Without a single customer in 1990, Consolidated Linen Service or Hervey Bay Commercial Laundry as it was then known, was established to meet the growing needs of the local Hervey Bay area.  Neville & Morena Roberts persisted during the early years to expand customer, washing machine and dryer at a time.

Oldest son Adam and then Luke joined the frey.  Conversation each Sunday night at family dinners rarely strayed from washing more, washing faster and washing smarter.

With continued growth, CLS began servicing nearby regions and investments in larger and more efficient equipment was made.  By the Year 2000, CLS was the predominate laundry operator across the Wide Bay washing around 40 tonnes of linen each week.

In 2003, a major plant upgrade included the installation of a new Continuous Batch Washer and Dryer system and capacity increased to 100 tonnes.

In 2004, a further expansion was undertaken by merging with a Sunshine Coast based laundry called Crystal Linen Service.  The “CLS” moniker was alive and well.

The youngest and supposedly smartest brother Tom jumped on board with his brothers often reminding Tom that his intelligence was questionable considering the many other career opportunities he’d forsaken.  But the small of soap suds was too much to resist.

A few years later, another large plant upgrade doubled the capacity of the Hervey Bay laundry with a 2nd CBW added along with high-speed ironers and other automated equipment.  Up to 200 tonnes of linen was now being washed, dryed, ironed, folded and packed each week.

An expansion northwards resulted with the acquisition of a laundry plant in Gladstone in 2013 and shortly thereafter, a largescale Distribution Centre in Mackay.  The Gladstone laundry underwent an upgrade in 2017 to expand capacity, improve quality and offer greater supply redundancy.

The latest acquisition of Barrier Reef Linen Airlie Beach in 2020 added a third laundry plant with 100 tonnes of laundering capacity per week.  This near new plant was purpose-built for the local market and will further strengthen the ability of CLS to deliver linen services to a growing market.