President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has visited the presentation of “Cotton Way” Company at Children’s Republican Clinical Hospital. The company’s solutions on rental of bedclothes and clothing for medical personnel were presented to Rustam Minnikhanov.

Cotton Way is one of the largest Russian companies dealing with rental and professional laundry of textile. Among company’s major customers is OAO “Russian railways”. Within the last nine months the company has been cooperating with Tatarstan medical institutions.

Types of bedclothes and professional clothing for medical institutions and a special machine for giving out outfits to personnel were presented to the Tatarstan President today.

Cotton Way Director General Aleksandr Utkin said that the company rendered services to the Republican Clinical Hospital and Children’s Republican Clinical Hospital. To do this, the company had modernized a factory for bedclothes laundry in a train shed at the Kazan railway station. State-of-the-art Italian equipment and technologies made the Kazan factory the most up-to-date in Russia.

Tatarstan’s Minister of health care Airat Farrakhov told that passing laundry services for outsourcing enabled hospitals to stop performing non-core activity and receive high-quality services. According to the minister, the company had acquired good reputation.

Cotton Way Director General Aleksandr Utkin informed that the company intended to develop its business in Tatarstan. To build a new factory, they need a guaranteed order. It can be the state order for servicing all Kazan medical institutions. Hotels, sports centers and social institutions can become company’s customers afterwards.

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov supported the idea of attracting third-party companies for servicing medical institutions and requested to consider the issue in detail.