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Energy crisis: The TSA needs YOU to be part of the laundry lobby
UK
The Textile Services Association (TSA) is asking laundries to support its lobbying drive over energy costs support by writing to their MP. If the energy support ends in March, commercial laundries are in for a very rough ride, says the Association. The TSA is lobbying the Government to continue to provide support after March, and it is calling on commercial laundry owners and executives to write to their local MPs to really push the message home.
TRSA health conference pulls in 150 delegates
NORTH AMERICA
Trends, opportunities and challenges were key focuses for more than 150 operator and supplier partner executives serving the healthcare market sector who attended TRSA’s 11th Annual Healthcare Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona The two-day conference featured a full day of industry-specific education followed by a tour of Emerald Textiles’ 65,000-square-foot plant in nearby Phoenix.
BC SoftWear enters exclusive partnership in Qatar
UK/MIDDLE EAST
Leading hotel and spa textiles supplier, BC SoftWear, has entered a new partnership with Iris Be You Beauty Trading in Qatar. Iris Be You is a distribution company that is committed to becoming the leading supplier serving the Qatari beauty salon industry. Already working with more than 600 beauty salons and retail shops in Qatar, Iris Be You distributes through a variety of channels and has a solid sales team with a strong background in the beauty industry.
ETSA goes Politico with its circularity message
INTERNATIONAL
The European Textile Services Association (ETSA) has seen its work to raise the profile of the industry as a model of the circular economy featured on the Politico website, bringing the established circular ethos of the industry to a wide and politically aware international audience. The Association sponsored the article which identifies the pillars of the textile care circular economy as longevity of products, localism in the supply chain, repair services, reuse options and resource optimisation. As the co-authors of the piece say: “it’s all part of the textile services sector’s DNA.”
Sustainable developments for a positive impact
Girbau is setting the benchmark in creating systems with a positive impact on people and the planet
Optimistic outlook from Europe’s biggest player
It may not be exactly what one might expect in these troubled times, writes Eugene Gerden, but he finds there is, despite all the challenges, a mood of cautious optimism permeating the German market
Bots and bytes dominate in Milan
Robotics and automation were very much the focus of the show this year along with digitisation in all its many forms and helpful impacts
Working flat out
Ironers made a big impression at EXPODetergo last month. Kathy Bowry takes a look at some that were there, and some that weren’t
Excellence abounds at Milan’s best practice showcase
The standard for the Cinet Global Best Practices Awards 2022 was sky-high, making the jury’s job very difficult indeed
Energy efficiency: Urgent actions to address sky high costs
It is crunch time on the energy front, says Richard Neale of LTC Worldwide, but there are strategies laundries can follow to make things better