Your browser does not support the audio element. Martha Montalván arrived from Ecuador in 2002 at age 19 and worked 12 hours every day except Sunday at a dry cleaner ...

It was February and Blase Buononato, who co-owns Valleybrook Cleaners, a Wayne, N.J., dry cleaner that his father opened in 1971, had a decision to make. For almost 35 years, Valleybrook had used ...

State Environmental Regulation columnist Charlotte A. Biblow writes that about 70 percent of the dry cleaners located in the state still use perc as their solvent of choice, despite a 1997 regulation ...

PERC Ultra adds low-cost development platform to its stable of supported hardware San Diego, CA, September 29, 2009 —Aonix®, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java ...

When Joe Peterson, owner of two dry-cleaning businesses in Minneapolis, needed a new machine last year, he decided to try something different. Rather than buying a machine that uses perchloroethylene ...

California recently became the first state in the country to phase out a toxic chemical used in dry cleaning called perchloroethylene, or perc. The timing is such that cleaners will be able to wait ...

One of the region’s largest dry cleaning companies recently washed its hands of perchloroethylene, the dry cleaning chemical at the heart of about 170 cleaner site cleanups statewide.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Perchloroethylene, also known as perc, is the solvent used by about 75 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A decade ago, when Gordon Shaw first considered making the switch from ...

San Diego, Calif. – Aonix has added support for the Abstract Window ToolKit (AWT) and Swing graphics libraries to its PERC Ultra for embedded and real-time systems. “Some of our customers' projects ...

California will become the first state to phase out the use of perchloroethylene, or perc, a chemical used by commercial dry cleaners that has been linked in studies to bladder, esophageal and other ...