"Imagination supplies the ideas...
Technical knowledge carries them out.''
Thomas Edison
Similar to the time-saving convenience of fast food, might consumers find relief from the mundane chore of doing their laundry?
In February 1993, Garment Care, Inc. asked its home-town neighbor, the U.S. Department of Energy's Kansas City Plant, for some help. Phase One is now complete and the potential for a brand new "Fast Laundry" industry is on the horizon.
An Environmentally Conscious Approach
to Clothes Maintenance
Small Business Initiative Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement/KCP-94-1006
Final Report December 1995
Index
David Porter
Garment Care Inc.
2018 Swift
North Kansas City, MO 64116
816-221-1066
816-221-1067
davidport@aol.com
Tom Hand
Department of Energy, KCP.
thand@KCP.com
George Bohnert
Department of Energy, KCP
Kelly Haley, Amway Corporation
Prepared under contract number DE-ACO4-76-DPOO613
for the United States Department of Energy
Date created: 3/6/96