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WCL moves to motivate in February
UK
Save the date! The Worshipful Company of Launderers (WCL), supported by the Oliver Family Education Trust, is hosting a leadership conference on Tuesday, 13 February 2024 at Glaziers/Launderers Hall in the City of London. As Mahatma Gandhi said: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
OBITUARY: Roger McMillan, Colmac Industries
USA
Roger Kenneth McMillan, who ran the family business Colmac Industries, known for its garment finishing equipment, between 1974 and 2002, died on 28 December, 2023, in Spokane, Washington. He also built the second Colmac business, Colmac Coil Manufacturing, one of the world’s leading manufacturers in the new and replacement coil markets.
Q&A with Charlie Robards
Charlie Robards, business development manager at Miele Professional
TSA: ‘Pasha’nate about reducing lost and damaged linen
Meet Pasha the Pillowcase, a TSA conscript fighting the war against lost, stolen and damaged linen
Frustrated by fusibles
Last year in May’s ‘What Went Wrong’ we took a look at some interlining problems that developed during cleaning and which in our view were not in the main attributable to mishandling by cleaners. The faults we covered are without doubt responsible for the majority of interlining faults received by cleaners; but, while manufacturers and customers remain responsible for around 70% of interlining issues, there are still some areas where the cleaner can be to blame.
Firefighters’ workwear – a vital new market for both contract and rental?
Richard Neale of LTC Worldwide revisits a subject of concern – the historically high incidence in cancer among firefighters and looks at how launderers can help to slash fatalities
Sustaining momentum towards a Net ZERO textile care industry
LCN looks back over the past 12 months at innovations and trends in energy savings for laundries
Restoration of water damaged textiles
LCN received a reader enquiry regarding restoration of a number of garments damaged in a major water leakage in a domestic property. Roger Cawood and Richard Neale explain the skills needed to undertake restoration
Wet response to wetcleaning enquiry
It seems the well of knowledge on cleaning methods is drying up, along with some drycleaners’ customer facing skills being sadly wanting, as an unimpressed Howard Bradley finds out – and not with any great surprise
Diversity is the spice of life
A diverse programme of presentations gave this year’s TSA Autumn Conference plenty of impetus, while news of the industry’s 90% recovery to pre-Covid levels injected much-needed optimism