International Home Textile Magazine – April’17
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This cleaning system aims to allow wet cleaning of outerwear<br />
that according to its care label should only be<br />
dry-cleaned using organic solvents, without any negative<br />
effects or even damage to the garment. The main usual<br />
negative effects or damage caused by wet cleaning processes<br />
are dimensional changes of textiles <strong>–</strong> changes<br />
which often make further use of the garment impossible<br />
for the owner.<br />
Until now, wet cleaning technology was, unfortunately, only usable for<br />
textiles suitable to be washed in water. The majority of such textiles are<br />
labeled with the “washing tub” care symbol. © GINETEX<br />
Experts of the Hohenstein Institute (Bönnigheim/<br />
Germany) evaluated more than 1,000 different garments<br />
in a wide range of material composition labeled<br />
as “cleanable in organic solvents only”. The results did<br />
not show any undue deviation of the original dimensions<br />
as documented upon receipt of the garments before<br />
they were returned to the customer.<br />
Therefore, the requested dimensional stability of the<br />
newly developed wet cleaning system was successfully<br />
approved by the Hohenstein experts.<br />
BÖNNIGHEIM - Happy Co. Ltd. has developed a<br />
wet cleaning system for outerwear, which cleans customers’<br />
textiles professionally without having to process<br />
them conventionally, using organic solvents (dry-cleaning).<br />
The methods as well as devices of the “gravity-free<br />
balance wet cleaning system” have obtained several<br />
patents not only in Japan but in European and other<br />
countries.<br />
Cleaning with water is defined as a cleaning procedure<br />
in EN ISO 3175-4:2003 standard and is common practice<br />
in many facilities. EN ISO 3758 allows garment<br />
manufacturers to label their products with care instructions<br />
that include wet cleaning technology.<br />
The wet cleaning care symbol is less commonly used. © GINETEX<br />
The use of water-based cleaning processes in professional<br />
textile care helps to decrease the use of organic<br />
solvents and thus reduces the environmental impact<br />
caused by the emissions associated with the process.
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