Quintess International Group was established as a spin-off from a Canadian Distribution Group, established in 1968, that marketed large scale textile laundry systems and a new innovative stone-washing process during the 1980s in Canada, USA and many countries internationally. The systems included European and American manufactured, large capacity, computer-controlled, hands-off, washing, dyeing, and drying systems, flatwork feeders, folders, ironers, stacker/conveyor systems, materials handling systems, sorting and conveyor systems for garments and textile linens.
The Canadian distributors led the market throughout Canada during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and expanded through market growth and acquisition including the purchase of the Canadian distribution division of an American laundry and car wash systems manufacturer, and operated as exclusive distributor for 20 years of its coin-operated car-wash systems, coin-operated laundry systems and on-premise laundry machinery. Clients included companies in the mining, petroleum, hospitality, health-care and industrial laundry markets.
During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the Canadian distributors exclusively sold large-scale laundry sytems and supplied turn-key systems to hotels, hospitals, schools, centralized-laundries, correctional facilities and other institutions across Canada. During the 1980s, the distributor expanded its real estate holdings business and began a research and development program resulting with the invention of an environmental protection technology.
From coast to coast, customers included the Provincial Ministries of Health, Provincial Ministries of Long Term Care, Provincial Ministries of Correctional Services, centralized hospital laundries, hospital laundries, hotel laundries, commercial and industrial laundries and apparel manufacturers and contractors whilst also distributing disposable hand-washing systems and paper systems to chain restaurants, chain hotels, hospitals and institutional markets. Since the 1990s, the distributor divested its activities away from the Laundry and textile industry. It expanded it’s real estate operations and bolstered its environmental technology research and development activities for alternative solutions to waste land-filling and waste incineration.