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Texcare Asia team Kreussler

TexcareAsia: new partner, new contracts, new opportunities for Kreussler

Photo: The Kreussler and Gaowofan team at the booth: Hao Hu (Gaowofan), Liu Dong (Gaowofan), Yuying Bobist (Gaowofan), Thomas Zeck (Kreussler), Dr Manfred Seiter (Kreussler), Jürgen Bobist (Kreussler), Yu Ping Ting (Gaowofan) (from left)

Together with new trading partner Shanghai Gaowofan Merchants Company, Ltd., Kreussler enjoyed the opportunity to present new solutions like OptiCare 50° GREEN, a modular system of products certified with the coveted European Ecolabel, Lanadol AVANT x-treme, a double duty brushing agent with extra strong fat dissolving power, to lots of interested visitors. Kreussler has been busy even before the fair: due to the diligent work of new partner Gaowofan, several contracts with new wholesaling partners, suppliers, industrial laundry owners and managers as well as business partners providing luxury hotels with textile care services were signed ceremoniously at the prestigious Chateau Star River Pudong hotel in Shanghai.

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DLAI – CINET India Summer Tour Program 2023

Professional Textile Care

• 17 July : Bengaluru

   Venue: Fortune park Jp Celestial 5, Bengaluru

• 20 July : Mumbai

   Venue: Khar Gymkhana – Symphony hall, Khar Mumbai

• 22 July : Delhi

   Venue: The Bristol hotel, near Sikanderpur Metro Station, Gurugram

• 23 July : Lucknow

Venue: The Lineage hotel, CP-73, Hahnemann Chauraha Rd, Lucknow.

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Welcome to the SDA Show Dallas USA

SDA Show USA: leading the way forward

Networking for more Professionalization and Specialization

Thursday April 28th: The Sneak Preview Reception, the evening before the two days show, delivered a promising start. Excellent networking by associations, retail textile service companies, experts and suppliers from within and beyond the South West part of the USA. After Corona it was seen as a good opportunity for personal contacts and exchanging the ideas and practical solutions for issues everybody in the industry is facing. The Program of this two days event included a series of networking events, practical presentations on a wide variety of business topics and advanced demonstrations of suppliers.

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Scottisch Best Drycleaning Business Award for Elite Drycleaners

These days Elite Drycleaners, based in Edinburgh, received the Scottisch Best Drycleaning Business Award. Elite won the award as a result of a straight forward voting. The award underlines the entrepreneurial skills of the Elite team to provide modern textile services appreciated by a vast and growing clientele. Continue reading “Scottisch Best Drycleaning Business Award for Elite Drycleaners”

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DLI Appoints Board of Directors For 2021-22

The US-based Drycleaning & Laundry Institute (DLI) recently announced its board of directors for the 2021-2022 term. The board is made up of industry professionals who own and/or operate fabricare businesses and are members of the organization.

The 2021-2022 DLI Board of Directors are:

  • Chair: Jess Culpepper, CGCP®, Culpepper Cleaners, San Antonio, Texas
  • President: Bobby Patel, Kona Cleaners, Costa Mesa, California
  • President-Elect Jeff Schwegmann II, CGCP®, Sunshine Cleaners, Cold Spring, Kentucky
  • Treasurer & District 1 Director: Kathy Benzinger, Benzinger’s Dry Cleaning, Hamburg, New York
  • District 2 Director: Mark Pollock, Signature Cleaners, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
  • District 3 Director: Don Holecek, Crown Cleaners, Knoxville, Tennessee
  • District 4 Director: Ray Kroner, Kroner Dry Cleaners, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • District 5 Director: Ed Longanecker, Iris City Cleaners, Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • District 6 Director: Kyle Nesbit, Tide Cleaners, Spring, Texas
  • District 7 Director: Hilary Taylor, Continental Cleaners, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • District 8 Director: Toran Brown, Rytina Fine Cleaners & Launderers, Sacramento, California
  • Allied Trades Director: Bill Odorizzi, Sankosha USA, Inc., Elk Grove Village, Illinois

The Drycleaning & Laundry Institute (DLI) has been the international trade association for garment care professionals since 1883. It also represents over ten thousand retail drycleaners in the United States. Through legislative & regulatory policy development, education, professional training, information, garment analysis, and research, the organisation aims at offering solutions to help member businesses remain on the competitive edge. As the new directors are sworn in, their predecessors move on to an executive position or become DLI Senators.

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Best E-learning Course For ITS Starters: Get The Basic Knoweledge 100% Online

Now it’s the best time to strengthen your team’s knowledge. For Industrial Laundries newcomers, we recommend the E-INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY STARTERS course. This module is a part of the e-learning courses for the Industrial Textile Services specialists. The basic principles will educate the basics of textile care. The industrial laundry process and the used equipment are explained. The complete washing process with its important factors are explained.

