Advanced Dryceaning course at DLI this month
The 2008 class schedule continues this month at the Drycleaning and Laundry Institute’s School of Drycleaning Technology with the first installment of this year’s Advanced Drycleaning course.
The advanced course is for those who have completed the one-week introductory
course. It emphasizes specialty fabrics and fiber identification; advanced
stain removal procedures and bleaches; finishing blouses, dresses, ties,
pleats, pile fabrics, silks, and rayons; wetcleaning; solvents, detergents,
moisture, filtration, and distillation; and troubleshooting the drycleaning
system.
The course also covers regulations and care labeling, plant layout and workflow,
customer service and business management.
The upcoming session is Feb. 4 to 15. The advanced course will be offered three
more times this year beginning on April 28, July 28 and Oct. 27.
Tuition is $1,149 for DLI members and $1,649 for non-members.
Next month DLI will offer the first of two courses on the practical application
of cleaning and stain removal. The one-week course will begin on March 10. A
second offering starts Sept. 15.
The curriculum includes fibers and fabrics; principles of drycleaning; solvents;
detergents and moisture; filtration and distillation; drying and vapor
recovery; stain removal agents and stain removal tools, and more.
The cost is $695 for members and $1,049 for non-members.
The next one-week introductory course will begin April 21. Later sessions will begin July 21 and Oct. 20. Tuition is $695 per member and
$1,049 for non-members.
For more information about anything related to the School of Drycleaning
Technology, contact DLI Registrar Deanna Williams, (800) 638-2627, ext. 1603,
or dwillisams@ifi.org@ifi.org.
PDCA inducts officers, sets sites on 2008 Expo
With a new year comes a new crop of officers for the Pennsylvania and Delaware
Cleaners Association.
Beginning the 2008-2009 term as president was Stuart Outten of Capitol Cleaners
in Dover, DE. In fact, he is the first person from the First State to hold that
position for PDCA.
Previously, he served the association in the capacity of treasurer, vice
president and membership chairman.
Other new officers for the new term include: Dave Beatty of Murrysville Cleaners
in Murrysville, PA, who will be vice president, and Tom Chido of Chido’s Dry Cleaners in Erie, PA, who will be treasurer.
Filling the secretary position will be Gary Cuda, owner of Prosperity Cleaners
of Pittsburgh, PA.
Dale Kaplan of Kaplan’s Careful Cleaners in Camp Hill, PA, will continue in his role as vice president
for government relations, and David Rosenblatt of Green Valley Cleaners in N.
Huntingdon, PA, will remain in his position as budget chair.
The new officers hope that PDCA’s Drycleaning and Laundry Expo 2008 will be its most successful exhibition ever.
The event will be held at the Atlantic City Convention Center later this year
from Oct. 25-26.
So far, PDCA has opened booth sales and the response has been excellent with an
exceptionally large number reserved in the first few weeks.
Currently, the association is planning a slate of interactive educational
seminars that will take place each morning during the show.
For more information and booth space application forms, visit PDCA’s web site online at www.pdclean.org.
PA Cleaners receive state energy grants
Four drycleaners were among the first batch of 2007 recipients of Pennsylvania’s Small Business Advantage Grants.
The state program provides a 50 percent match of up to $7,500 for new equipment
or processes that help reduce energy consumption, promote pollution prevention,
and increase profitability.
This year’s grants will leverage almost $1.5 million in private investments overall.
One winner was Norge Village Dry Cleaners of Lycoming County. They were awarded
$7,500 for high-efficiency shirt-finishing equipment.
Another winning plant of Lycoming County was Faxon Cleaners, which received
$7,500 for a high-efficiency boiler with zone controls to conserve energy.
Also applying for a high-efficiency boiler system to conserve energy was Brite
Cleaners of Monroe County. They won $7,500, as well.
Lastly, from Montgomery County, Village Cleaners was awarded $3,500 for a
waste-heat economizer to capture and reuse process heat.
In addition to the four drycleaners who applied and won Small Business Advantage
Grants, eleven coin-ops and laundries also received grants, mostly for more
efficient washers, dryers and boilers.
