Volume I: ‘Safe & Sustainable Processing in PTC’

Description

This volume describes the working methods in textile cleaning and textile service. It provides an extensive description of the International Standard Best Practices in Safe & Sustainable PTC processing. What’s more, it includes an overview of recent innovations in the industry and informs about current best practices. Further, the processing issues for dry-cleaning as well as industrial laundering and other specific cleaning processes are discussed. This book is written with the aim of sharing information, creating awareness and moving a step forward towards a safe and sustainable professional textile care industry.

“Let’s work together to replace risk with reward and conflict with common interest” (Tim Maxwell, GreenEarth, USA)

“Increased awareness and a more professional approach has allowed the PTC secret to re-qualify itself”(Gabriele Cuppini, Union-FMB Group, Italy)

“In the end, our industry should not risk to lose the dry cleaning quality, this is the reason consumers using our industry” (Frank Ziermann, Böwe, Germany)

“In the future, the textile service industry will have to cope with every new kind of textile materials” (Dr. ing. O. Mecheels, Hohenstein, Germany)

“..more and more professional laundries consciously choose for a sustainable approach and aim for maximum energy efficiency. However, to be successful, ecology and economy need to go hand in hand’ (Christeyns, Belgium)

“… the laundry market in China starts off with benefits of customers, excel in technology” (Shanghai Sailstar, China)

“The work conditions and competitive environment for laundries are continuously changing” (Ecolab, Germany)

“The environment will outlive humanity, but our access to resources will only become scarcer as the global community evolves. We, manufacturers and customers, should make a concerted effort to produce more consuming less resource.”(Milnor, USA)

What Volume I is about
In a nutshell, Volume I will provide extensive knowledge about what CINET believes to be the foundation for future market opportunities in Professional Textile Care: Quality and Sustainability and Professional Organisation. Sustainability in PTC is the key to future success. This publication was completed and supported by over 100 industry experts. It is a 350-pages, full-colour book, chock-full of valuable information hitherto unavailable in the Professional Textile Care industry. The contents are subdivided into the following topics:

• • Textile cleaning & Textile service History
  • Basic Principles
  • State of the art
  • Legislation
  • Best practices
  • Sustainable processing

• Cases / Expert visions
• E-Learning & Training
• Organisation profiles