December 2006

 

Editorial
7     And yet it moves!

Expo Overview
8     The World's Cleaning and Hygiene Show supports 'Médecins Sans Frontières' (Doctors Without Borders)

10   Expo Detergo: First-hand reports
      Top-of-mind impressions of Europe's #1 Show

Technologies
14  The fashion world and garment care

18  Some handy hints on chemicals for spotting and wet-cleaning

24  How to determine the residual value of used textiles

30  An attention-grabbing, new source of energy for laundries: direct gas heating

Trade Info
34   1st IMESA meeting day

Market
36     AUIL (Allied Association of Washing Industries) presents First Industry Report (5th part)

48   What's on in Europe?
Survey of EU laundries and cleaners.

Trade Info
56   Kannegiesser logistic systems for garments

Let's talk
60   After Expo Detergo International

Trade Info
63   Italsec: Perini Monica: a landmark laundry in Milan

Company News
64   Raro: "Emotions". Raro 2007 calendar
65   Ecolab Oxybrite and Connexx – Saving without cutting back on safety

66 Fimas celebrates 20 years in business at ExpoDetergo 2006

67  Falvo: drapery

Guide to the ideal workshop for launderers and dry-cleaners

72 Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

74 Advertisers' directory

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November 2006

 

Editorial
7    Why should only a handful of us do the talking?

Expo Overview
8     The World's Cleaning and Hygiene Show supports 'Médecins Sans Frontières' (Doctors Without Borders)

Meetings
10  Beyond cleanliness – Rome, 5 December 2006

12   Progress on labels – 12 December 2006

Technologies
16  All about leather decorations and accessories on textile garments22   Germany introduces innovative CO2 chainTrade Info
27  www.market-wash.com. Only a mouse click away. Why wait?

Market
29  Standard contracts for the private sector

32  AUIL (Allied Association of Washing Industries) presents First Industry Report (4th part)
             
Trade Info
45  Mark: the road to success in the self-service industry

Special

Industrial Laundry Special: Logistic Systems

Read about it
52  Perc …on probationStandards
56   Quality cleaning

Let's talk
59  Where are we going?
                                    
Trade Info
61   Italsec - L.D.E.: a fast-moving contract company

News from the Associations
62   Assosecco's battle  - "One out of two labels is not telling the truth"
 
 A revamped look
64    Fish in the laundry

Company News
65  Falvo: restaurant linen

66 Foreign Press News

71  Guide to the ideal workshop for launderers and dry-cleaners

Competitions
72  "Look out for the ad" as part of the Detergo 2006 Calendar – The winners, the drop-outs and those… who enjoyed a fantastic trip.

76 Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

78 Advertisers' directory

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October 2006

 

Editoriale/Editorial

7      Ladies & Gentleman… EXPO DETERGO INTERNATIONAL!

Panorama Fiere/Shows

8      A tutti i visitatori di EXPO DETERGO INTERNATIONAL 2006: Ingresso gratis, alberghi scontati, elenco espositori….

For all EXPO DETERGO INTERNATIONAL 2006 visitors: free entrance, special hotel offers

20     Milano: da bere … e da mangiare

Milan: drinking … and eating places

Tecnologie/Technologies
30     Linee Guida AUIL per la realizzazione del "Manuale pratico per l'applicazione dei requisiti previsti dalla norma UNI EN 14065/2004" – 3a parte

40     Il percloro e l'acqua = amici o nemici?
Perc and water = friends or foes?

52     Le difettosità più frequenti riscontrate sui tessili lavati industrialmente: cause e rimedi
Defects most often found in industrially laundered fabrics: causes and remedies

Speciale/Special
65     The best of the best

Mercato
102   Provate un po' ad immaginare… - Benetton in lavanderia

Parliamone tra noi

106   Vù cumprà?

Notizie dalle Associazioni

108  Assosecco: aggiornamento Professionale - 17 settembre 2006

Notizie dalle aziende

110   Ecolab igiane a 360°
112   Falvo: lava in acqua come si lava a secco Informazione commerciale
114   Firbimatic presenta TRIO. - La maggior innovazione degli ultimi 20 anni.
Firbimatic presents TRIO. - The greatest innovation of the last 20 years.

120 Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

122 Advertisers' Directory

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September 2006

 

Editorial

Just over a month

Expo Overview

To all EXPO DETERGO INTERNATIONAL 2006 visitors: free entrance, special hotel rates

Technologies

AUIL Guidelines for the  "Tutorial on applying the requirements under UNI EN 14065/2004" – 2nd part

General safety in a laundry and drycleaners' shop

Acrylic

Market
AUIL presents its first Industry Report – Part 3

Trade Info

Renzacci…. washing

Specials
Accessories and consumables
Wet cleaning

Trade Info
Falvo: when garment washing becomes a business opportunity that fires up profits and enhances well-being in the laundry

Let's talk

Are your vacations over?

