CINET strives to stimulate the development of Professional Textile Care (PTC) worldwide. Webinars and workshops, the Business School and WOPCOM are a few means used to inform the whole industry. CINET also offers a quality and hygiene management program which helps companies to develop their own tailormade quality and hygiene management system.
Cerclean®: International reference standard for PTC Best Practices
CINET has developed Cerclean® for both Industrial Textile Services (ITS) and Retail Textile Cleaning (RTC).
- Aim is to help companies worldwide to develop a quality and hygiene management system to achieve more efficiency, more sustainabilty, safe working conditions and a higher and consistent quality level. Cerclean® provides an international reference which can be adapted to the national state of the art and circumstances.
- Pillars of the certification program are
- ISO 9001:2015
- EN 14065 Risk Analysis Biocontamination Control (RABC)
- International best practises and international standards
- The program includes e-learning including formats/examples which enable companies to develop a company specific quality and hygiene management system in a cost effective way
- The program helps companies
- To implement international best practices
- To comply with applicable national legislation and guidelines
- With setting quality objectives
- With handling hazardous chemicals,
- With proper maintenance of machinery,
- With good housekeeping,
- With Complaint management,
- With productivity improvement
- With energy savings.
- The program has a step-by-step approach so companies can develop the quality and hygiene management system at their own pace with support form CINET-experts.
- Cerclean® is used in many countries as an international reference standard and supported by national associations.
The Netherlands
Industrial Textile Service
- Certex® is an accredited quality management system
- Benchmark in Dutch heathcare
- All ITS-companies serving healthcare are certified under Certex
- Conformity assessement body is TÜV Netherlands
- Pillars are
- ISO 9001:2015
- EN 14065 Risk Analysis Biocontamination Control (RABC)
- Includes laundry specific requirements
- Water quality
- Microbial requirements/limits for textiles
- Healthcare
- Industry food
- Hotels with care patients
- Actual developments:
- Internationalization
- (Major) Dutch ITS-companies part of international companies
- Certex® certification available for subsidiaries abroad
- Development of sub-scheme for Hotel & Leisure
- Specific requirements and guidelines
- Optimization process for applicant for more efficiency, less time/cost
- Digital support (forms, procedures)
- Online audits
- Internationalization
Retail Textile Cleaning
- NETEX Environmental and Quality Guarantee Certificate
- Specific scheme for dry cleaners
- 65% of members are certified
- Developed in corporation with and accepted by Dutch authorities
- Focus on
- Compliance with environmental legislation and occupational health and safety legislation
- Application of international best practices and (inter)national standards
- Quality and efficiency
- NETEX Cerclean®
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- Program made available for Dutch market
- Incorporates NETEX Environmental certificate
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