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Join The Indonesia & SEA Best Practices Awards (July 11-12), during ExpoLaundry 2019 in Jakarta, Indonesia

The Indonesia & SEA Best Practices Awards will take place on July 11-12 in Jakarta, Indonesia, during ExpoLaundry 2019.  The event is organized by CINET in close cooperation with the National Association ASLI and the show organization (PT Media Artha Santosa) and it is a chapter of CINET’s Global Best Practices Awards Program 2019-2020, whose Final will take place in Frankfurt, during Texcare International (June, 20-22, 2020).Industry Professionals from Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines and Singapore have been invited to participate in an unique networking event for the Southeast Asia region.
More about the agenda of the Indonesia & SEA Best Practices Awards, as well as on ExpoClean and ExpoLaundry Jakarta, 2019, on the event page – here!
The Indonesian Best Practices Awards last year (2018), a huge success!

In the coming months, the next events that will be organized in cooperation with show organisations and national Professional Textile Care associations are:

  • Brazilian Best Practices Awards, 27-29 August 2019, LAVTECH (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
  • Dutch Best Practices Awards, 13-14 September 2019, LEE 19 (Laundry Experience Event, Antwerp, BE)
  • Canadian Best Practices Awards, 5-6 October 2019, CANADIAN FABRICARE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE (Thornhill, Ontario)
  • Russian Best Practices Awards, 29 October 2019 (Preliminary date), TEXCARE FORUM
  • More events to come

 

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Clearent strengthens position in dry-cleaning industry

Payments solutions provider Clearent has taken a minority stake in CleanCloud, a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) business servicing dry cleaners and laundromats.

CleanCloud primarily serves small, independent, multi-store businesses, but also serves larger chains outside the U.S. The app includes a CRM function to improve the end-user experience by allowing the end-user to place laundry orders via their mobile device. The tools and online reach allow smaller operators to compete with the industry giants, including well-funded on-demand disruptors with significant marketing budgets and, often, highly developed infrastructure. The company regularly rolls out new features, ensuring users have the most advanced software solution at their disposal. As a result, users can see a significant increase in their year-on-year turnover, on average.

Dan Geraty, CEO of Clearent: “Aligning with CleanCloud has taken our company’ efforts in the dry-cleaning industry to the next level. As a result of our investment in CleanCloud, not only have we firmly established an international presence in this exciting, growing industry, but we also have enhanced our ability to provide the right service, at the right time and at the best possible price to dry-cleaning companies of all sizes across the enterprise spectrum.”

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Meet the GBPA18’s outstanding PTC showcases: Champion Cleaners (UAE)

For the coming period, we will present you week by week, the most outstanding PTC showcases that were officially nominated for The Global Best Practices Awards Program 2018. The profiles of these companies are also present in the WOPCOM platform, which you can access here.

Champion Cleaners (UAE)

5-star premium dry cleaning and laundry services in Dubai and the UAE

At Champion Cleaners, one of the leading dry cleaning and laundry services establishments in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, the aim is to provide high-quality services to all customers. By consistently expanding the knowledge on more efficient and innovative ways to deliver the its services and improve the convenience for the customers, Champion Cleaners wants to be in a frontrunner in the local textile care industry. Since the foundation of the company in 1997, the operation has grown into a network consisting of 42 strategically located outlets across the United Arab Emirates.

Watch the video-presentation of Champion Cleaners (UAE)

In order to provide its customers with a true premium array of textile care services, ranging from regular dry cleaning and laundry services to carpet and upholstery cleaning and professional leather care, Champion Cleaners frequently invests in its machinery and facilities. The central processing plant is state-of-the-art and fully digitalised, the company uses the latest finishing equipment, and the customer service makes use of modern technologies to provide an optimal customer experience, just to name a few of the investments that Champion Cleaners has made over the past few years.

Champion Cleaners regularly invests in state-of-the-art machinery and equipment

In addition to its focus on quality, the company also makes considerable efforts to operate as socially responsible as possible. This starts with the in-house maintenance team, which inspects all machines on a daily basis to ensure they all run optimally. To encourage more efficient cleaning processes, Champion Cleaners employ various technologies, such as Soft Wash and GreenEarth, which reduce the consumption of water, power, and detergent without compromising the service quality. All waste is handled by a recognised waste management company, as in the water discharge. By using only environmental-friendly and bio-degradable garment covers, the company aims at further reducing the negative effects of its operations on the environment.

