Emerald Expands Its Healthcare Textiles Service

Emerald Textiles has become the largest commercial healthcare linen and laundry service provider in the Western United States thanks to its recent acquisition of the West Coast assets of Angelica Corporation, a national healthcare linen service provider. The transaction includes nine facilities and allows Emerald to expand into the Phoenix and Las Vegas markets and strengthen its footprint in both Northern and Southern California. 

Service to hospitals for patient care providing hygienically clean reusable scrubs, packs and isolation gowns is of the utmost importance, especially with the heightened times surrounding infection prevention. Emerald has invested $35 million in capital since 2018 in equipment, technology, customer care services, leading in exceptional quality of care and laundry services for the healthcare market and further expanding its footprint as the largest commercial healthcare textiles provider in the Western United States. 

“We are excited to build out our network of facilities with the acquisition of Angelica’s West Coast assets,” says Andy Kratky, chief executive officer of Emerald, noting the new locations from Angelica complement the company’s existing six facilities in California, Nevada, and Utah. “This acquisition represents a continuation of our effort to build a world-class healthcare linen provider that can serve the overall needs of the West Coast market, where our current and future customers continue to expand and benefit from our support.” 

Emerald Textiles, a portfolio company of Los Angeles-based private investment firm Pacific Avenue Capital Partners, LLC, was created through the combination of Emerald Textiles and Encore Textile Services in July 2018. Today, Emerald Textiles is the owner and operator of 15 plant facilities and two service depots with the unique ability to service more than 560 million pounds of linen across a well-invested footprint in California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. Facilities include San Diego, Riverside, Los Angeles, Colton, Pomona, Orange, San Fernando, Livingston, Livermore, Turlock, Sacramento, Fresno and Pittsburg, all in California, as well as Reno and Las Vegas in Nevada, Phoenix in Arizona, and St. George in Utah.