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GREAT NEWS!
GreenEarth® cleaning
has arrived at Arrow Fabricare!
What this means to YOU, our customer, is that your leather and
suede garments are being treated even more gently than ever before
possible! GreenEarth is a silicone-based processing solution
that thoroughly cleans without the harsh chemicals that leave
many leathers feeling "hard" to the touch. The other,
and perhaps greater, benefit of GreenEarth is that the solution
is non-polluting! Arrow, along with other progressive U.S. dry
cleaners, is welcoming this new technology advancement both for
customers and for the industry.
ARROW INTRODUCES
SUEDE & NUBUCK HOME CARE KIT
Is your suede jacket
suffering from elbows that shine? Elbows and cuffs of suede jackets
are vulnerable to nap flattening. Nubuck, too, can develop a
flat finish after a period of wear. Arrow's new Suede and Nubuck
Kit just $4.99! is available by mail order with instructions
to help you keep your garment looking good! The kit contains
a bar spot remover plus a brush, along with the instructions
on usage. The special bar will clean up light soil and spots
either dry or wet by following the instructions. The kit will
not restore nap that is missing due to excessive wear but it
does a great job to re-invigorate the existing nap.
Click here for information or purchase.
A HOLIDAY
TIP FOR YOUR FINE LEATHERS!
As you attend to social
activities this holiday season, be vigilant about adhesive-backed
name tags being attached to your leather jackets, shirts, purses
or coats. The adhesive will remove most leather finishes, leaving
your garment or accessory with an ugly 'adhesive blemish.' To
properly remove the adhesive and refinish the affected area requires
professional assistance.
For more information, about
your leather garments, click here.
DID YOU
KNOW?
Small businesses represent
more than 99.7% of all employers, according to the U.S. Department
of Labor (www.osha.gov).
Small businesses also create more than 75% of net new jobs annually.
Arrow is proud to have been a successful small business for the
past 90 years!
MANUFACTURERS
ON ARROW'S DOORSTEP!
Arrow is proof-positive
that it doesn't matter where a business is located if it has
a good reputation! This fall, several famous-name manufacturers
have shipped large orders to Arrow to correct problems caused
in the manufacturing process.
- On an order of 3,400 leather-trimmed
fabric coats, Arrow was able to correct a peeling finish on leather
trim and return the order in time to meet the fall/winter retail
sales season.
- Another large order of leather
coats was sent to Arrow to correct a leather spewing problem,
where some of the leather's natural fats and oils surfaced, making
the garments appear to be covered in an unattractive snowy residue.
Arrow's Leathercare team treated hundreds of these garments and
returned them to show room condition in time to meet the fall
selling season.
- A top-selling manufacturer
sent us a quantity of shearling coats that had become soiled
during the manufacturing process. When Arrow returned the finished
order, we received telephoned kudos saying the shearlings "looked
beautiful, like brand new!"
- "Crocking" created
a problem for another leather garment manufacturer who turned
to Arrow to resolve the issue. When too much color saturates
a new garment during the dye process, the excess color will rub
off. This is known as "crocking" and Arrow's
Leathercare team provides topnotch crocking solutions.
- Arrow's dry cleaning team
receives a good share of manufacturing problems, too. A very
large order of fleecewear arrived recently with color-bleed problems.
The garments, designed for consumer washability, needed to be
dry-cleaned to "set" the colors and to prevent the
color-bleed.
It's
amazing what Arrow and chemistry can do to correct manufacturing
mistakes!