Quality facilities to deliver a quality service

When Champion Cleaners was founded in Dubai in 1997, the company’s founders knew that, in order to become one of the region’s leading dry cleaning and laundry services providers, the quality of their services needed to be top notch. From the machinery they needed to the maintenance that is required to keep these machines running at optimal capacity, and from the detergents used for the cleaning processes and the ease-of-use of the company’s customer service, Champion Cleaner pays exceptional attention to detail throughout its operations.

The company uses fully-automatic, state-of-the-art washing and dry cleaning systems with automatic dosing units in order to control the consumption of detergent, which in turn benefits the environment as well. Champion Cleaners has become known for its use of mild chemicals, its high-quality spotting agents to treat fragile, high-end fibres and textiles, and its long-term partnership with Diversey, the global leader in providing smart sustainable solutions for cleaning and hygiene. Methods and technologies like Soft Wash (by Alliance) and GreenEarth help the company to operate more efficiently in terms of water and detergent consumption, while improving the sustainability of the entire operation as well.

Champion Cleaners’ obsession with quality is also apparent in the way it interacts with its customers. Besides offering a extensive amount of services, including traditional dry cleaning, specialised care for leather and fur items, and the cleaning of soft toys, the company also makes it very easy for its customers to make use of those services. Customers can contact the company and place orders through a mobile application, and the company will arrange a pick-up and/or delivery service according to the customer’s specific wishes. This increases the coverage of Champion Cleaners considerably and it offers an easy method of contracting its services to customers who can’t come to one of the company’s outlets.

Dedicated to a greener future

In terms of machinery and machine maintenance, Champion Cleaners is a reference in the regional dry cleaning and laundry services sector. The new cleaning methods allow the company more control over its consumption of water, power, and detergent. This way, Champion Cleaners aims to use as little of each as possible without compromising the quality of its final product. The usage of optidryers, which sense moisture and automatically switch off to prevent the over-drying of garments, is another example of the state-of-the-art machinery that Champion Cleaners has invested in recently.

Like is the case for textile care operations all over the world, the management and recycling of waste is a major challenge for Champion Cleaners in Dubai. As a solution to this issue, the company works with professional waste management firms to take care of what’s left over after each cleaning operation. The same goes for the water discharge. Outsourcing these tasks to experts saves the company plenty of work and benefits the natural environment at the same time.

Automatic conveyor system at Champion Cleaners’ central processing plant

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INTERNATIONAL MEET UP WITH CHINA PTC – SEPTEMBER 24-28TH, 2019 SHANGHAI

China Professional Textile Care (PTC) is developing fast in line with other business areas. Stimulated by a strong increase in the domestic market, service concepts based upon new enabling technologies gain ground in the markets fast. The dynamics of this process is supported and facilitated by the CHINA Laundry Association (CLA) who have set an infrastructure China wide to stimulate implementation of innovations in new technologies and PTC service models.

International Meet Up Program

In line with this objectives CLA, partnering up with CINET, are organising an International Laundry Industry Summit September 24th to meet with international partners and professionals from the industry. Texcare Asia & China Laundry Expo (TXCA & CLE) organised by the newly established Partnership of Messe Frankfurt Shanghai, Unifair and CLA, will open at September 25th and offer internationally the most wide range of novelties and new technologies to support business development. At the same time PTC companies in China developed quite well over the last years. September 26 – 28th some excellent showcases of advanced PTC companies are visited, amongst them the winners of the Global Best Practices Awards 2018 in Milan Italy.

Networking

The program of this International PTC Meet Up will provide excellent opportunities to meet personally with Chinese Business leaders and advanced companies. CLA and CINET are partnering to prepare a complete facilitated Program of meetings, personal exchange of information, informal talks and dinners, as well as practical visits characterized by an open exchange of information.

A convenient hotel arrangement has been made at the Wyndham Grand Plaza Royale Oriental hotel, from where the program will be executed. International visitors are invited for the first time to participate in the China Laundry Summit.

See here the whole program and the registration form for this unique event.

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CLEAN SHOW 2019 – LOD Meetup 2: meet industry leaders

One of the highlights of the CINET activities organized during the Clean show was the Laundry on Demand meetup on 20 June after show hours. The meetup was organized in a most informal, local bar creating to opportunity to have a drink while discussing the future of professional textile care.

During the panel the audience was invited to participate and engage by using their smartphones to comment and / or vote on certain statements & questions.