Among the course’s chapters, you can find the following:

  • Professional laundry technology
  • Washing
  • Drying
  • Finishing

By attending the (online) E-INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY STARTERS course from the Level C of The World of PTC Business School, you will gain and strengthen the following skills:

1) Get to know the industrial laundry process

  • Know the processes in industrial laundry operations
  • Know the importance of the sorting process
  • Know the drying processes and operation of tumble dryers
  • know different designs and layouts of dryers, garment finishers and flatwork ironers

2) Have basic knowledge of the washing process

  • Know the different steps in a washing process
  • Know different washing processes and have basic knowledge of the important factors influencing the wash quality
  • know different designs and layouts of washer extractors
  • Be able to distinguish different designs, loading and unloading possibilities of wash extractors, water flow diagrams and chemical dosing possibilities
  • Know different designs and layouts of tunnel washers
  • Understand the differences between standing baths and counterflow washing
  • know the process of extraction presses and centrifugal extractors

The World of PTC – Business School is a training initiative developed by CINET in cooperation with international suppliers, specifically designed for professional laundry and dry cleaning stakeholders. Through this initiative CINET aims to strengthen and stimulate the development of the PTC (Professional Textile Care) industry.

You will find easy accessible information on Retail Textile Cleaning and Industrial Textile Services on the following levels:

  • Starters (Level C): Basic level of education and knowledge for people who likes to start in the textile cleaning industry:
  • Operational Excellence (Level B): Advanced level for operators, employees for detail knowledge and skills of the textile cleaning process
  • Management (Level A): Excellent level for managers and employees on legislation, improvement methodologies, operational management, business modelling & cost structures and marketing

The product range of The World of PTC – Business School consists of E-learning & (on the job) Training courses, Practical Workshops & Webinars and a vast PTC online library & Book series. Select the courses that match your professional (both individual and company) needs and become a Master in PTC!

More info, on the E-INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY STARTERS course  in The World of PTC – Business School – here!

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EXPO Detergo 2018; Oustanding innovations in robotics & automation

Milan, October 19th; Prominent innovations in robot technology and automation were shown for the first time for a broad professional audience at ExpoDetergo International 2018. The most spectacular and eye-catching innovation came from the Netherlands. The newly established Laundry Robotics company presented robin; the first industrial laundry robot, for the folding of bath linen. In addition, innovations were presented by Inwatec Denmark aimed at the automatic sorting of corporate clothing and there were in the RFID technology field or automated information processing and process control, the necessary new developments.

robin; A new and revolutionary robot

One of the main innovations was released by Laundry Robotics. The robot named robin picks up towels and provides every terry folding machine (regardless of type and brand) of 720 towels per hour. The robot works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, offers 100% consistent and reliable output, as well as high quality and productivity. Robin uses Deep learning software developed by Laundry Robotics for the use in industrial laundries.

The Laundry Robotics team, presenting robin

Laundry Robotics is a start-up of six partners that focuses on the design, development and creation of robot solutions for human challenges in the industrial laundry sector. Accuracy, efficiency and high productivity are central. Finding ways to work faster, smarter and cheaper is essential in order to be able to meet the rapidly changing market demand in the future.

The sale of this new robot is expected to start early next year and will be carried out by dealer Landuwasco in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands.

 

3-D camera equipped grappling robot from Inwatec

At Inwatec was shown a machine that can sort dirty laundry with a mechanical arm by means of an advanced 3-D camera. The 3D camera software finds the best grip on the garments. This ensures good separation of textiles and high efficiency. There is then a next device that checks the clothes with an X-ray or all bags are empty. It then also has the possibility to sort the textiles into 9 different categories in order to select the correct washing process. This can make a difference in manpower when sorting the laundry on the dirty side.

FRIGG 1500 from Inwatec

 

Servtronic auto-feed system from Kannegiesser

Kannegiesser has also had developments in automation. There were several folding machines with automatic feeders, the servotronic, which alleviated the work for the workers. The workers were able to fasten the corner points of the sheets one at a time in the clamp pin, which were then hung in a spread-out manner to be loaded into the folding machine. For example, during the work a buffer could be made, so that even if an operator was away for a while, for example to get a new cart, the production can still continue. In addition, there was a speed feeder who was already prepared to also be connected to the same kind of auto-feed system should this be necessary.

Kannegiesser’s newest Servotronic system

Metalprogetti’s latest conveyor  

Metalprogetti is a leading Italian company in the design and manufacture of automated systems for moving and handling both hanging and folded garments, as well as a wide range of other light items. One of their newest products on the stand was the Batch conveyor belt. It has been developed to automatically manage orders that come from automatic packing systems and organize them in defined groups, for example via routes and drop zones.

