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Over 5,000 professional cleaners and coin laundry owners from all over the USA and Korea are expected to attend the Cleaners & Launderers Expo USA 2006 from June 16 to 18.

The event, which is sponsored by the Federation of Korean Dry Cleaners Association, will be held at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, NJ.

The exhibit hall will feature some of the latest technological innovations the industry has to offer. It will be open to the general public from noon to 6 p.m. on Friday, June 16, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, June 17 and 18.

Also during the weekend, FKDA will host several educational sessions, which will be free to all attendees. The first will begin on Friday morning at 9 a.m. It will cover wetcleaning and be presented by Rudie Smit. He will offer wetcleaning seminars on the following two days, as well, starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday and 8:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Many of the seminars will be repeated so cleaners can adjust their schedules accordingly.

On Friday, David Jang will present a seminar at 10 a.m. entitled “BNB is Here to Help You Get a Loan.” He will speak on the same subject again the following day at 10 a.m. Also on Friday in the 10 a.m. slot, cleaners can see a separate informative session covering the topic of “EM Cleaning System and Technology” by Robert Lee. He will repeat his seminar on Saturday at 10 a.m. and Sunday at 9:30 a.m.

Jay Kwon will present a Saturday session on “Environmental Consulting for Dry Cleaners at 10 a.m. and a Sunday session at 9:30 a.m.

There will be two new seminars on Sunday. The topic of “Rynex” will be examined at 9:30 a.m. Simultaneously, there will be a seminar on “Proposed NJ Regulations Banning PERC for Dry Cleaning.”

To register for the show, visit its official site at www.clexpousa.com and click on the “Attendee” link at the top of the homepage, then click on “Online Registration” and follow the instructions.

Cleaners can also find a “Hotel and Travel Information” link on the page for attendees. The show’s headquarters is the Sheraton Edison Hotel at 125 Raritan Center Parkway in Edison.

For more information, visit the site or contact FKDA by calling (718) 729-8825.

FKDA was established in 1984 as non-profit organization representing 30,000 Korean-American drycleaners throughout the United States. It now has 33 local branches coast to coast in the U.S. as well as Canada and is growing rapidly.