Garment Care Publishes South African Sourcing Guide for Perchloroethylene

CENTURION, South Africa – Garment Care has published a new guide, Perchloroethylene in South Africa: Quality Standards, Safe Storage and What to Look for When Sourcing. It addresses a common blind spot in professional dry cleaning, where the product doing the hardest work in the plant is often ordered on habit.

Solvent is frequently reordered without question and stored wherever there is space. For operators running professional dry cleaning machines, that habit puts cleaning results, machine life and workplace safety at risk, all tied to one product: perchloroethylene.

The article explores the markers that separate quality solvent from a poor buy, how solvent condition is monitored over time, and what safe storage looks like on site. It also covers matching pack size to machine and volume, and the questions worth putting to any supplier of perc dry cleaning solvent before an order is placed.

Even good solvent changes as it works. One simple reading, which should stay within a narrow range of 6 to 8, tells operators far more than they might expect.

For the full breakdown, read Perchloroethylene in South Africa: Quality Standards, Safe Storage and What to Look for When Sourcing.

About Garment Care

Garment Care supplies dry cleaning machines, solvents, finishing equipment and consumables to dry cleaners, laundries, hotels, hospitals and lodges across South Africa. The team works with commercial operators daily, so its advice reflects what performs on the floor.

Contact: Garment Care, 284 Kwanbi Crescent, Icon Industrial Park, Sunderland Ridge, Centurion. Tel: 012 111 0661. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.