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accredited companies, of which there are less
than 150 throughout North America.
TODAY & TOMORROW
At present, Lake Superior Laundry operates
two, identically designed plants that encom-
pass 25,000 square-feet, with one in Supe-
rior, Wisconsin, and the other in Pine City,
Minnesota. The company annually processes
more than 13 million pounds of laundry for
health care operations throughout Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota. And though Blaufuss
anticipates opening another plant in Eastern
Wisconsin, he has no plans to move beyond
these markets, nor schemes of national ex-
pansion. “We will stay in the Midwest where
we understand the world,” says Blaufuss. “We
had a chance a few years ago, to grow big and
go in other states, but that doesn’t interest
me. We want to be rural America.”
Lake Superior Laundry currently employs
a little more than 100 people, and Blaufuss
says his goal has always been to help job seek-
ers connect with work opportunities right
within their respective community, instead
of having to make the long commute to the