Trade Info

Italsec

Trade Info
Primus

Company News

Falvo: all-purpose degreaser
Ecolab

Trade Info

Prima Folder: folders

What the experts say

The promoter's window

Foreign Press NewsReceived and Published

More on builders 

Expo Overview

42nd week of communities: a wealth of opportunities

Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

Advertisers' Directory

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July / August 2006

 

Editoriale/EDITORIAL

7      Com'è difficile cambiare!
         The challenge of change!

Panorama Fiere/SHOWS

9      A tutti i visitatori di EXPO DETERGO INTERNATIONAL 2006: Ingresso gratis, alberghi scontati 

For all EXPO DETERGO INTERNATIONAL 2006 visitors -  Free entrance, special hotel offers

Mercato/MARKET
18     Indagine su "soddisfazione e aspettative dei consumatori delle tintolavanderie" Le conclusioni della Ricerca sulle esigenze del consumatore - Tintolavanderie: immagine e servizi
         Survey on "satisfaction and expectations among dry cleaner/laundry consumers" - Findings of a survey on consumer needs - Dry cleaners and laundries: image and services

24     L'Ente Bilaterale delle Lavanderie Industriali presenta il Primo Rapporto sul settore 2a parte
         AUIL presents its First Report on "Industrial Laundries" Part 2

Tecnologie/TECHNOLOGIES

40     Distillazione del Percloroetilene - Perché, come, quando e quanto distillare 

Perc Distillation - Why, how, when and how much to distill

Speciali/Special Report

50 Novità nelle lavatrici a secco

The latest dry-cleaning machinery

62 Lavatrici, lavacentrifughe e lavacontinue

Washers, washer-extractors, batch washers

Parliamone tra noi
71     … questa lavanderia ha distrutto la mia famiglia …

Informazione Commerciale/Advertorial
72     Serie 6 - La nuova sfida di Girbau 

6 series - meeting the challenge

Notizie dalle aziende 

78     Falvo: salva merinos

80 Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

82 Advertisers' Directory

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June 2006

 

Editorial

7      2006: the year of the devil or turning point?Expo Overview

8  For all EXPO DETERGO INTERNATIONAL 2006 visitors: free entrance, special hotel offers

Technologies

18     Textile sanitation: management of biocontamination in compliance with the UNI EN ISO 14065 standard (RABC: Risk Analysis and Biocontamination Control)
                                                                            
24     AUIL guidelines for the preparation of the  "Hands-on manual for the application of requirements as per the UNI EN 14065/2004 standard" – 1st part

Standards

31     Work Safety

Market

32     Survey on "Customer satisfaction and expectations in laundries and cleaner's"  - Laundries: let's keep up with the times – Customer satisfaction

40     LAVANET: on-line dry-cleaning – home delivery organized through the Internet

44     Add-on services at dry-cleaner's: waterproofing, finishing, sizing

Trade Info

50     Silc DocetLet's Talk

53     Self-criticism

News from the Associations

54     Assosecco – Special credit terms for members and their families

58     AUIL presents its first report on "industrial laundries"

Trade Info

62     "Lindo System- Wet cleaning" new machines introduced – Cleaning made easier

Company News

65     Falvo: a special program for merino woo

66     Ecolab: HY.P.E.R. – R.A.B.C. system

70     Imesa: Imesa Easy Wash self-service laundries

72   Foreign Press News

76   Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

78     Advertisers' directory

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May 2006

 

Editorial

Hard times for extra-small companies

Expo Overview

Expo Detergo International 2006: hints and tips for people planning to attend

Technologies

Technical tables and diagrams - Analysis of steam costs for a drycleaner

Textile safety. What strategies?

Spotting basics

Acrylic: what it is, how it's made and how it should be cared for

Energy saving – The power of knowledge - An overview of the right equipment

Market
Survey of "satisfaction and expectations of laundry and drycleaner customers'" – A forced choice"– 2nd part

Management

From cost calculation to business reporting in an industrial laundry

Specials
Ironing boards and irons

Let's talk

Election talk…

News from the Associations

Assosecco – Update meetings

Industrial laundries: projects and perspectives– Rome, 20 June 2006

Company News

ECOLAB technologies to reduce consumption levels

Falvo: wet cleaning made easy
VACUUM PUMP SPA has been manufacturing vacuum and shrink-wrap packagers for over 40 years

Received and Published

Who's scared of innovation?

Foreign Press News

Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

Advertisers' Directory

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April 2006

 

Editoriale/Editorial

6      Il problema del tempo
The time factor

Panorama Fiere/Shows

7      Expo Detergo International 2006: alle griglie… di partenza

Expo Detergo: at the … starting gate

Tecnologie/Technologies

16     Inconvenienti  nella  distillazione
Troubles during distillation

20     Studio dell'effetto degli ossidanti sui materiali tessili lavati industrialmente
The effect of oxidizing agents on industrially cleaned textile products

Aziende in vetrina/Companies in the spotlight

34     Imesa: crescere ogni anno, in tecnologia e in dimensioni

Imesa: growing every year, in both technology and sizeCalendario 2006
40     I vincitori di "Caccia all'annuncio"

Mercato/Market

42 Indagine su "soddisfazione e aspettative dei consumatori delle tintolavanderie" - Sveglia, ragazzi!
Survey on "satisfaction and expectations among dry
cleaner/laundry consumers" - Wake up, guys!

