Advanced Drycleaning Course
October 13, 2025 - October 24, 2025
Deepen your understanding of running a drycleaning business at the world's most advanced school for owners and operators. From removing stains to designing your production plant to returning like-new garments to customers and all points in between, DLI's School of Drycleaning Technology will prepare you for an exciting career in a challenging industry.
Our combination of classroom and practical area allows students to master lessons in an optimal environment. Lectures are broken down into manageable chunks and applied soon afterward on the latest industry equipment to accelerate learning.
This ten-day Advanced Dry Cleaning Course is for individuals who have completed the Introduction Course or have hands-on production experience and knowledge of basic stain removal and finishing techniques. The advanced course covers:
- Identifying cotton, silk, polyester and other fabrics
- Using bleaches without damaging the fabric color
- Pressing blouses, dresses, ties, pleated garments, silks, velvets, corduroy
- Wetcleaning wool, silk, and more
- Maintaining and changing filters
- Troubleshooting problems with the dry cleaning machine
- Using tensioning equipment to improve finishing quality
- Current regulations facing the dry cleaning industry
- Customer service techniques for dry cleaners
- Getting clean, white laundry
- Cleaning and preserving wedding gowns
- Understand the difference between solvents including perc, GreenEarth® hydrocarbon and SOLVONK4
- Pressing laundered shirts
- Designing a dry cleaning plant with the most effective work flow
Kreussler offers all DLI members a discount on DLI resident courses. Please check the blue envelope mailed to you when you joined or renewed your membership for the appropriate code.
