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THERE’S A MEETING FOR THAT


Spin Cycle Some of the machines at the Clean Show can wash, dry, and fold 12,000 pounds of clothes an hour. Who uses them? Hospitals, prisons, and the military.


The Clean Show June 20–22, 2013


New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center cleanshow.com


Attendees 10,300 Exhibitors 422


Formal Name The World Educational Congress for Laundering and Drycleaning


A Few Session Titles


› “Internet Marketing Success Stories of Coin Laundries”


Dirty Business H


› “Disposables vs. Reusables: Research that quantifies the sus- tainability advantages of napkins, shop towels, and barrier gowns”


› “Alternative Solvents: Which is best for you?”


ow big a deal is keeping things clean? So big that five organiza- tions partner on the biannual


Clean Show, which serves the launder- ing, drycleaning, and textile-services industry: the Association for Linen Management (ALM), the Coin Laundry Association (CLA), Drycleaning Laun- dry Institute (DLI) International, the Textile Care Allied Trades Association (TCATA), and TRSA (the Textile Rental Services Association). “We’re like all association [meetings],”


said John Riddle, president of Riddle & Associates, which produces the Clean Show. “It’s for education. It’s where the industry comes together. It’s network- ing opportunities. It’s where you see new equipment and new technologies.”


Heavy duty “Most people, when they think of the Clean Show, they think of


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going into their laundry room and see- ing those machines. The show weighs over 3 million pounds. We’ve got wash- ing machines there that have got to be picked up with a crane.”


Hot hot hot “We bring our own boil- ers. We hook them up, and we have live steam on the floor. This equipment is actually working. It looks like a spaghetti bowl turned upside-down, you’ve got so much air, water, and steam [pipes] hanging out of the ceiling.”


#What’sNew “We finally got into this century. We had a very strong Web presence. We had live Twitter feeds on the floor. We had a good, strong multi- media interface, which is the first time we’ve done that, and it seems to have worked out very well for us.”


. —Christopher Durso PCMA.ORG


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