About us

Why LCNi is the first choice for leading textile care professionals

Laundry and Cleaning News International has been publishing since 1885* and is the leading publication globally for the textile care industry with news, comment and analysis plus market, product and technical features and articles about legislation, best practice and business management.

LCNi covers all sectors of the industry  –  laundry, textile rental, healthcare, hospitality and industrial, retail drycleaning as well as the OPL, MHO and launderette sectors. 

LCNi publishes six hard copy issues each year with. In addition, we produce special issues for international exhibitions. The journal is subscription-based, and subscribers receive editions, exhibition specials and a yearbook listing products and services, suppliers’ names and addresses, and other useful details.

*LCNi first published as Laundry Journal in 1885 and changed the title over the years to Power Laundry before finally settling on Laundry and Cleaning News to represent all sectors of textile care.

Our regular in-depth features

  • Material Solutions, by LTC Worldwide’s Richard Neale will target issues concerning linen rental businesses as well as OPL in healthcare and hospitality, enabling best practice in linen management across the board. For 2025 we have expanded Material Solutions to include a practical solution to a reader’s enquiry

  • What Went Wrong extends into the wetcleaning arena as well as drycleaning to help retail businesses identify and deal with problems and issues when processing textiles. In addition to finding solutions for What Went Wrong, Roger Cawood and Richard Neale take a reader’s problem and find a solution to it.
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  • Trade Secrets gives the lowdown and heads- up on specialist drycleaning in monthly training sessions by Roger Cawood
  • Howard’s Way will continue to entertain and divert as we draw on Howard Bradley’s long experience in retail drycleaning.

  • Our country Spotlight will focus on different textile care markets around the world.

As well as our popular regular features, LCN will also be ferreting out news, views and innovation around the industry when and where it happens.

The 2025 LCNi offering will also include Clean Cruising and Hotel OPL, finely targeting the cruise laundry and on-premises hotel and healthcare laundry markets as well as the annual buyers guide which is regularly updated online.