The drycleaning procedures do not vary from perc cleaning other than there is not nearly as much chance of a dye migration or dye bleeding from garments. It is also rare that a garment cleaned in hydrocarbon solvent will damage or destroy beads or sequins. Therefore, classification is more by garment weight and drying time […]
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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 […]
Greeting… And Other Changes In Business – Everett Childers
To those who know me or have read my columns in another trade publication for the past twenty-two years, it is good to see you again. For those new to the industry, I greet you and tell you that this is a fun and exciting business to be in. Well, maybe not so fun right […]