Industy shows a great need for basic and advanced training.

Budapest(IS) With a total of 64 participants from the Hungarian professional textile care industry,the first laundry seminar held in Hungary proved to be a great success.It was organised and held by INNOVATEXT Textile Engineering and Testing Institute Co.in cooperation with the Hohenstein Academy e.Vand the Hungarian Society of Textile Technology(TMTE)at the INNOVATEXT premises in Budapest.

When putting together the programme,the head of training and seminar speaker,Ludger v.Schoenebeck,Managing Directou of the German Certification Association fo Professional Textile Services,concentrated on two core poingts that constantly present new challenges to companies in the industry ."Disruptions and quality problem are the result of laundry-specific weaknesses that can be permanently resolved given seamless industrial technology,"stated v.Schoenebeck,"the second greatest challenge for laundry companies is in the area of sustainable textile hygiene,which requires comprehensive hygiene management within the laundry companies."in line with this,interest in the event was very high:the participants mainly came from hotel and hosptial laundries and the National Center for Epidemiology and were looking for practical solutions to their respective problems.

Dr.Livia Kokas Palicska,Institute Director at INNOVATEXT,Simultaneously translated the presentations held in German for the audience.She was very pleased with the event:"The high level of interest and the overall positive feedback prove that the Hungarian professional textile care industry has a great need for skilled basic and advanced training."This was also reinforced with a written survey of the participants directly after the event.According to this,almost all of those questioned were very satisfied with the laundry seminar itself and with the individual benefits.In the future,the seminar participants would like to see items specifically relating to the areas of damage claims and their causes as well as complaints management.

After the event,the participants in the laundry seminar received certificates of participation from the Hohenstein Academy.In addition,the presentations,which had been translated into Hungarian,could be downloaded using a password.