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Forbes Professional announces further expansion
UKForbes Professional has this week acquired rental and maintenance accounts from commercial laundry equipment specialists Ashbank Service Limited.
Bug-busting yarn knocks out Covid-19
USA/INTERNATIONAL UMF Corporation has announced its Micrillon yarns have been shown to inactivate human coronavirus and human influenza A H1N1, and also destroy MRSA and E. coli,...
OPINION: The industry, the virus and the vaccine
UKHere, Ken Cupitt of the Guild of Cleaners and Launderers gives his own personal take on the extreme situation experienced by all sectors of the industry. He stresses his views are...
Carrington Textiles and Pincroft celebrate 130 years of UK manufacturing
Lancashire-based Carrington Textiles and Pincroft are celebrating their 130th anniversary this year, a great milestone for one of Europe’s largest fully integrated textile processing...
Colorado laundry beetles on to renew Hygienically Clean Healthcare certification
USAHospital Cooperative Laundry (HCL), with locations in Pueblo and Denver, Coorado., has recently qualified for renewal of the Hygienically Clean Healthcare certification....
Charitable Oxwash partners with Thrift+
UKEco-laundry and drycleaning startup, Oxwash, today announced a partnership with Thrift+, a new, online charity donation service for your best old clothes. Offering super-easy...
Positivity reigns at America’s Best Cleaners Leadership Forum
USA/INTERNATIONALThe America’s Best Cleaners Leadership Forums, which have taken place once a month for the past four months, have become a safe haven for any and every interested...
Prime Minister vetoes meeting with Hospitality Minister petitioners
UKAccording to a report on the Boutique Hotelier website on Thursday 14 January, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has turned down a request to meet with petitioners who raised more...
TSA: ‘So much for green shoots of recovery’ – and new website launches
UKTextile Services Association (TSA) CEO David Stevens has just issued a New Year update to the membership saying: “So much for the green shoots of recovery…However, the vaccine roll...
Christeyns staff support local food bank
UKStaff at local hygiene chemicals manufacturer Christeyns UK helped support the Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank with donations over the festive period.
Parliament’s cross party support for hospitality industry and supply chain
UKUKHospitality (UKH) has welcomed Monday’s debate on the hospitality industry in Parliament which, the trade body says, highlights the overwhelming support for the sector and the...
Maxi-Press piles on the pressure
GERMANY/INTERNATIONALMaxi-Press is now producing membranes with its new, fully automatic elastomer press from Wickert Maschinenbau GmbH. The press, which was specially developed...
Loyal Clean Show exhibitors can reap rate lock reward for 2022
USA/INTERNATIONALPrevious exhibitors of The Clean Show have an opportunity to save by locking in current booth rates for the next edition until this Friday, 15 January. The next...
Rinnai pledges limitless heated water for all hygiene regimes
UKRinnai continuous flow water heating units, with precision temperature control for thermal disinfection to low temperature cycles, can now deliver almost 1,000 litres per hour per unit.
UKFT steps back reluctantly from representing drycleaners
UK UKFT has regretfully announced that it will no longer be able to represent the UK’s drycleaners following the loss of its largest member.
CINET looks forward to a positive 2021
INTERNATIONALCINET announced that this year it remains “strongly committed to our goal to supporting its members and the global PTC industry as a whole with providing facts and...
French laundries demand more support from government
FRANCECINET reports that, according to the French textile care association L’Entretien Textile, laundry businesses with more than 50 employees are not receiving the same support...
Zoom with the Guild on 20 January
UK/INTERNATIONALKenneth Cupitt, pictured, and the Guild of Cleaners and Launderers are inviting textile care professionals to a scheduled Zoom video conference, on ‘Views on the...
Sunak’s latest snub for hospitality supply chain enrages TSA
UKThe Textile Services Association (TSA) is incandescent with fury as laundries get ready for closures in the third lockdown of the pandemic. “It has been 12 months of hell for...
