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Silver Hanger Cleaners, Bellingham

Silver Hanger Cleaners, Bellingham, Mass. - Eliminating the use of toxic chemicals in dry cleaning

The Toxics Use Reduction Institute has been working with the dry cleaning sector for over ten years — focusing on the ultimate goal of replacing the use of perchloroethylene (PCE) in this sector with safer and feasible alternatives, particularly professional wet cleaning. In 2008, the Institute provided a matching grant to Silver Hanger Clean ... Read More >>

Small Businesses

Many small manufacturers and service businesses use toxic or hazardous materials such as paints, solvents, oils, greases, and inks in their daily operations that can adversely impact human health and the environment. We have case studies, resources and contacts from our work with automobile maintenance and repair, dry cleaning, floor finishing, ... Read More >>

Smith and Wesson. 1995.

Smith and Wesson implemented process changes to reduce the use of l,1,1-Trichloroethane (TCA) in its cold degreasing operations. The installation of agitating parts washers and drum top washers which use an aqueous solution has eliminated the use of TCA and saves the firm at least $6,870 annually. Read More >>

Solvent Reduction Technologies: Macromeric Surfactants in Emulsion Polymerization. 1993.

TURI Technical Report No. 13. Functional PIB carrying methoxy endgroups were developed. The polymer prepared carrying diphenyl alkyl methyl ether at the end of the chain can be used to initiate the polymerization of silyl vinyl ethers in the presence of a Lewis acid and give block copolymers with controlled molecular weight and structure. Read More >>

South Coast Technical Products. 2007.

SouthCoast Technical Products made changes to their operating processes which brought the company into compliance with Massachusetts environmental regulations and led to significant reductions in water use. By switching from an elaborate ultra filtration unit to a simple bag filtration process, the company was able to reduce more than 200,000 g ... Read More >>