In the "Talk of the Trade" poll conducted for April 2011, more than half - 53.6%, to be exact - of the dry cleaners surveyed said they planned to attend Clean 2011. Another 13.6% said they weren't sure, and 32.9% had decided not to go. "I wouldn't miss it," one cleaner said. "[Clean is] one of the few occasions in North America where you get to compare a wide range of products and equipment, all within easy reach."According to the 1996 findings of IFTs laboratory, 41% of the 25,000 ruined garments and household textiles analyzed in 1995 were judged to be the responsibility of the manufacturer, up 6% from the previous year. In 1995, 22% of problems resulted from solvent-soluble dyes, prints and sizings. Other categories that were significant for manufacturer responsibility included other defects, color loss and leather problems. Garments with shrinkage or distortion problems rose dramatically from the previous year.
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