Groupon: Yes or No? Is Groupon a smart way to advertise your dry cleaning pick-up and delivery business? I have the benefit of my membership trying Groupon and giving me their feedback. Some were good, most were not. But, I will outline the perfect situation to give Groupon a try under YOUR strict guidelines. First […]
Month: March 2012
The Environmental Corner BY Steve Henshaw and Keith Gaskill
Green Clean How: “Environmental” Is Remediation? Environmental impact due to historical drycleaning practices is not a rarity. In fact, it’s common to find drycleaning solvents in the soil, groundwater and vapor under and around current and former drycleaning facilities. A big part of our job is to figure out the means to best remediate the […]
Cleaning Textiles With Hydrocarbon Solvents, Part One: Everett Childers
What is this new solvent we keep hearing about? Isoparaffin? Hydrocarbon? Petroleum? Stoddard? 140F? Gas? I guess it depends on when you entered into the industry. This “new” solvent was the very beginning of the drycleaning industry, as we know it. It comes from the ground as crude oil; it is then refined and cleaned […]