Area company aims to reinvent how hospitality industry handles linens

Richard Ferrell, behind the company Pürlin, thinks the firm's sheet recycling process can help put more heads in beds at hotels.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 7:20 p.m. December 2, 2020
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Courtesy. Pürlin LLC President Richard Ferrell says Pürlin is launching with sheets and pillowcases, with duvet covers coming out in the second quarter of 2021. Bath linens could also be in the company’s future.
Courtesy. Pürlin LLC President Richard Ferrell says Pürlin is launching with sheets and pillowcases, with duvet covers coming out in the second quarter of 2021. Bath linens could also be in the company’s future.
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Several years ago, Sarasota-based hotelier Richard Ferrell attended a National Geographic conference on water. While watching a presentation, a slide with a single statistic stood out: it takes 2,800 gallons of water to make a queen-sized cotton sheet.

 

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