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Staff Writer
Compact ironers big up smaller businesses
Even though an OPL can be any size it wants to be, I guess in this piece we are looking at compact systems. So what is available now, pre Texcare 2024?
Mom and Pop shops
For Howard Bradley, the sixties weren’t all about the Mamas and the Papas but more about a small family drycleaning business making its way
Spot cleaning: Beware of this instruction
Garments with aftercare labels that dictate spot cleaning have been around for many years and it is understood that this type of cleaning instruction is now on the increase in the USA. If items are accepted for stain removal they require the most careful and detailed assessment before proceeding. As this type of aftercare instruction is mainly to be found on high and very high value items, any potential problems should be fully discussed with the customer at reception and if necessary an ‘Owner’s Risk’ agreement completed and signed by the customer before going ahead.
Assured disinfection
Roger Cawood and Richard Neale look at how cleaners can assure their healthcare/residential facilities customers – and others – of assured disinfection
Decontamination in a cleanroom
Richard Neale of LTC Worldwide addresses the finicky processes involved in ensuring clean rooms are exactly how they should be – totally sterile
AI = logic and discipline
According to Steen Søgaard, in all production you find three horizontal layers, driven by very different logic and disciplines, Here’s how it all fits together
Custom-built, cascading dryer system
Lavatec’s cascading dryer system surges forward with large-scale improved efficiencies agt a German laundry
Stable demand steers Scandinavian textile care sector onward
Experts agree that Scandinavia is prime territory for growth, writes Eugene Gerden
ETSA Congress: EU and global elections, geopolitics and world economy
ETSA’s 30th anniversary Congress took place in Prague at a time of political uncertainty in Europe – and globally. Likely outcomes for textile care businesses going forward were a strong part of the agenda
