Markus Stein Your laundry specialist

Who am I?
My core competence is in water and energy conservation (“W&E”) for laundries. For years, I have been helping businesses across Europe to work more efficiently and sustainably. My focus is on customized solutions that reduce your costs and protect the environment. If you are satisfied, so am I. Contact me for innovative energy concepts. In addition to W&E concepts, I also offer general laundry training for your employees, as well as consulting for your company.
Markus Stein, with 32 years of professional experience (Henkel Düsseldorf and Ecolab Deutschland GmbH Monheim) in sales, management, development of the “W&E” water and energy management department, as well as team leadership “water and energy” throughout Europe.
I have designed (layout), installed and commissioned many water and energy concepts in Germany, Europe and also overseas, and checked their savings.
In the further development of devices for savings (filtration systems for laundry process water, heat exchangers for waste water, heat exchangers for the exhaust air from dryers, mangles and Finnish), I have incorporated “practical tips” from my daily work “on site” into the layout of the systems.
“Steamfree Washing” (without a boiler house) is the goal and should become the standard. With this in mind, I am always open to new ideas that I would like to incorporate into my W&E recovery layouts.
My goals are holistic approaches to cost savings, CO2 reduction, environmental relief, increasing your competitiveness and a generally environmentally conscious use of our limited resources “water and energy”.
As part of my many years of experience in the laundry industry, I have regularly held training courses for laundry employees that are important and should be refreshed again and again. Topics included, for example, detergent ingredients, textile science, machine science, hygiene, water recovery in laundries, energy recovery in laundries and environmental protection. Please feel free to contact me about other topics as well. Training can take place online or as a face-to-face event.
In addition to training your employees, I would like to make my knowledge available to you in the form of a consultation. How can you save money most effectively, what is your starting point in terms of your water and energy consumption, how do your costs/consumption compare to other laundries, which solutions make sense for you, what do they cost and how much do these solutions achieve? Consultations for your laundry can take place online, but better as a face-to-face event.
My english isn't perfect, but usually enough to talk about laundry business.

Curriculum vitae
2025
Your laundry specialist
EDU-stein Dipl. Ing. Agr.
Self-employed consulting, independent laundry engineer
2022-2024
Ecolab Germany GmbH
early retirement
2013-2022
Ecolab Germany GmbH
Team Leader Project Management W&E (Water and Energy) for Europe
2009
Ecolab Germany GmbH
Project Manager W&E (Water and Energy) for Europe
2005
Ecolab Germany GmbH
SAT (Service Application Team) Application Technology Specialist
2002
Ecolab Germany GmbH
Country Program Sales Manager
1998
Ecolab Germany GmbH
Regional Key Account Manager
1998
Ecolab Germany GmbH
Training as Hygiene Inspector Laundry Hohensteiner Institute
1994
Henkel Ecolab Germany GmbH
Laundry technician for Henkel Düsseldorf
1990
Henkel KGaA Düsseldorf
Specialist consultant for laundry at Henkel Düsseldorf
1983-1990
University of Bonn
Degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn
1982-1983
military period
1981
Karthause High School
high school diploma