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GreenEarth Cleaning provides operators a long term, competitive advantage in the marketplace. Licencees are committed to communicating the strength of their brand in their marketplace and following guidelines to achieve a high quality result for their customers. If you are ready for an exciting opportunity, contact us today!

Your Investment

The GreenEarth Licence Fee

A licence fee supports the major investment in developing GreenEarth for the dry cleaning industry and ongoing support for all affiliates. The annual fee is $1,500 plus GST. The fee has never been increased since the inception of GreenEarth.

Start Up Costs

Start up costs vary by Company depending on processing equipment that already exists and the extent of an advertising campaign planned to announce your newest investment.

A minimum cost of $905 plus GST provides video training for stain removal, a start up packet of swing tags and related advertising materials, and an onsite visit for each new installation to ensure a quality result.

Equipment Buying Guide

Thinking of buying a new drycleaning machine compatible with GreenEarth?

* If you are a perc user and considering switching, click here.

* If you are a hydrocarbon user and considering switching, click here.

* If you are a new entrant to the industry, click here.

Below you'll find specific information designed to help you achieve the best possible performance from your new GreenEarth process. The information has been reviewed by industry vendors and drycleaners to assist you in your buying and design decisions. You may find these guidelines relevant to many of the newer machines, regardless of which solvent may be selected.

Design considerations

How do you plan to use this new process?

It’s good for all of your general drycleaning requirements, leathers, curtains and even wedding gowns.  It’s not designed for items that you now normally wash or wet clean.

Step 1:  Calculate capacity

The first step in your buying process is to determine the required capacity of your new equipment.  If you buy too small of a machine, you may need to overload it which will impact your cleaning results and extend your cycle times.  If you buy too large of a machine, you’ll spend more money than you may need to spend. 

One must also consider increase volumes. If you are currently outsourcing curtains, households, leathers, evening wear, or wedding gowns, these are now likely to be performed in-house, with the Greenearth® cleaning process.

Also, if you require a large portion of your volume to be cleaned and returned in a short period of time for agencies, dry shops or commercial contracts, a higher capacity may be required.

Answer the following 2 questions:

1.  How many kilos per hour do you require to be cleaned with this new equipment? (Generally, 1 kilo is about 2 garments)

2.  Multiply your answer in Question #1 by 1.2 to calculate your required equipment size.  _______ kilos per hour x 1.2 = _________

Purchasing a capacity of 1.2 times your hourly requirement takes into consideration a cycle times for the GreenEarth process, from 60 to 70 minutes and filling machines to only 85%-90% of stated equipment capacities to provide appropriate cleaning and drying action.

Step 2:  Cleaning Equipment Features

Based on test site results, the following equipment design has shown to improve cleaning and solvent mileage.

Strongly Recommended

* High extraction – 440 to 500 rpm
* 1-2 X Spin disk filters

Optional

Still (Tonsil often replaces the still although they can work together as well)

Not Required

Automatic still clean out – Sludge pump (existing affiliates have not found this feature to be required)

Automatic lint screen spray cleaner.

Carbon core filter (Deco)

3rd Filter

3rd Tank

Solvent chilling

Step 3:  Location and installation requirements

Replacing older cleaning machines with new machines or adding equipment in a plant impacts other aspects of the operation which may need to be reviewed prior to installation.

- PRV – pressure reduction valve (400 KPA max)

- Floor support adequate for high speed extract

- Boiler capacity (steam requirements may have increased)

- Electrical capacity (electrical requirements may have increased)

- Size of the water line into machine (proper sizing is required to provide adequate flow)

- Physical placement (Cleaning machines should be placed away from boiler gases)

Contact us or your local equipment representative for additional installation planning and ongoing support

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