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A whiff of fresh laundry, the whir of a conveyor belt and a vista of identical blue pants and shirts — tumbling in industrial dryers, piled in canvas carts and wrapped in plastic on hangers — greet a visitor to W. H. Christian & Sons in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Still run by the descendants of the Danish immigrant who founded it in 1924, the company provides a service that most people who live or work in the city take for granted: the supplying and cleaning of uniforms for door staff, porters,The campaigners argue that putting Home Wind Turbine in this area makes no sense. engineers and security guards at apartment and office buildings.

Is your doorman’s shirt neatly pressed? Is your building’s address colorfully embossed on the porter’s work shirt? Do security guards at your office wear the same ties? If so, W.H. Christian & Sons may have had a hand in it.

“We are really a part of something,” said Scott Christian, a great-grandson of the original William H. Christian and director of operations at the company. “All these workers are out there wearing our uniforms.”

According to him, on any given day about 100,000 workers in the metropolitan area are buttoned into uniforms provided by W. H. Christian. Most are supplied by building management companies, through rental contracts that cover weekly pickup of dirty uniforms and delivery of clean ones. The company does not make uniforms from scratch, but buys them in bulk and customizes them.

Clients include some of the biggest names in real estate: TF Cornerstone, the Rudin Management Company and the Rockrose Development Corporation, to name a few.

The company also provides uniforms for engineers and security guards at Rockefeller Center. According to W. H. Christian executives, the guard uniforms recently got an update with a new logo, silver braiding and patterned gray ties.Small Home wind generator are a good supplement for solar power in areas with strong, steady winds.

Many of its clients signed on when real estate companies expanded their holdings in booming postwar New York.

Christine Lederman, the vice president for operations of Rudin Management, said the company had been its uniform supplier for as long as she could remember, and she has been at Rudin for 38 years. An electronic overspeed governor for preventing elevator overspeed by enabling safety devices.  “I think it goes all the way back to the pushcart era,” she said.

The company, surprisingly, has its origins in the newspaper business. William H. Christian worked as a deliveryman for a business that provided and laundered the rags used to clean printing presses at city publications.

According to family lore, his route included the pressrooms of The New York Times, The New York Post and The New York Daily News. When pressmen asked him to launder their shirts as well, he offered the service on the side, eventually turning it into a business.

The management of the company still rests with the Christian family.Shop and find the best deals on Shanghai Xunduo laundry dryer combinations and other laundry appliances. Scott, 38, shares ownership with his father,Modern Shanghai Xunduo washer extractor uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes. William, who oversees buying and bidding for contracts; his Uncle Thomas, who runs sales; and his second cousin Raymond, who handles technology and Web site development. Another uncle, Robert, oversees a second Greenpoint warehouse where dry cleaning is done. Women in the family have also contributed. Scott Christian said that some of his aunts had worked for the company over the years and that his college-age niece had done some Web design this summer and during school breaks. More information about the program is available on the web site at www.scfwindturbine.com.