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Cleaning
Getting kitchen towels clean
  Laundering gasoline soaked items
Fading - Discoloring - Color Runs
  Preventing Towels from Discoloring and Tearing
  Reducing bath towel fading 
  Salvaging clothes subjected to color runs
  White towels, table linens, etc., graying after just three months
Healthcare
  Hospital linen replacement
  Hospital Linen - How should it be handled?
Patient care Linen usage
  Operating room tape
Laundry Management
Laundry employee competency
Laundry Chemicals and Operations
  Available literature on organizing and managing a laundry chemicals warehouse
Average number of pounds in hotel room
  Chemical solution to use in treating cotton fabric
  Chlorine & oxygen bleach usage
  What temp does bleach turn to a gas?
  Cost per pound for chemicals
  What is an Emulsifier & where do I purchase it?
  What is an Emulsifier and what does it do?
  Enzymes Used in Laundry Operations
  Hydrogen Peroxide as an effective disinfectant
  Negative effects of ozone 
  Soiled weight versus clean weight
  What is alkali hydrolysis?
  What’s the concentration of sodium chlorite in bleach?


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Lint
  Preventing pilling & linting on operating room towels
Problems with lint
  Reducing Lint with Anti-Static Compounds
  What Causes Lint?
Smells and Odors
  Bed sheet odor
  Odors after washing pillowcases
  Removing smoke smell from clothing after a fire
  Retaining perfume after the drying cycle
Stains
  Bulk wash chemicals to remove bloodstains
  How do I remove perspiration stains?
  Products to eliminate ink stains on lab coats
  Removing Carbon Stains
  Removing food grease, oil, etc. from white & colored table linens
  Removing hydraulic fluid stains
  Removing makeup from bath towels
  Staining problem
  Washing after lipstick opened in the dryer
Starch
  How do you remove laundry starch from shirts?
  Removing starch from cotton/poly blend shirts
Towels
  Standards for washing bath towels
  Shrinkage of towels
   

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