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Cleaning healthcare workwear
The High Street cleaner is in an ideal position pick up on smaller healthcare/ veterinary contracts and/or steady repeat customer footfall. Richard Neale and Roger Cawood look at the possibilities
There’s still room for drycleaners
Hemant Zavery, business development manager at Cole & Wilson, gives his views on the current state of the drycleaning market
Artefacts and inspiration
Howard Bradley has been trawling the worldwide web for weird and wonderful textile care-inspired goodies
Fresh choice, best choice
As we enter spring, Richard Brown from Industrial Laundry Equipment looks at the current marketplace and how ILE is finding the changing climate
WCL looks at future provision of energy
The Future of Energy seminar presented by the Worshipful Company of Launderers in London at the tail end of February saw expert speakers discuss the future provision of energy, concentrating on alternative sources to fossil fuels that can save energy, and even generate additional income for businesses.
Free wheeling designs
It is easy to overlook the amount of work and technical expertise that goes into designing and manufacturing those essential workhorses in any laundry, cages and trollies. LCN finds out more
A poem in time and space
Tate Modern is always worth a visit and it was a rare treat to experience Cecilia Vicuna’s vast yet ethereal textile artwork
Out and about with WCL
Becoming a Freeman of a Livery Company is generally the first step in a Livery career, writes Sarah Lancaster, Master of The Worshipful Company of Launderers.
Decontamination of hospitality textiles
It is not just healthcare workwear that needs to adhere to strict decontamination standards, writes Richard Neale of LTC Worldwide, as he looks at strategies for hospitality laundries to follow
Curry: Understanding the problem
Last month, in the first of four articles, we looked at the removal of heat set blood. Now we move on to curry and also to discuss the removal of oil which can be a real problem on polyester and some cotton fabrics