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 […]
Author: Justin Wente
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 […]
Processing Difficult Stains By: Kenney Slatten
The very nature and purpose of drycleaning/wetcleaning in any solvent is not just for the sole purpose of stain removal. Surprised to hear me say that? Some of you probably are but many of you will (I hope) agree. There is no guarantee of stain removal or 100% successful restoration. Many times it does happen […]