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Tour of Clean Show 2025

Clean Show was held from August 23–26 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. It was the first Clean Show in three years

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Maintenance of water separator

The water separator is the one common component of the following pieces of drycleaning equipment: reclaiming tumblers, stills, muck cookers, and most vapor adsorbers. Each

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Steam trap maintenance

We all know how rising energy and supply costs continue to gnaw away at the bottom line. Controlling these costs has never been more vital

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Clean Show Podcast

You surely figured this out a long time ago.  If you’re a columnist in a trade publication, you don’t get to write about current events. 

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Dyeing fabrics

There are many dyes available for wholesale dyeing but for individual dyeing of fabrics I recommend Rit dyes. Rit dyes can be obtained in most

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Dry- and Wetside spotting

Dryside agents (solvents) are used to help remove any stain containing pigment, oil-soluble dye, grease, wax, oil, and/or plastic. Dryside spotting agents will not set

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