TC (Retail Textile Cleaning)
Orange Sky Laundry; World’s first mobile service for the homeless (Australia)
Market Areas Retail Orange Sky Laundry is not just a laundry. It’s a project. First: it’s a mobile laundry service in Australia, started in 2014 by two young entrepreneurs, Lucas Patchett and Nicholas Marchesi. These two young men have a clear vision and an according mission statement: To provide a vehicle for conversations, opportunities and…
Read MoreKarl Chehade Dry Cleaning Pty Ltd.; One of a kind sustainable company in Australia (Australia)
Market Areas B2B, B2C Karl Chehade Dry Cleaning (KCDC) has a strong focus on sustainability which makes them unique in the Australian market. Furthermore, they were a pioneer in the use of Greenearth cleaning processes in the Australian DC industry. Obviously, the company is putting a great amount of effort into being a sustainable company,…
Read MoreTintorería Calasanz; Quality drycleaning since 1970 (Argentina)
Market Areas Retail To describe Tintorería Calasanz in one word; experts. The company first opened its doors in February 1970, as one of the pioneers in the drycleaning profession. With the years came the experience and the expertise, leading to continuous adaptation and improvement of the drycleaning services offered. For almost half a century now…
Read MoreBelaroussi Pressing; Pioneers in Algeria with loyalty card (Algeria)
Market Areas Retail It’s a wonderful picture in black and white of two men, one of them leaning against the doorpost of the shop, the other – clearly a bit younger – leaning against the front of a small van. Above the door and the shop window a big sign reveals the sort of business:…
Read MoreState of the Art markets & future directions of PTC; an FTN study
Introduction A roadmap for textile services, looking forward to the year of 2030. That sounds like a view into a world unknown and utterly unexplored, however we are just a few years away from it. In the modern age of technology we currently live in, a period of fifteen years is merely a blink of…
Read MoreAdvanced services in textile care; A European market perspective
Market dynamics have increased considerably over the last decade. Especially implementation of advanced communication and information technologies is changing lifestyles of people. A higher level of personal service is required. This changes the value proposition in the supply chain. This will mean that the traditional services, like drycleaners focusing on ‘P-labelled’ products will have a…
Read MoreHaute Couture cleaning as a ‘new concept’; a case study from Japan
My name is Mr. Masashi Shimenoki. I have been involved with textile evaluation and quality of dry cleaning for over 40 years. From 1950 until 1992 Japan’s dry cleaning industry was the most successful in the world. In 1992 the business revenue reached 820 billion yen. I will talk about the process that made it such…
Read MoreCINET study: Energy consumption of industrial laundry is up to 3 times lower than domestic laundering process
In the development of new processes and equipment, productivity and energy efficiency is the key issue. This is logical because labour and energy are the main cost drivers for an industrial laundry. Productivity refers to the produced items in a certain timeframe and the effort needed for that production. A large volume is beneficial for…
Read MoreEnabling technologies for innovative textile cleaning
Daily life is taking place in an online world. Communication by face-to-face contact is negligible compared to the communication by phone, e-mail and social networks. These online communications are also getting more and more important for industries. Online ordering, billing and delivering are already becoming common habits. In the future sophisticated technologies and innovative concepts…
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