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CONKLIN, NY — Cleaner’s Supply has introduced a way for cleaners to promote their efforts to be environmentally friendly with reusable Go Green Converta Bags.

The bags assure customers that the cleaner is thinking “green,” while providing a versatile counter bag that converts into a garment bag for pick-up orders.

Whether cleaners give them away or sell them at the counter, customers will be encouraged to bring their orders back to a “cleaner who cares.”

DRAPER, UT— SPOT Business Systems has released SPOT version 5.0 which includes many new productivity features that drycleaners can use to better control their businesses and contain costs.

Major enhancements available in SPOT version 5.0 include: Customer Relations Manager and Issues Manager; redesigned and enhanced automated conveyor interface; enhanced credit card payment processing interface with full PCI certification; simplified SPOT installation and software update process; and enhanced Giftcard support.

Other features include new automated long-term data archiving utility; support for new ProductionTrac terminals used to track items/invoices in production and PPOH for pressers.

Also included are enhanced functionality for the RouteTrac portable cell phone-based terminal; enhanced support for CustomerConnect and Web Site Manager web-based tools for customer account access by the drycleaning customer; enhanced A/R functionality; enhanced disclaimer functionality; enhanced user access security; new reports including enterprise, customer profile, and CustomerConnect reports.

All clients hosted from the SPOT Business Systems commercial hosting facility will be automatically upgraded to SPOT version 5.0 before the end of this month.

Pine Grove, PA — Paradigm Products, which has been manufacturing private label drycleaning chemicals for almost two decades, is now offering its detergents and spotters directly to cleaners.

The company’s dryside detergents include ParaTerg Conc which can be used in either perc or hydrocarbon systems and allows for low concentrations and short run times. ParaTerg Cat is a cationic product that provides anti-static and anti-lint attributes.

ParaTex P is a concentrated detergent for perc with dry sizing built in. It also brightens while cleaning. Its counterpart for hydrocarbon is ParaTex H.

The company's InjecTerg Ultra is a low-cost drycleaning soap for injection use with either perc or hydrocarbon.

Wetside detergents include ParaTerg LS, a concentrated product that allows for low usage with good cleaning ability. Parabrite O is a drycleaning detergent that uses the cleanign power of a 100-percent product with optical brighteners.

EcoBrite is a low-cost wetside power detergent.

The wetside softener ParaSoft is a liquid product that provides soft hand and a good smell.

The company also offers a line of drycleaning spotting chemicals including POG, ink removers, protein stain removers, tannin stain removers and general purpose and collar and cuff stain removers. Paradigm also offers water repellents, dye stripper and flame retardants.

TULSA, OK — Spot Magic-Green is an environmentally friendly POG spotter from Royaltone that rinses wet or dry in wetcleaning, laundry and drycleaning with no oily rings!

Spot Magic-Green provides the spotting power of a heavy-duty full-strength POG but without rings, streaks, swales, graying, reduction in filter life and oily residues. It works on oil-based stains like tar, shoe polish, wax, paint, varnish, rubber, resins, cosmetics, lipstick and ball point pen ink, oxidized oils such as salad oil, fish oil, linseed oil and contaminated grease and oil.

Spot Magic-Green works well with silk spotters like Silk Magic and prespotters like Spot Plus for wetcleaning cloth and Ultra Spot for drycleaning cloth as well as with Leather Magic for wetcleaning leather and Spot Wiz-Wet for drycleaning leather.

TULSA, OK — Topog-E Gasket Co. is offering a free technical specifications and usage guide with information about boiler safety and maintenance. Also free is a slide rule that charts steam temperature versus pressure.

The company formulates and mixes its own rubber and manufactures molder rubber handhole and manhole gaskets for steam, hot water boilers, water heaters, softeners, dearators, make-up tanks and other selected pressure vessels.

Topog-E gaskets seal quickly, completely and prevent seepage, corrosion and pitting. They also peel off easily, leaving clean surfaces for inspection.

COLD SPRING, KY — Sanitone, a Division of Fabritec International, has introduced its 2008 Sanitone Business Building Ad System Marketing Kit, which is available exclusively to Sanitone licensees.

This year’s marketing kit promotes a “Prepare To Win” attitude led by John Jordan president of Fabritec

In the kit, he gives a “Winning Game Plan for Success in 2008” with tips to Sanitone licensees. In addition, the kit illustrates designs for postcards, door hangers, folded cards, stuffers, certificates, brochures, posters, loyalty cards and point-of-sale materials that can be customized and printed.

The marketing kit includes many new designer photos and custom photographs.

Fabritec International manufactures drycleaning, laundry, spotting, restoration and professional wetcleaning products under the Sanitone, Stamford and Fabritec names.