52    Attività e mercato delle lavanderie industriali
Rental laundries: activities and market

Speciale/Special Report

60     Spugne e biancheria piana

Towels and flat linen

Parliamone tra noi

69     Parole in libertà 


Notizie dalle Associazioni
70     Assosecco: Analisi dei costi

Notizie dalle aziende 

72     Le soluzioni ECOLAB per le lavanderie industriali

74     Falvo: lavare senza presmacchiare
75     Renzacci: 43° Meeting Forze Vendita Italia

Notizie dalle Associazioni
76   A Gubbio sventolano le bandiere del pulito
2° Congresso Assofornitori

80 Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

82 Advertisers' Directory

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March 2006

 

Editorial

7      Expo Detergo and Clean: two fairs for two different markets

Expo Overview

8      Expo Detergo: why in Milan?

Standards

16     The rules and regulations for the professional laundering and drycleaning practice

What the experts say
22     Some guidelines on Law No. 84 governing the laundry and drycleaning profession

Technologies

26 Technical tables and diagrams - Analysis of steam costs for a drycleaner

28 Study of the correlation between process variables, soil removal and textile damage

34     Wool

40     Microwave drying

Market
42     Coin-op laundries

Marketing

48     The importance of good neighbors – The most effective advertising is "by word of mouth" – But which mouth?

Success stories
52     Lucia Bartoli: enthusiasm and innovation

Special
56     Transportation, garment storage and order reassembly in laundries and drycleaners

63 Economic News

News from the Associations

67     Assosecco – Insurance Agreement

Let's talk
69     And nobody talks

Company News 

70     Falvo: white & color
71     Ralco Identification of packaged garments

72     Ecolab: effective detergents and reliable dosing equipment

Received and Published
74     Assofornitori and bad politicians

Laws

77     Safety at work

80 Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

82 Advertisers' Directory

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February 2006

 

Editorial

7 Cleaning and laundering law approved at last!

Expo Overview

8 Expo Detergo International: the reasons behind its growing success

Standards

14 Law for our industry finally approved

Technologies

20 Technical tables and charts: practical data for the dry-cleaner

25 Certain finishing agents can cause problems

27 Flatwork ironing

Market

32 High fashion jeans flee abroad
FRESHTEX: a lost heritage

36 The Vecchia Milano" cleaner's shop owned by Gabriella PlatèThe discreet charm of quality

Management

40 The virtue of being pleasant or very, very patient (2nd part)

48 The competition of the 'naked table'

Trade Info

50 Imesa's wet clean system– satisfy your customer!

Special

54 Downs and blankets

Let's talk

59 Should Zen Buddhism become our philosophy?

News from the Associations

60 Assosecco: meeting with cleaners and launderers --11 December 2005

62 C.N.A.: from "working to rule" to Gazebos in the street and advocating a law for the industry

Company News

65 Falvo: color stains on quilts

66 Trevil's new generation of steam generators

68 Ecolab: Good solutions for workwear

Received and Published

70 The customer's leverage is the supplier's weakness

72 Builders used in dry-cleaning don't remove stains? What's new about that!

74 Foreign Press News

80 Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

82 Advertisers' Directory

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January 2006

 

Editoriale/Editorial

7 Verso un mondo più "rosa"
Brightening prospects For Women

Panorama Fiere/Shows

8 Expo Detergo International 2006: una Fiera irrinunciabile. Lo dicono gli espositori
Expo Detergo International 2006: a Fair you won't want to miss.
So the exhibitors say

Tecnologie/Technologies

14 Effetto dei prodotti antimacchiaThe Effect of Stain-Proof Products

22 Inconvenienti nel lavaggio a secco
Troubles associated with the drycleaning

30 Tessili in puro cotone e misti per lavanderie industriali: vantaggi e svantaggi nell'impiego
The advantages and disadvantages of fabrics in pure cotton and blends in industrial laundries

Mercato/Market

38 Mercato degli abiti da lavoro - Maggior sensibilità, poche disponibilitàThe Workwear Market - Greater Sensitivity, Scarce Investment Possibilities

Gestione/Management
42 La virtù dell'accoglienza o della pazienza infinita
The virtue of being pleasant or very, very patient

Speciale/Special Report

50 I sistemi automatici di stiratura: un breve panorama sull'offertaAutomatic Ironing Systems: a Brief Overview

54 L'automazione nello stiro (manichini, topper, presse, ecc)
Automated Ironing (finishers, toppers, presses, etc.)

Lavanderia industriale/Industrial Laundry

66 Stiratura e piegatura
Ironing and folding

Parliamone tra noi
71 È sempre la solita storia

Notizie dalle Associazioni
72 Associazione Unitaria Industrie di Lavanderia alla riscossa - A febbraio la Conferenza Programmatica per l'AUIL del futuro

Notizie dalle aziende

76 Falvo: senza presmacchiatura camice pulite…

77 Ecolab: Analisi microbiologiche e prodotti specifici per la disinfezione: sistemi HY.P.E.R. - R.A.B.C.

80 Members of the Textile Care Suppliers' Association

82 Advertisers' Directory

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