News & Views

• To satisfy customers, garment makers want to replace dryclean-only with washable
• Casual and comfortable continue to gain favor
• If lawyers were representing the circus, would they dress like clowns?
• Ergonomics plan comes under fire
• OSHA on small business and ergonomics
• Five more join Barton cosponsors
• The wisdom of his years
• New book covers "The Art of Spotting"
• IFI reports strong response to first offering of CED exams in Korean
• Drycleaning beats Dryel in TV test
• Study says EPA wastes money on Superfund sites cleanups
• Delivery truck sales are on the rise
• IFI board elects Jim Cripe as treasurer
• Clean Show officers begin planning for New Orleans
• New boiler at IFI
• Frankfurt show expects 20,000 visitors
• When the cows come home again
• Living up to the obligation implied by the designation "Mom & Pop"
• Letter to the Editor
• Perc: Why we have it. How to keep it.
• Can you learn from the top guns?
• Editorial: If you knew then what David knows now, would you become a drycleaner?

Around the US

• Midatlantic
• PDCA'S Expo 2000 will feature marketing expert John Graham
• Small business environmental fund opens shop in VA
• Midwest
• Hangers, going West, opens its first plant in Nebraska
• Open house at Haiges Machinery
• Booth sales for ISFA show are past the halfway point
• Schwass leads series of seminars for MILD
• Wetcleaning conference set for June 3-4 in Chicago, IL
• Wisconsin certification program will offer CED, CPD exams in May
• Northeast
• NEFA offering more NY certification classes
• New Jersey legislature revisits Rooney bill
• NCA-I hosts classes at NY school
• NEFA offers May classes
• South central
• Royaltone Academy will hold a two-day class on June 8-9
• Achieving compliance without risk of penalty
• South
• N. Carolina cleaners warned of stepped up plant inspections
• West
• Rechnitz returns to direct NWDCA
• SDDCA hosts CARB classes
• Upcoming classes from CCA

Columns

• Stan Caplan: The lot system vs the day system
• Ray Colucci: Make the most of the tools at hand
• Dan Eisen: Stretch your spandex knowledge
• Stan Golomb: Five sources of drycleaning sales
• Frank Kollman: Who is exempt from overtime?
• Frank Lucenta: A hot head press on suede and leather
• Dennis McCrory: Better late than never? No way!
• Alan Robson: How a route can kill your cash flow

People

• New president and vice presidnet for Rynex
• On-site opens East Coast campus
• Alliance appointments
• Hamilton, Super Laundry in partnership
• Jorgensen named at Girbau

Information Central

• Management software
• Windows-based release of software
• Pamphlet on product use
• Customized vans for delivery service
• Wetcleaning brochure
• High extract front-load washers
• New line of hydrocarbon drycleaning machines
• Carrying hangered clothes
• Improving customer communications
• Annual survey of coin laundry industry
• Machines linked to HQ
• Space saving poly rolls
• Washer specs
• Financing