned German industrial laundry and workwear rental specialist with pan-European operations, serving industry, trade and healthcare customers. MEWA is one of Lavatio's closest direct competitors on workwear rental and industrial protective clothing in Germany.
- Bardusch Gruppe: Bardusch is a German-owned industrial laundry group providing textile rental, workwear and mat services to industrial, commercial and healthcare customers across the DACH region. Bardusch overlaps directly with Lavatio's Mietwäsche, workwear and protective clothing offerings.
- DLS Vermietung und Service GmbH: DLS is a German textile rental and workwear services provider serving hotels, gastronomy, industry and trade customers. As a regional German Mietwäsche operator it directly competes with Lavatio's Kruppert, Indlekofer and Colonia subsidiaries in adjacent DACH geographies.
- Kreis GmbH (Kreis Industrial Laundry): Kreis is a German industrial laundry providing flat linen, workwear and protective clothing rental services to hotels, healthcare and industrial clients. It is a relevant domestic comparable to Lavatio in terms of service mix and target verticals, particularly in western Germany.
Regional players
- Geiger Textil-Service: Geiger Textil-Service is an Austrian family-run industrial laundry and textile rental provider focused on hospitality and gastronomy customers. With Lavatio's December 2025 acquisition of Alpenland extending into Austria, Geiger represents the closest Austrian regional peer in the same hospitality-linen niche.
- WäscheWelt GmbH (textil pflege): WäscheWelt / regional Mittelstand laundries operate commercial laundry and textile rental services for hotels and healthcare customers across German-speaking markets. They represent the long tail of regional operators that Lavatio's roll-up strategy targets and competes with daily.
Others
- Berendsen (legacy, now Elis): Berendsen was a European textile services specialist serving healthcare, hospitality and industry with linen and workwear rental across multiple countries. Now part of Elis, its historical European footprint and customer mix make it a directly relevant reference point for how scaled roll-ups in DACH industrial laundry are valued and benchmarked.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat3 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Lavatio social profiles
Digital presenceLavatio compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance1 record
Lavatio financial estimates
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Valuation estimate
Lavatio leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles5 records
Lavatio subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries10 records
Lavatio funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Lavatio M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Lavatio
What does Lavatio do?
Lavatio Gruppe is a textile services group that rents and launders commercial textiles on a subscription basis for B2B customers in the DACH region. The company supplies and processes bed, bath, table, and kitchen linens, workwear, and protective clothing for hotels, restaurants, healthcare facilities, nursing homes, and industrial clients, converting customers' fixed textile costs into variable monthly rental fees while providing pickup, washing, and delivery logistics.
Is Lavatio a public or private company?
Lavatio is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.
When was Lavatio founded?
Lavatio was founded in 2019. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Lavatio based?
Lavatio is headquartered in Lviv, Ukraine, in the Europe region.
How does Lavatio make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Textile Rental (Mietwäsche) is the primary driver. The others are laundry/Processing Services, professional Workwear Rental and OP Textile Service.
Who are Lavatio's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Elis SA and Rentokil Initial. Direct peers are CWS International, MEWA Textil-Service, Bardusch Gruppe, DLS Vermietung und Service GmbH and Kreis GmbH (Kreis Industrial Laundry). Regional players are Geiger Textil-Service and WäscheWelt GmbH (textil pflege). Berendsen (legacy, now Elis) is listed as an others.
Does Lavatio have an API?
No public API is recorded for Lavatio.
What industry is Lavatio in?
Lavatio's product category is Commercial Textile Rental and Laundry Services. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HSAJAEAB, Hospitality (Hotel/Resort) Linen Laundry, with a secondary code of HSAJAMAH, Bed & Bath Linen Service (Sheets, Pillowcases, Bath Mats). Its NAICS code is 812332.