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Hygienically Clean Healthcare TRSA/ Press Department
Hygienically Clean Healthcare
10.04.2017

Crown Health Care Laundry Completes System-Wide Hygienically Clean Certification

Earlier this year, the Pensacola-based operation achieved Hygienically Clean Healthcare certification in its Quitman, Ga. and Columbia, Miss. facilities.
In addition, the Crown Health Care Laundry facilities passed three rounds of outcome-based microbial testing, indicating that their processes are producing Hygienically Clean Healthcare linens and garments and zero presence of harmful bacteria. To maintain their certification, laundry plants must pass quarterly testing including yeast and mold detection to ensure that as laundry conditions change, such as water quality, textile fabric composition and wash chemistry, laundered product quality is consistently maintained.
This process eliminates subjectivity by focusing on outcomes and results that verify textiles cleaned in these facilities meet appropriate hygienically clean standards and BMPs for hospitals, surgery centers, medical offices, nursing homes and other medical facilities.

Earlier this year, the Pensacola-based operation achieved Hygienically Clean Healthcare certification in its Quitman, Ga. and Columbia, Miss. facilities.
In addition, the Crown Health Care Laundry facilities passed three rounds of outcome-based microbial testing, indicating that their processes are producing Hygienically Clean Healthcare linens and garments and zero presence of harmful bacteria. To maintain their certification, laundry plants must pass quarterly testing including yeast and mold detection to ensure that as laundry conditions change, such as water quality, textile fabric composition and wash chemistry, laundered product quality is consistently maintained.
This process eliminates subjectivity by focusing on outcomes and results that verify textiles cleaned in these facilities meet appropriate hygienically clean standards and BMPs for hospitals, surgery centers, medical offices, nursing homes and other medical facilities.


Hygienically Clean Healthcare certification acknowledges laundries’ effectiveness in protecting healthcare operations through testing and inspections that scrutinize quality control procedures in linen and uniform service operations. The Hygienically Clean standard provides for two inspections every three years. OSHA compliance is closely examined, particularly toxic and hazardous substance handling rules governing textiles containing blood and other potentially infectious materials.
Certified laundries use processes, chemicals and BMPs acknowledged by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, American National Standards Institute and others. Introduced in 2012, Hygienically Clean Healthcare brought to North America the international cleanliness standards for healthcare linens and garments used worldwide by the Certification Association for Professional Textile Services and the European Committee for Standardization.
Objective experts in epidemiology, infection control, nursing and other healthcare professions work with TRSA launderers to ensure the certification continues to enforce the highest standards for producing clean healthcare textiles. With 100+ years as the textile services industry's leading business association, TRSA's expertise in laundry BMP development is unmatched.            

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TRSA/ Press Department

Swiss Companies Schoeller Technologies AG/ Press Department
Swiss Companies
08.04.2017

Swiss companies Schoeller and Textilcolor develop revolutionary polyester dyeing

An exciting new development, resulting from a Swiss collaboration between textile manufacturer Schoeller and auxiliaries and dyes specialists at Textilcolor. ecodye is a new auxiliary concept used, in particular, in polyester dyeing processes. The technology accelerates the dyeing process and contributes to cutting costs, while at the same time helping to preserve the environment with a low level of demand on resources.
Less time, less water, less energy – the new ecodye auxiliary concept allows eco-friendly and cost-saving dyeing processes for polyester yarns and piece goods. It shortens the heating phase, thus accelerating process time by more than 30 percent. At the same time, it reduces energy consumption by 20 percent and the water requirement by 25 percent, as the goods can be cleaned in the cooling dye bath.

An exciting new development, resulting from a Swiss collaboration between textile manufacturer Schoeller and auxiliaries and dyes specialists at Textilcolor. ecodye is a new auxiliary concept used, in particular, in polyester dyeing processes. The technology accelerates the dyeing process and contributes to cutting costs, while at the same time helping to preserve the environment with a low level of demand on resources.
Less time, less water, less energy – the new ecodye auxiliary concept allows eco-friendly and cost-saving dyeing processes for polyester yarns and piece goods. It shortens the heating phase, thus accelerating process time by more than 30 percent. At the same time, it reduces energy consumption by 20 percent and the water requirement by 25 percent, as the goods can be cleaned in the cooling dye bath.
In addition, ecodye improves the dyeing levelness in polyester textiles. Spots and dye agglomeration are almost completely avoided, and the precipitation on the goods that arises as a result of polyester oligomers are no longer evident. ecodye provides good shade stability and avoids reproduction problems from batch to batch, thus reducing the rate of double staining and increasing the capacity utilization and productivity of the dyeing mill on a long-term basis.


