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1st Quarter Update Soaps, Surfactants, and Detergents Pat Slaven The carpet care business is about getting dirt, crud and crap (and unfortunately some real crap…) out of carpets and rugs. And well, making customers happy. You care enough to be a member...
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Polyester aka PET Pat Slaven Recently there was a cartoon in The Other Coast 9/9/24 https://www.gocomics.com/theothercoast/2024/09/09 Hysterical, true and sad all at the same time. Two sheep are sitting in a back alley, drinking their woes away and complaining...
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ARCS BOD asks...What are YOU Reading? A Photographic Study Guide for Oriental Rugs by Thomas R. Myerscough I would love to be able to say that the one book that I always refer back to over the years is “A...
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4th Quarter Update Pat Slaven My name is Pat Slaven and the ARCS Board of Directors asked me to start a regular column in your newsletter. Why me?, you may ask. It's a valid question. I’m the former Technical Director...
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3rd Quarter Update A Distressing Situation' -Robert Mann I’m not sure when I first heard someone call a rug distressed. It sounded odd. Did they mean the rug was having a bad day? Took a minute to realize it meant...
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