Chlorinated solvents sector recognised for support to sustainable textile care

Friday, February 11, 2011

The professional textile care industry has recognised the European Chlorinated Solvent Association (ECSA) and its partners through its Excellence Award 2010 for their awareness programme of sustainable professional textile care.

The honoured E-DryClean Project is the first European online package providing training, expertise and best practises for safe and sustainable professional textile care. The CINET Excellence Award is given annually by the International Committee of Textile Care to persons or organizations which provide a valuable resource to the industry. CINET constitutes the umbrella organization pooling national textile care associations.

The E-DryClean Project groups 15 partners from eight European countries. Over a two year period they developed an E-learning package that gives a comprehensive and detailed overview of best practices and working procedures in sustainable dry-cleaning. It also assures that the cleaning processes meet all legal requirements. The European Chlorinated Solvent Association (ECSA) was leading partner on the module Perchloroethylene.

The E-DryClean learning material is self-explanatory. It is available in seven languages at www.cinet-online.net/edryclean/ . National distributor associations have been offering it since 1st of January 2011.

Further information:
ECSA - European Chlorinated Solvent Association, Dr. Wolfgang Marquardt
Tel: +32 2 676 72 28, E-mail: ECSA@cefic.be , Website : www.eurochlor.org/ecsa

Footnote to Editors:
About ECSA (European Chlorinated Solvent Association):

ECSA represents the interests of the producers of chlorinated solvents in the EU that are organized under Euro Chlor. Euro Chlor is the Brussels based business association representing chlor-alkali producers in the EU and EFTA regions, employing 39,000 people at nearly 70 manufacturing sites.

Almost 2,000,000 jobs in Europe are related to chlorine and its co-product caustic soda. These two key chemical building blocks underpin 55% of the European chemical industry turnover.

More than 90% of the European drinking water is made safe with chlorine and about 85 % of all medicines are synthesized using chlorine chemistry. Euro Chlor is an affiliate of Cefic - the European Chemical Industry Council.