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CLEAN SHOW 2019 – Less visitors but good, lucrative conversations!

The 2019 edition of the Clean Show took place in New Orleans, USA at the Ernest Memorial Convention Center from 20-23 June. The show was (as always) very well organized. The 2019 edition will be the last Clean Show which is organized by John Riddle and his team at Riddle & Associates since Messe Frankfurt has bought the show earlier this year.

Exhibitor response

The figures haven’t been published yet but although the number of visitors seems to have gone down the quality of the conversations was good according to exhibiting suppliers. The visitors that traveled to New Orleans showed that they are serious about developing new ideas for their businesses and so this resulted in detailed discussions about new projects. As seems to be a trend globally the goal of visiting a trade show seems officially to have changed. Where trade shows used to be all about new products the show nowadays is much more about networking and gaining in depth knowledge.

Show impression with NOLA (New Orleans) band playing at the opening of the Clean Show

Press conference Messe Frankfurt

At the show a press conference was organize by Messe Frankfurt with support of the leading sponsor associations (and previous owners of the show). Messe Frankfurt organizes some 150 trade shows globally. The acquisition of the Clean Show fits well with the strategy of Messe Frankfurt to become the leading show organizer for the professional laundry industry around the world. This is showcased amongst others by the recent acquisition and partnership with various other shows such as JET Expo, Texcare Forum India, Gulf Laundrex and the merger of Texcare Asia with China Laundry Expo.

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Maytag introduces new laundry solution – the Multi-Load washer

Washer Maytag Commercial Laundry recently demonstrated the brand’s newest solution for the vended and on-premises laundry markets, the Maytag Multi-Load washer.

Designed to handle heavy loads of laundry turn after turn, the Maytag Multi-Load washers are available now in rigid-mount construction in 20 – 65 lb capacities, with a phased rollout of additional configurations continuing through 2019. This configure-to-order washer is stated to allow owners and operators to customise construction options to meet the needs of their business.

Entering the market this summer, the Maytag Commercial Laundry washer can be configured in hundreds of different ways for different country needs – at no extra cost – allowing customers to choose among different water heating options, electrical connections, control interfaces, water inlets, drain systems and cabinet construction options.

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CLEAN SHOW 2019 – Networking & having fun

As can be expected in the lively & swinging New Orleans there was plenty of opportunity to connect with new industry stakeholders as well as reconnect with the existing network. On the day before the show CINET organized a company visit to Mike’s Golden Cleaners and the production facilities of Milnor with a small group of international travelers that were in the USA already.

A small delegation of international visitors from Brazil, China and the Netherlands visits the wonderful host Ralph Davis at Mike’s Golden Cleaners to see some of America’s dry cleaning culture

Milnor factory tour in Kenner, New Orleans where all day long an open house is organized

At Milnor you’ll find true American ‘build-to-last’ machinery as well as a warm ‘family-feeling’ amongst the team of staff that operates the factory every day

A Milnor Pulse Flow CBW at the end of the production stage

GreenEarth hosted its reception at the Blues Bar where the three founders Jim Douglas, Ron Benjamin and Jim Barry were presented a special recognition from all their services putting Green Earth on the map globally.

It was a pleasure to reconnect with Nancy Jenkins (right on picture), CEO of ARTA, the American Reusable Textile Association (member of CINET) and meet Barbara Fordyce (left on picture) also from ARTA.

Good meeting as well with Sidney Chelsky, the director of the Canadian Fabricare Association (member of CINET) preparing the Canadian Best Practices Awards organized 5th of October 2019 in Toronto

As always a real pleasure to meet with Jorge Cristina of the trade magazine Multiservicios

CINET and Lavtech (represented by Mr. Douglas S. Venditti and Ms. Bruna Venditti) meet at the show to discuss a collaboration for the upcoming Lavtech trade show 27-29 August in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Peter Wennekes (left), President of CINET and David Cotter (right) CEO of TCATA (member of CINET) meet at the show to discuss possible collaborations amongst in the USA and globally

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CLEAN SHOW 2019 – Innovations & developments

Although times are changing there were still many innovative developments to be seen from exhibiting companies at the show. In line with expectations the there was a lot of attention for more integrated & automated processing, increasing the scale of operation and lowering the cost price. An example is presented with this highly automated 3-bucket Colmac machine for shirts.

