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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…
Read MoreE- 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…
Read MoreUsage 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…
Read MoreProfessional 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…
Read MoreBusiness case: Efficient logistics are imperative for succes in PTC
Due to the shirt business, the number of pieces processed in PTC plants has increased substantially. This calls for innovative solutions to manage the workflow and most of all to avoid the search for misplaced garments. The essential requirement is the identification of the garments by bar code. Items tagged with bar code tickets can…
Read MoreResource 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…
Read MoreBosatex; 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreCare 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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