Americas Best Cleaners

Americas Best Cleaners is a third party organization that searches out the top cleaners in each major and secondary market.  Annual inspections, monthly secret shops and random spot peer review keep the standards the highest benchmark in the garment care industry.

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Some information on Americas Best Cleaners and their processes for certification: 

Couture care is an extremely delicate process, involving complicated technology, chemistry and years of practical experience. A couture care specialist is a well-trained master of their craft, from couture apparel to your white cotton shirts. America’s Best Cleaners Certification ensures this level of quality through cutting edge standards and continual education.

America's Best Cleaners does what it takes to not just satisfy but astonish their clients. Because their drive towards excellence is fueled by a passion to be the best; and the essence of that passion is this ideal of perfect quality.

To ensure that we only select this brand of dry cleaner, America's Best Cleaners™ has devised and implements the toughest standards of quality in the industry. We inspect thoroughly, we test monthly, and we test yearly with on-site inspections. We take surveys of retailers and clients, secret shopping reports and we listen to you, the customer.

 Requirements:

In order to maintain the exacting standards of America's Best Cleaners, affiliates are given a continuing education course of the highest levels through various workshops, seminars, tours and on-site instruction. They are steeped in the advanced courses of cleaning, spotting, finishing, Wetcleaning, packaging, and every facet of returning garments to their clients in like-new condition.

To be a dry cleaner on the cutting edge of fashion one must be familiar with the new age fabrics, dyes, embellishments as well as the complex construction of the garments continually making their way into the various designer clothing. America’s Best Cleaners takes the responsibility of keeping its affiliates educated in all the latest styles and technologies. They do this through;
  • Factory tours, Seminars, Workshops, Fashion Shows, Fashion Trade Shows and Events, Demonstrations performed by high level manufacturers, custom clothiers and clothing retailers

Certification Requirements:

Weekly self monitoring and recording.
  • Inspection and recording permissible spotting and cleaning controls.
  • 31 Individual Finishing Quality Control inspection points on six core garment types.
  • Maintenance checklist of core equipment essential to quality.

Monthly solvent testing to monitor the consistency and quality of the cleaning process performed by the Hohen stein Institutes.

Annual site inspections:
  • Review of weekly self monitoring records.
  • More than 20 individual criteria for cleanliness of the external and internal property.
  • More than 30 individual criteria for the consistency of design.
  • More than 60 individual criteria for plant function.

Correct design of individual production space