Dry cleaning solvents well represented
Most dry cleaning solvent suppliers were presented at the Clean show. Since 2 years (at last Clean Show) Seitz and Safechem announced their partnership to provide Sensene to the North American market. At this year’s show this partnership was clearly promoted. Naturally Kreussler (Solvon K4), Olin (PERC), Greenearth and Streets were also well presented.

Wet cleaning an acknowledged standard
Besides the solvents all wet cleaning solutions where naturally also presented at Clean by all major suppliers. Speaking to suppliers it seems cleaners have adopted professional wet cleaning as one of the cleaning solutions that belongs in a modern retail laundry facility, just as well as regular laundry and solvent cleaning appliances. Professional textile care stands for a total solution provider for any type of cleaning required by the customer.

SEITZ (Germany)

At the Seitz booth Tobias Betram elaborates on the partnership developments with Seitz to promote Sensene to the North American market. Clearly a positive development over the past two years.

GREENEARTH (USA)

The Greenearth team, lead my Tim Maxwell has an impressive booth with a design that strongly relates to fashion. At the booth a washing machine filter (produced by PlanetCare) is presented which keeps plastic out of the oceans. In partnership with the Plastic Soup Foundation based in Amsterdam Greenearth has started a long-term agreement to implement these filters for all their affiliates which clean some 25 million shirts annually. Pilots will start in California, projecting national rollout in 2020.

OLIN (Switzerland)

Olin team promotes PERC Solvent cleaning at the Clean show as the most reliable and proven solvent solution used in dry cleaning for over 70 years.

ELECTROLUX (Sweden)

Paolo Schira, Vice President Business Unit Laundry at Electrolux explains at the Electrolux booth about the interesting new app OnE (presented on an enlarged screen). This app is connected to the machinery and supports business owners / managers to increase productivity, maximize machine uptime and reduce cost conveniently via Smartphone.

ILSA (Italy)

Many partnerships & collaborations were seen on the Clean show booths between machine & solvent/detergent suppliers. An example is seen here at the Columbia / ILSA booth where Marco Boccola of ILSA Italy (right) and Leon Wennekes of CINET (left) exchange the latest developments happening in the US and globally.

MILNOR (USA)
The prime innovation presented at the Milnor booth was the MILRAIL™ rail system. This is the new conveyor system for automated transport of laundry bags for heavy-duty laundries. As the industrial laundry market is developing into more integrated processing there was a need for Milnor to increase its product portfolio with a rail system that meets the product requirements of Milnor washing machinery: robust, low-maintenance and stable processing. The rail system eliminates the need for pocket conveyor (increasing available floor space) and is built to last with non-welded rail configuration, ergonomic design and anodized extruded aluminum rail. The system can be configured in various sizes and has a flexible, modular build up.

Furthermore Milnor also exhibited new washing machines. Two new soft mount washers (18 & 27kg) were promoted as well as the 125kg soft mount machine which requires less space / footprint in the laundry. Furthermore the barriers washers of Milnor (which were introduced to Europe in Expo Detergo last year) were on display for offering in the North America markets.

Thiery Lambermont en Gauthier Lambermont of Milnor Europe in front of one of the largest ‘heavy-duty’ wash extractors in the world, especially suitable for work wear laundries.

LAUNDRY COMPUTER TECHNICS (The Netherlands)

Marjolein Plandsoen and David Tiegelaar of LCT, member of CINET, have been actively promoting their CHIPTEX U-Cab solution for smart distribution and collection of garments to the US market over the past couple editions of the Clean Show. This has meanwhile been noted by several laundries amongst which the Angelica Corporation, one of the largest US textile service providers in the Health Care segment.

VEGA SYSTEMS & LANDUWASCO (The Netherlands)At the show Walter Ten Hagen (left in picture), commercial director of Landuwasco (CINET member) was spotted at the Vega Systems booth with (from left to right) Rogier Vos and Martin Stokman of Vega Sytems and Marc van Boekholt of Blycolin, a textile service company that offers services in various European countries. Walter ten Hagen and Marc van Boekholt are two of the leading entrepreneurs that have set up Laundry Robotics, a new company (introduced at the last Expo Detergo show) that has produced the first-ever Laundry robot being able to automatically pickup and feed towels in the ironer.

JENSEN (Switzerland)
At the booth of Jensen the first thing that catched attention was the Alpha by Jensen tunnel washer. Alpha machines are stand-alone equipment, offered in standard configurations with limited options and customizations. Jensen also presented a completely new finishing line consisting of a new feeder, a new ironer and a new folder.

