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Understanding greying

Roger Cawood explains how to tackle greying

Explaining moth damage to the customer

Query: How to explain moth damage to my extremely disgruntled customer, who is trying to blame me for damaging a very expensive lambswool sweater?

Recognising and resolving machine problems

Readers might want to cut out this article and keep it handy for when a puzzling problem develops in the future, say Roger Cawood and Richard Neale

The laundry manager of the future

Richard Neale of LTC Worldwide predicts a world of AI and practical advantages for the laundry manager

Washer extractors – they just keep on spinning

Washer extractors are spinning along quite nicely – at faster speeds and more economically than ever

Lands of promise and opportunity

The Middle East laundry and drycleaning market has promising growth prospects for years to come, writes Eugene Gerden

Trump’s tariffs and the effect on the US textile care industry

We catch up with trade organisations in the United Sates and find out how Trump’s tariffs are impacting on the industry

Howdy, partners

Howard Bradley seems to have a bit of a Stateside ­fixation as he delves in to the mysteries of starchy denim and a North American slang phrase that he believes insults drycleaners

Dateline1885: Victorian drycleaning

LCNi ­first burst on the scene 140 years ago. Howard Bradley marvels at how things have changed in the drycleaning world since then

Coping successfully with flood damaged work

There has been extensive flooding across the UK in the previous three months and thousands of homes have been seriously affected. This is a global issue nowadays. Readers have queried whether we can advise on dealing with severe staining, water contamination, odours and all the problems that accompany flood damage, along with the distress this causes to households.