E-Industrial Laundry: For Safe & Sustainable Textile Service Operation

What is E-Learning   Industrial laundry is an practical and easily accessible education material especially for the Textile Service industry. E-Industrial Laundry’s training modules are developed for E-learning and blended learning (a combination of e-learning and classical training with the help of a teacher). E-learning provides students with an easy, accessible and flexible way of…

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E- Dryclean: The international standard of best practices in sustainable processing

What is E-DryClean?   E-DryClean is an international initiative to create practical and easily accessible education material especially for the European Dry-Cleaning industry. By doing so this sets an international standard for best practices in sustainable processing in professional textile care companies. E-DryClean’s training modules are developeded for E-learning and blended learning (a combination of…

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Usage behaviour and related energy consumption of European consumers for washing and drying

Angelika Schmitz & Rainer Stamminger Received: 12 March 2013 /Accepted: 17 May 2014 /Published online: 1 June 2014 # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Abstract Laundry washing has been extensively studied; laundry drying has been much less investigated. Nevertheless, there are indications that the drying process takes considerably more energy than the washing process. It…

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Professional Textile Care: All trends in the field of PPE and workwear

Cinet mission statement   To be a well structured, strong and reputed international umbrella organisation for the global professional textile care cleaning, laundry and textile service industry to consumer and business-to-business applications.   A+A Congress Düsseldorf: all trends in the field of PPE and workwear   Mass customization and high tech in workwear signify opportunities…

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Resource efficiency in dry cleaning and laundry companies

Industrial laundries as well as dry cleaning companies developed a sense of urgency for the relevance of energy and resource consumption. This is why the Swiss Federation of Textile Care started a project to develop a tool to support small and medium size enterprises in their challenge to save resources, protect the environment and last…

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Bosatex; cleaning soil polution in the Netherlands

In the past there was hardly any knowledge about environmental consequences concerning the storage, use, and removal of PERC and TRI. Since the seventies, the development of a greater environmental awareness in the world kept pace with getting a better understanding about the prevention of riskscaused by using these chemicals. Parallel to this process ran…

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The International Standard Best Practices in safe & sustainable professional textile cleaning

Introduction The changing market demands from the professional textile cleaning require a new approach. Professional textile care is about customer convenience and fit to lifestyle. Clients want to experience ease and comfort which support their lifestyle. Quality of cleaning and a sustainable performance are the basic requirements of today. How the professional textile care industry…

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Care labels in textile cleaning

This book describes the best practice textile care processes to: • Clean and refinish textile articles • Do this without causing damage to garment, people or environment • Enable the consumer to re-use the garment/article By using the optimised processes for textile cleaning, the results will be a more energy efficient, safe and environmentally friendly…

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