Gerda Jank (left) and Patrick Gittard (right) elaborated on the Alpha machine which is produced at the production facilities of Jensen in China and meanwhile offered to customers globally. CINET has had the pleasure to visit the production facility of Jensen which was absolutely a first class, modern factory.

KANNEGIESSER(Germany)
Al usual also at this show Kannegiesser was well presented. Laundry technologies for the future were displayed in a variety of solutions, including Robotics in the Dry-wash area, today’s washing technology for batch washers, advanced logistics and ETech applications for more integrated processing.

BÖWE (Germany)
BÖWE exhibited on Clean 2019 the latest models of the BÖWE PremiumLine and the iLine range. Especially the new development turbidity measurement by clarity the drycleaners were very interested in, because the industry can save energy, cycletime, cooling water and the garments get less mechanical impact.

GIRBAU (North America)
Girbau proudly presented its commercial and industrial laundry equipment, solutions and innovations.The commercial and industrial laundry products on display included open-pocket E-Series Washers and ProDry2 Dryers, as well as high-volume GI ironing, multi-sort folding and stacking systems. Live demonstrations of the new Compact+ 5-in-One, ST2700 Dryer with vacuum loading, FT Maxi Folder, DRF Feeder and FR+ Folder seemed to steal the show.

Kreussler (Germany)
Kreussler’s SYSTEMK4 continues to be the only bio-based dry cleaning system in the world. Wet cleaning continues to be a growing conversation for dry cleaners.

LANADOL X-PRESS combines outstanding cleaning power with ultimate economic efficiency. Theconcentrated products deliver a punch and clients love that they don’t have to use a lot of product to achieve excellent results. Transportation costs are lower and the overall carbon footprint is reduced.

UNION (Italy)
Union exhibited 10 of the most representative machine models sold in North America, with loading capacities of between 18 and 40kg, as well as special models designed for this market in particular such as the tandem machine with two 40kg baskets. The machines are all multi-solvent, available for all major perc alternatives. Some were also put into operation at the show in order for clients to experience some of the most recent technological developments and discuss them before the actual purchase, which unlike in other countries, is still common practice during shows, and as was this case this time too.

RENZACCI (Italy)
In the drycleaning field Renzacci showed the new range of Bio Dry Cleaning machines using natural solvents. Among the most important ones worth to be mentioned are the new generation of machines EXCELLENCE 2.0 and NEBULA 2.0.

In the laundry division they introduced the new OCEANO System, which is using the innovative Tech Stream System which optimizes the water loading factor, minimizes the mechanical banging and maximizes the hydrokinetic washing action and the properties of the products.

LAVATECH LAUNDRY TECHNOLOGY (Germany)
Not only the new LP583 Lavaspeed extraction press, which features a unique hydraulics package, but the 12-compartment, 220-pound LT100 was also on the floor. Apart from that, the LX445 washer-extractor, the LAVARAIL monorail system, a TT 756 gas dryer and front-load FL633 gas dryer, and a single lane towel folder were prominently displayed. The company also featured the newest software package for osLaundry, the highly successful control system that can be built into all Lavatec equipment and helps make plant management more efficient.

FABRITEC INTERNATIONAL (USA)
Fabritec announced the release of a brand-new product for the Stamford line of drycleaning spotters. STRIKE is an all-purpose drycleaning pre-spotter designed for use in all solvents and removes soil, perspiration, grease and other common stains. STRIKE can be applied directly to the soiled area and drycleaned while wet – no brushing or flushing needed.

POSEIDON TEXTILE CARE SYSTEMS (USA)
Showcased were soft-mount Wet Cleaning Machines and demonstrations of their advanced Inteli control. The control is claimed to make every variable of the wet cleaning process programmable, including water temperature and levels; number of baths, rinses and pre-washes; automatic chemical injection; extract speed; and wash-rotation speed and duration (including zero rotation).

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CLEAN SHOW 2019 – MFM breakfast session

As is a custom for the US based groups and associations there are various networking events being organized around the Clean Show activities with breakfast sessions in the morning and receptions in the evening. CINET was invited for the MFM breakfast session which was most exciting with interesting contributions that gave food for thought.

During the MFM (Methods for Management; a management club of dry cleaners) breakfast CINET President Peter N.M. Wennekes gave a keynote presentation on the international market trends in Professional textile care and expectations for the future.

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