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How
Does Your Dry Cleaner Clean Your Clothes?
The
most common process to Professionally clean garments is Wetcleaning
and Dry cleaning. Dry cleaning is carried out in different types
of solvents like Petroleum Solvent : Valclean, MTO, Pure Dry, DF2000
etc…Chlorinated Solvents: Perchloroethylene, Trichloroethylene etc…and
the newer solvents like Rynex, n-Propylbromide, GreenEarth, Liquid
Carbon Dioxide etc… Dry cleaning is recommended for garments that
are likely to loose color or shape in the cleaning process and maintains
the "Like New" appearance of the garments.
Professional Wetcleaning is the most
effective environmentally friendly cleaning process without the
risk due to harsh chemicals. All the chemicals used are biodegradable
and environment friendly. With the arrival of new Professional Wetcleaning
Chemicals, and equipment most garments that required Dry Cleaning
can now be safely Wetcleaned without any danger of loss of color,
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What
is Dry Cleaning?
Dry cleaning uses solvents to remove soil
and stains from fabric. In fact, the term "dry cleaning" is misleading;
it is called dry cleaning because the fluid contains little or no
water and does not penetrate and swell the fibers as water does.
Among the advantages of dry cleaning is its ability to dissolve
grease and oils in a way that water cannot. Dry cleaning helps to
return garments to a "like-new" condition using precautions to prevent
shrinkage, loss of color, and fabric distortion.
The dry cleaning process begins with spotting: the pretreatment
of spots and stains using special spotting chemicals. The garments
are then loaded into a machine resembling an oversized front-loading
home washer. Throughout the cleaning process the fluid is continuously
filtered and periodically distilled to remove suspended and dissolved
soils of the cleaned garments.
Today, the solvent used by almost 90% of all dry cleaners is Perchloroethylene,
commonly known as "Perc." It is completely non-flammable and non-combustible,
of relatively low toxicity, and can be efficiently reused and recycled.
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What
is Professional Wetcleaning?
Wetcleaning starts with the
pretreatment of spots and stains using special cleaning agents.
Wetcleaning is the process of removing soils from garments and other
textiles using Professional Wetcleaning Equipment and Chemicals
in water. This professional method helps prevent shrinkage, loss
of color, and fabric distortion. [ Top
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What
is laundering?
Special detergents, additives,
and finishes sets commercial laundering apart from home laundering.
This process enables your cleaner to offer consistent quality shirts
at reasonable prices. [ Top ]
Is
your Dry Cleaner Environmental Friendly?
With stricter Environmental laws your Dry
Cleaner has had to change. The traditional solvent of choice was
one of the various Petroleum solvents, However because these solvents
are flammable and result in depletion of our natural resources there
was a shift to the Chlorinated solvents which are non flammable
and have excellent properties for Dry Cleaning. Recent studies have
indicated that these solvents have ozone depletion properties besides
they may have some harmful effect on human health, this has resulted
in a shift to the newer solvents like Rynex, GreenEarth and Liquid
Carbon dioxide and to Professional Wetcleaning. [
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