Marine Rotary Ironers

Widths from 985 to 2759 mm and the deck footprint

The Professional rotary ironers on this page run from 985 mm to 2759 mm wide, with net weights between 39 kg and 458 kg. That range covers everything from a compact unit that can sit in a small crew laundry to long machines for a full hotel laundry. All are rotary ironers, so the decision is essentially about how much flatwork must be cleared per hour and where the machine can physically stand.
On vessels where every kilogram on the deck plan is argued over, that 39–458 kg spread is a structural input. A narrow 985 mm ironer can often be worked into an existing space with modest reinforcement, whereas a 2759 mm unit calls for early involvement of the naval architect around floor loading and access routes.

Throughput, heating load and process planning

Electrical power on the Professional series runs from 3.2 kW up to 23.5 kW, and those numbers map directly into how many sheets per watch the laundry can clear. The small 160 mm‑roller HM 16-80 D delivers 13 kg of linen per hour at 20% residual moisture; at the other end of the range, PRI 421 with a 365 mm roller reaches 113 kg per hour at 25% residual moisture. They are published figures at a stated residual moisture, so the washer-extractors upstream decide how close to them a laundry actually gets.
That power draw is also pure heat into the laundry. Miele publishes the heat dissipated into the room for each model, and on a closed laundry deck that figure feeds straight into HVAC sizing. A 3.2 kW unit eases into an existing air volume; a bank of 20 kW‑class ironers needs extraction and supply planned from the outset so the room does not run hot in port or in warm climates.

Supply voltages and shipboard integration

Every ironer here is electric and available for both 50 Hz and 60 Hz supplies, which takes away the usual frequency concern when equipment moves between yards or works on shore and ship power. Across the Professional series, named supply voltages include 220–240 V and 230 V on smaller units, and 400 V, 440 V and 450 V on the larger models. Most of the higher-throughput machines sit at 400 V, 440 V or 450 V.
In practice that lets a designer keep the rotary ironers on the same board as other heavy laundry consumers rather than dropping transformers into the line. For refits, the presence of 440 V and 450 V variants in the range is often the detail that decides whether an older laundry can be upgraded without major changes to the ship’s electrical backbone.

Professional series options for marine and offshore work

All 24 rotary ironers here sit in Miele’s Professional series and are explicitly tagged Marine approved and Offshore specified. Within that, roughly half of the models are flagged Energy management ready, so they can participate where a vessel is already using load-shedding or peak-limiting systems on hotel services. Ten of the Professional ironers are Payment system ready, which matters on ferries, offshore accommodation and mixed-use vessels where the laundry is run as a charged service for concessionaires or crew.
Only one Professional ironer in this group carries a Steam function flag. That narrows the field quickly for operators who want to integrate steam into the finishing process from an existing boiler plant, and it is a point to verify early because the rest of the range is straight electric heating.

When to look at Washing Machines or Tumble Dryers instead

These rotary ironers are finishing equipment for flatwork: bed linen, table linen and similar items that can be fed across a roller. They do not wash or dry; they assume the flatwork is already at a controlled residual moisture when it reaches the infeed. Where the main issue on board is getting mixed garments, workwear or towelling clean and dry, the heavy lifting will sit in the Washing Machines and Tumble Dryers categories, with rotary ironers specified only once that upstream capacity is in place.
On small yachts or vessels where space is limited to a single column of equipment, Washer-Dryer Stacks may give more day-to-day utility than dedicating footprint and electrical capacity to a rotary ironer that will only run intermittently.