Current Position: John LaRocca is the founder and president of LaRocca Integrated Solutions, Inc. His company is headquartered in Westlake Village, California and assists businesses from dry cleaners to restaurants (and everything in between) with merchant processing, credit card terminals, POS leasing and consulting in related services. Buying In: In 1965, LaRocca’s father was presented […]
Nowadays everyone in business wants to be considered environmentally “friendly” or “green.” The retail dry cleaning industry is no exception. In fact, given the ecological concern over perc, actual or perceived, the retail dry cleaning trade has been at the forefront of the green movement. However, there is another aspect of an environmentally friendly operation […]
On Friday, February 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the final health assessment for perchloroethylene (Perc) to the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) database. EPA’s IRIS is a human health assessment program that evaluates risk information on effects that may result from exposure to environmental contaminants. Perc is a chemical solvent widely […]
