News & Views

• The great winter warm-up
• Lawsuits seek to stop OSHA rule
• For NCA, it's more than just a new year
• Street's to distribute DF-2000
• GreenEarth reports results of tests
• Registration opens for Clean Show
• Nominations open for IFI service awards
• Editorial: Happy New Year -- we hope
• Editorial: Putting the "care" in garment care
• Building a company with Pride
• Counting the votes in drycleaning
• Telling the truth about drycleaning

Around the US

• MidAtlantic
• Virginia tries voluntary remediaton
• Midwest
• Sadler, Yellen on association slates
• Two openings on IFI board
• MILD heads to Aruba
• Northeast
• Seitz offers service
• NCA prepares for Albany Day
• South
• SEFA seeks volunteers
• Charlie Hacker retires -- again
• SouthWest
• NEFA joins SDA for Arizona convention
• Courses offered in Texas
• West
• WSDLA adds new board members, plans seminars
• CARB classes in San Diego

Columns

• Al Robson: Stake out your place in the future
• Dennis McCrory: Be somebody to your customers
• Frank Lucenta: Spray finishing painted leather
• Frank Kollman: Investigating sexual harassment
• Stan Golomb: Guerrilla warfare in drycleaning
• Don Desrosiers: The use and misuse of collar cones
• Ray Colucci: What drycleaners should be doing
• Stan Caplan: training is the basis of success

People

• Mayberry departs FLARE
• Sattler joins Pepin
• Swan names Dudzik VP
• Randolph takes American Laundry post
• Lieberman to distribute EZ Products
• Steiner-Atlantic honored by White Conveyors

Information Central

• Low temp shirt laundering
• Applicant assessment tools
• Labeling, heat sealing and mending
• Drop-off and delivery boxes
• Drycleaning machines described
• Odor control in detergent
• Check valves