News & Views

• Congress kills OSHA ergonomics standard
• Getting ready for the prom
• Cleaning machine tax credit bill is expanded
• Highlights of the Tax Credit Bill
• P&G, Whirlpool eye possibilities for home 'drycleaning' appliance
• Nominations needed for IFI awards
• Assessing cancer risk and perc exposure
• ATMI cuts dues, staff as it downsizes
• Dow service helps cleaners monitor in-plant perc levels
• Clean show plans are coming together
• IFI's Clean Show schedule
• Spring courses in full swing at IFI
• Bridging the retirement gender gap
• Editorial: Regulatory and other burdens
• Editorial: Another round of 'home drycleaning'

Around the US

• Midatlantic
• MAC announces wide range of free programs for 2001
• Midwest
• MILD launches into spring with educational offerings
• Northeast
• Coats for Kids program collects over 32,000 coats
• NCA sets dates for trade show in New Jersey
• Seats expected to fill fast for NCA's Night at Shea
• NCA tallies garment problems
• Southwest
• CLA's three-day workshop proves successful
• South
• SEFA selects Savannah for 2002 show
• Nealis, Hargrove plan Florida visits
• LMDLA cleaners "get on the boat" in Gulfport
• NC study group for alternative technologies set
• SEFA hosts upcoming educational opportunities
• Spotting seminars come to MS, LA
• West
• Waste firm faces Colorado indictments
• Purpletie.com hangs it up
• Sacramento MFMI group sets 2nd meeting
• CCA offers spotting courses
• Two Oregon seminars cover stain removal
• Online network of cleaners adds So. Cal. cities

Columns

• Stan Caplan: Getting control of your quality
• Bill Bogus: Is anyone really there?
• Ray Colucci: It's time for the tough to get going
• Don Desrosiers: Should you go looking for trouble?
• Dan Eisen: Lace is making a fashion statement
• Stan Golomb: While many fail, some will succeed
• Frank Kollman: Avoid these basic labor law pitfalls
• Frank Lucenta: Applying stain repellent and sizing
• Dennis McCrory If you must fire someone, do it right
• Alan Robson: The 80/20 rule is not just a theory

People

• Rechnitz lead seminars in Japan
• Welsh named by Realstar
• Multimatic promotes Velli
• New home for Hamilton
• Toll-free info in Korean

Information Central

• Customer retention
• All-purpose ink stain remover
• Labeling and bar coding product line
• Injectable sizing
• Perc detergent
• High efficiency water heaters
• Stain removal video in Spanish
• Stain repellent for leather
• Compressed air pressure booster
• New brochure describes cleaning machine line