Midatlantic News

The Pennsylvania and Delaware Cleaners Association will be continuing to offer several informative meetings in the next few months that focus on plant inspections by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

The meetings give cleaners a chance to meet with regulators and other experts who can help them avoid problems during inspections.

The series will cover several topics, including: what DEP inspectors are discovering in plant inspections; the biggest mistakes cleaners make; and what lessons can be learned from the inspection process.

Attendees can also expect answers to the following questions:

• How does anyone get funding for new equipment?

• What’s coming next?

• What’s this about problem permits?

So far Pennsylvania DEP meetings are scheduled for the following dates and locations in Pennsylvania: March 6 at Gramercy Restaurant in Wilkes Barre; March 14 at the Community College of Allegheny Country in Pittsburgh; March 21 at Leeds Restaurant in Harrisburg; April 1 at Gus’s Crossroads in Allentown; and April 10 at the Marriott West in Philadelphia.

The program is free to the public.

Also coming up in the near future, PDCA will be hosting an IFI Stain Removal Class on May 18 at Joseph Krow Suede and Leather in North Huntingdon, PA. IFI Garment Analyst Chris Allsbrooks will be the guest speaker.

Further down the road, PDCA will present a Customer Service/Problem Garment seminar with IFI in Philadelphia on Oct. 19.

Three PDCA Board of Director meetings have already been planned, as well. They will be in Harrisburg on May 5, Pittsburgh on July 28, and in Harrisburg again on Dec. 8.

The association’s Drycleaning and Laundry Expo 2002 is already scheduled to take place on the weekend of Sept. 21 and 22, at the Atlantic City Convention Center located in Atlantic City, NJ.

PDCA will be hoping to duplicate the success of its Expo 2000, which featured over 325 exhibit booths and more than 2,800 attendees who represented over 1,600 plants.

This year, the exhibit hall’s schedule will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22.

For more information on Expo 2002 or any other upcoming PDCA events, contact the association by calling (215) 830-8495 or (800) 822-7352, or visit www.pdclean.org.