One of the major concerns I hear from dry cleaners I work with is how to keep prices up despite discounting competitors and how to attract customers who will pay your prices even in a turbulent economy. In order to make 2012 your best year yet, you’ll need to concentrate this year on three major […]
Month: January 2012
The Road Ahead In 2012
Welcome, cleaning industry, to 2012…and may this be your best year ever! I will have drunk a toast to that on New Years, if my doctors allow. I write this month’s column, my first for 2012 and my 21st year for the Cleaner & Launderer magazine, from a hospital bed in a Veterans’ Hospital in […]
Pneumatics 101
Now that we’ve digested some basic pneumatic concepts we’ll put the jigsaw together and do some real work. How’s about pressing a pair of pants on an air operated legger? There are several different manufacturers of pressing equipment, and in our industry as many schemes which combine pneumatic components in different ways as there are […]