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Texcare Forum Bordeaux
FRANCE
The French textile care industry met for the third time at a Texcare Forum on 28 March. the third Texcare Forum France took place, at the Palais de la Bourse, Bordeaux. The event gathered textile care professionals from the south-west region: drycleaners, laundries, launderettes, and so on, as well as national suppliers of products and services.
Cinet global awards scheme is well under way
INTERNATIONAL
For Professional Textile Care (PTC) operations, quality, service, digitisation, innovation and last, but not least, sustainability are the key issues to meeting customer demands. By stimulating the best practices approach, CINET intends to contribute to a modern and sustainable textile care sector. Changing customer demands require new services and business models. An upgraded quality and sustainability, well-trained human resource, comfort and high-tech functionalities profiled by professional marketing and communication are important aspects to meet these changing demands.
GINETEX launches multilingual care label app
INTERNATIONAL
GINETEX, the International Association for Textile Care Labelling – has developed an app named ‘My care label’ to enable end users and newcomers to professional textile care to more easily decipher care labels on garments and other textiles.
Laundryheap extends contract with UnderTheDoormat
UK
On-demand laundry and drycleaning platform Laundryheap has announced an extension to their partnership with UnderTheDoormat, a luxury home accommodation service that provides modern living for guests seeking hotel-quality in the comfort of a home. The upgraded service will refine the hassle-free and hotel-standard experience provided to UnderTheDoormat guests since 2014, and promises greater customer satisfaction during short-term and extended stays.
TSA embarks on national awareness raising road trip
UK
The Textile Services Association (TSA) is undertaking a tour of the United Kingdom in June and July to spread word of the work it does, as well as providing an unparalleled networking opportunity for commercial laundries. The pandemic and its ongoing consequences have been tough for commercial laundries. They had to navigate a business landscape where many of the regular customers they relied on shut down or greatly reduced their requirements for cleaning textile products.
Wolf Laundry announces record year of results
UK
Barnsley-based Wolf Laundry, which supplies commercial laundry and warewashing equipment across the UK, has announced an impressive year of financial results including a 204% profit increase. It delivered another year of revenue growth in its last financial year ending 31 December, with turnover growing to £7.2m, up 64% from £4.4m the previous year. EBIT increased to £1.4m from £460,000 in 2020.
The transfer deal
Transfers are a super-effective way to professionally and permanently mark ownership of items from uniforms through personal wear to bed linen and towels, as Innotex Transfers explains
Getting into hot-ish water
For commercial laundries it is not all about generating the hottest water possible, but being able to consistently generate it at the right temperature, and in a sustainable manner. Chris Goggin of Rinnai looks at modern, accessible technology that can achieve this in the face of rising gas prices
Let’s get trollied
As the industry gets moving again maybe it is time to review how you keep the wheels turning at top efficiency on the factory floor
Part 1: Friend or foe?
In the first of a two-part report, Brian Pearce make sense of the many solvents available to drycleaners and whether they actually deserve the hype given to some and the demonisation of others, notably Perc