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Plant Design Awards: Special Honors, Outstanding New Build: Comet Cleaners

LUBBOCK, Texas — The newest location from Texas-based Comet Cleaners Franchise Group can be found in a fast-growing part of Lubbock. The clean, modern store, which covers 3,500 square feet, features two drive-thru lanes with a canopy. Friendly, professional staff greet customers with bottled water.

Comet Cleaners offers dry cleaning and laundry services, alterations, and wedding gown preservation, as well as cleaning of household items and drapes. Same-day service is available until 2 p.m. on weekdays.

The production area—customers can see the plant from the front counter—includes a Union dry cleaning machine, Wascomat laundry equipment, and Unipress and Forenta finishing and tensioning equipment. Boiler room equipment is by Lattner Boiler. The plant utilizes DCCS workstations.

Comet employs 13 full-time-equivalent workers and generates more than $10,000 in weekly sales.

Owner Ron Caffey designed the plant layout, Mike Lowe was architect, and Gulf States Laundry Machinery was the project’s equipment distributor.

Comet Cleaners exterior

Comet Cleaners owner Ron Caffey designed the Lubbock plant, and Mike Lowe was architect. (Photos supplied by Comet Cleaners Franchise Group)

Comet Cleaners lobby

Customers can see the plant from the front counter.

Comet Cleaners equipment

A Union dry cleaning machine and Unipress finishing equipment await the next order.

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