Following a successful launch phase, ecodye has already been able to provide numerous positive test results. The technology is being used by polyester-processing customers in categories including outdoor, sportswear and technical knitted fabrics, primarily in Europe, South and Middle America, Turkey, Bangladesh and China.            

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Schoeller Swiss companies
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Schoeller Technologies AG/ Press Department

LM Academy im La Martina DACH-Headquarter Press Office La Martina Germany
LM Academy im La Martina DACH-Headquarter
06.04.2017

LM Academy #3 mit Star-Stylistin Laila Hamidi

Düsseldorf, 6. April 2017. Gestern fand die dritte Ausgabe der LM Academy im La Martina DACH-Headquarter statt. Die rund 45 geladenen Gäste aus Mode, Medien und Sport trafen sich zu einem exklusiven Netzwerkabend. Gastrednerin des Abends war die international renommierte Stylistin Laila Hamidi, die kürzlich die “Goldene Maske für Visagistik 2017” gewann. Sie sprach in entspannter Atmosphäre zum Thema “How to be a Fashion Icon”. Gastgeber Bastian Ammelounx, Chef der La Martina Deutschland GmbH, begrüßte unter den Gästen zahlreiche Prominente, wie die Moderatorinnen Nina Moghaddam, Annica Hansen und Jennifer Knäble. Sängerin Kriemhild Siegel sowie Schauspieler Jo Weil verfolgten den Vortrag von Laila Hamidi ebenso interessiert wie Dr. Hermann Bühlbecker, Inhaber der Firma Lambertz. Auch Fußballprofi Maxim Choupo-Moting genoss mit seiner Frau Nevin bei La Martina den Abend abseits des Fußballplatzes.

Düsseldorf, 6. April 2017. Gestern fand die dritte Ausgabe der LM Academy im La Martina DACH-Headquarter statt. Die rund 45 geladenen Gäste aus Mode, Medien und Sport trafen sich zu einem exklusiven Netzwerkabend. Gastrednerin des Abends war die international renommierte Stylistin Laila Hamidi, die kürzlich die “Goldene Maske für Visagistik 2017” gewann. Sie sprach in entspannter Atmosphäre zum Thema “How to be a Fashion Icon”. Gastgeber Bastian Ammelounx, Chef der La Martina Deutschland GmbH, begrüßte unter den Gästen zahlreiche Prominente, wie die Moderatorinnen Nina Moghaddam, Annica Hansen und Jennifer Knäble. Sängerin Kriemhild Siegel sowie Schauspieler Jo Weil verfolgten den Vortrag von Laila Hamidi ebenso interessiert wie Dr. Hermann Bühlbecker, Inhaber der Firma Lambertz. Auch Fußballprofi Maxim Choupo-Moting genoss mit seiner Frau Nevin bei La Martina den Abend abseits des Fußballplatzes.
Unterhaltsam und informativ erzählte die Stylistin aus Afghanistan von ihrer Herkunft und dem eigenen Werdegang, um schließlich aus ihrer Sicht zu schildern, was eine Frau zu einer wahren Stilikone macht. Laila Hamidi ist in der Welt des Celebrity Dressings zuhause und betreute schon zahlreiche glamouröse Events, wie beispielsweise die Filmfestspiele in Cannes, bei denen sie mit einer eigenen Styling-Lounge vertreten war.


“Ich freue mich, dass wir mit Laila Hamidi eine Gastrednerin bei der La Martina Academy hatten, die sich als erfolgreiche Stylistin zahlreicher internationaler Stars, wie Karolína Kurková oder Bar Rafaeli nicht nur perfekt in der Fashion-Welt auskennt, sondern zudem selbst eine spannende und charismatische Fashion Ikone ist”, so Bastian Ammelounx. Den passenden Rahmen bot, wie schon bei den beiden vorherigen LM Academys, die viergeschossige Villa am Rhein, die nicht nur das Headquarter, sondern auch den Showroom von La Martina beherbergt. Die Gäste erhielten hier einen einzigartigen Einblick in die Mode und Tradition von La Martina, wurden in exklusiven Shuttles von Maserati zum Event gefahren und genossen den Champagner-Empfang von Perrier-Jouët.

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LM Academy La Martina Fashion
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Press Office La Martina Germany