Many small business owners or drycleaners and manufacturing companies know that old general liability policies can provide a defense, even an indemnity, against environmental claims. The net effect of such a defense can translate into payment and funding of necessary site investigation, legal, and remediation costs. To put it into business terms, a dry cleaner […]
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Why Dry Cleaning Marketers Procrastinate By: Allan J. Katz
Dry cleaners tell me all the time, “I don’t have time to market my business…I’m too busy pulling clothes out of the washer…people find us on their own, we don’t do marketing…” With 15 years of experience helping dry cleaners prosper in ways they hadn’t dreamed possible, I’m well aware of the harsh truth in […]
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 […]