Latest conveyor from Metalprogetti

 

The following companies with innovations also at ExpoDetergo International 2018 will be presented more in depth next week in a brochure:

  • Böwe
  • Electrolux
  • LG
  • PONY
  • Safechem
  • Sankosha
  • Yamamoto
  • Christeyns
  • Ecolab
  • Lavatec
  • Milnor
  • Tolkar
  • Vega/Fintec

 

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‘Shirt service’ shows growth potential (D)

Whatever trends in fashion are running, the shirt never goes! Being a classic example, more and more young people wear shirts and therefor the demand on laundry service is increasing. The wuillingness to wash and iron is decreasing, which levels up expectations of advertising in this service segment.

The concept of ‘Shirt-service‘ has developed and is being picked up by several dry cleaning companies.

The Deutscher Textilreinigungs-Verbund e.V. provides their members with attractive advertising materials during the period of 1st September till 30 November 2018, in order to stimulate and advocate their members’ ad campaigns. The campaign is aimed at customers in order to have them experience why modern households cannot do without a shirt-service and to convince them that it will pay back to bring the shirts to a professional laundry service

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Technical Bulletin. The fibres.

Different types of fabrics and fibres have been around since people started to shelter themselves from the elements. It was quickly discovered that wool could protect from heat and cold as well as from wind and rain. The versatility of wool is unique. None have been able to match the fabric, they have had better luck in refining and improving it.

The refining process started from the moment people domesticated sheep. They took the wool in one hand and drew it out, twisting it into a thread with the fingers of the other hand. This resulted in a thick uneven yarn.

This was later refined by the use of a (crude) spindle with a stone or clay ring to the end of a short wooden stick. This ‘flywheel’ enabled the drawn-out yarn to be wound on to the spindle. This method didn’t change for thousands of years.

People eventually tried to imitate the beneficial properties in new manmade fibres. This increase in fibre diversity did create the need for cleaners to properly distinguish between them. For laundry applications, textiles can be split into 4 principle categories

ANIMAL VEGETABLE REGENERATED SYNTHETIC
Wool  Silk

Mohair

Cashmere

Cotton     Linen

Jute      Flax

Bamboo

Viscose

Triacetate (tricel)

Diacetate (dicel)

Polyester (Terylene)

Polyamide (nylon)

A very effective way to deal with the inherent weaknesses of the different fibres, is to blend fibres together who complement each other. A common blend, for instance, is to combine cotton and wool. Cotton is relatively cheap and strong whereas wool is more expensive but more fragile. A cotton warp will give added strength to a fabric with a wool weft which provides the texture and colour. Thus a stronger and cheaper fabric is born.

To identify all these different fibres and blends, several methods are used. There is a difference in the flammability of the 4 groups. So simply burning them will give you a clue what you’re looking at. Animal hair, for instance doesn’t burn easily, whereas the vegetables do. Since the textures of the fibres are so distinct, you can also use a microscope. Hair is more scaly, cotton looks like a ‘flat twisted ribbon’ and polyester looks like a smooth ‘glass rod’.

Before you get to make garments, the fibres need to be spun into yarns first. The friction between the fibres bind the yarn and the twist brings the fibres closer together which increases the friction thereby making the yarn stronger. Wool is scoured or washed before spinning. This is to remove the grease, sweat and dirt. This isn’t necessary for cotton, because the natural wax is a good lubricant.

The different fibres pass through a series of processes. First Carding, to straighten the fibre. Then Combing, to remove short unwanted fibres. Gilling, to make more uniform ropes or slivers of fibres. Spinning, either one-step or multiple, to reduce the slivers to usable spun yarns. And Doubling, twisting the yarns together for strength or colour effect.

To make the fabric, the yarns are woven or knitted. There has not been much refinement in these techniques. It has mainly been mechanised to speed it up. When we think of the cleanability of a textile, we tend to think the way the wool or textile behaves, but much also depends on the construction of the garment. Textiles must be handled in laundering and dry-cleaning according to construction. Knitwear must be handled differently from woven goods and it will be important to remember this in the future.

 

 

 

Based on: Guild of cleaners and launderers, July 2018 Issue TB 58

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Mr. Halsey M. Cook Jr, the new President and CEO of Milliken & Company

Milliken & Company’s board of directors announced the appointment of Mr. Halsey M. Cook Jr. as President and CEO. Until now, Mr. Cook was the president and CEO for Sonepar USA, a global distributor of electrical products. His main goal in the new role is to introduce change where the organization can further leverage an emphasis on innovation, manufacturing excellence and customer care.

With a history of over 150 years and having its corporate headquarters located in Spartanburg, North Carolina, Milliken & Company is active across a wide range of disciplines including specialty chemical products used in the professional textile care industry. The company has 35 manufacturing facilities located in the U.S., U.K., Belgium, France, China, India, and Australia, and other sales and service operations throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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