Mission Statement

To provide our members with technical and practical support ensuring commercial and retail customers receive
the best possible experience and quality of service in the textile care industry.

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Textile Care Federation Conference 2016

Well another conference done and dusted but what an awesome success is was.

Speaking on behalf of all our members, we would like to extend a sincere thank you to all our sponsors, especially Bowe and those who are regular supporters, but indeed to all and everyone that added value and made it possible for us to put on such a successful event.

Next we would like to thank everyone who made the commitment to come along, without your support we could not have put on such an awesome event or had such a great time networking.

Big congratulations again to Paul George of Alsco Motueka for winning the fabulous 2016 Filterfab Award, 2017 is going to be a wonderful year for you Paul, we are so pleased you battled the weather and travel upsets to make it in the end. Also congratulations to Trish from Sudserella and Daniel from La Nuova for their entries, I think many were please not to have to judge such a tough competition.

The Executive Committee would like to welcome to Patrick Girvan (Managing Director) from Bowe, as our new Supplier Rep – and extend a big thanks and acknowledgement for all Stacey’s hard work over the time he held this position. Although he is stepping down he will still be available if and when he is needed. 

We hope very much that everyone all had an absolutely wonderful weekend, making the most of the networking opportunities, discovering what the sponsors had to offer, grabbing some take away gems from the speakers and last but not least having a whole lot of fun with your colleagues and peers within the TCF family.

There will be photos and videos of the weekend uploaded soon to the Conference Website, so please head over there and check them out.

Conference Highlights HERE

Also the AGM minutes will be available for members at some point in the near future, keep an eye on your inbox.

Meanwhile we hope you are still buzzing from the weekend and armed with some gems of knowledge feel inspired to continue your excellent work.

Kind regards

Deedee & Jo

Filterfab Award Winner Announced

Congratulations to Paul George of Alsco Motueka for his winning entry.

Our sincere thanks to Filterfab for continuing to sponsor this award for our industy, we are extremely grateful to have your support.

The objective of the award is to recognise and reward the achievements of that individual and to further develop the career path of that individual within the laundry industry.

The winner receives a 10 day ‘all expenses paid’ round the world trip, taking in visits to overseas laundries, manufacturers, an International Trade Show (TBA) and a visit to Filterfab’s parent company in England.

The Textile Care Federation of New Zealand would also like to thank the other applicants for their excellent entries they made for some tough competition.

Objectives

  1. To promote, aid, foster, develop and protect the interests of the laundry and/or dry cleaning industry in New Zealand by whatsoever means the Federation considers appropriate.
  2. To secure to the trade and the Federation all the advantages of mutual support including employment relations matters.
  3. To create a feeling of unity amongst members of the industry throughout New Zealand.
  4. To support the principle of private ownership in the industry.
  5. To commit to understanding and managing environmental impacts and sustainability across our industry with the goal of continual improvement. To comply with the relevant environmental legislation and regulations.
  6. To do all other such things as may appear necessary or desirable or incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them.