Drycleaning & Laundry Institute

Education and outreach - dli members enjoy the benefit of having regionally based associations that provide additional educational and networking opportunities, and an advocate to address specific state and local issues that affect the industry.

Research, garment analysis, and textile testing - state-of-the-art, technical service laboratories establish dli as the foremost authority on cleaning performance and care label development for today's fashions. Within dli's comprehensive fabricare testing center, apparel, textile and product manufacturers can evaluate garments and fabrics under real world conditions using the latest cleaning technology-perc, hydrocarbon, wetcleaning, commercial laundering/washing, and alternative technologies. Dli's quality control laboratory provides protocols for drycleaning systems as well as laundering operations to test quality standards and controls and achieve the highest level of efficiency. The dli research fellowships allow equipment, garment, and chemical manufacturers to conduct extensive, objective evaluations of quality and performance of fabricare products.