SAMUEL GAROFALO / TECHNICAL CONSULTING

CURRICULUM VITAE, CLIENT LIST

Personal information available upon written request:

Spence Incorporated
Laundry and Dry Cleaners
1953-1986 –employee, owner

Onondaga County
Van Duyn Home and Hospital
Laundry Supervisor
1980-1983

Technical Consulting Co.
1980-Present

 

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EXPERT WITNESS and TESTIMONY

Artels Enterprises vs. Statewide Machinery  (NY)

Band Box vs. Red Cedar Hospital (WI)

Clean Tech vs. Lori Paquin (Old Fashioned Cleaners) (MA)

Coldiron vs. Pizza Hut   (California)

Cornell Laundry vs. Amrex Chemical  (NY)

Domestic Uniform Service vs. Keystone Fleet Services Harrisburg (PA) 

Estate of Larry Bouchard vs. G.A Braun  (NY)

Estate of James Carl Garofalo vs. State of New York Workers Compensation Board
(precedent perchlorethylene) 

Hay Adams Hotel  vs. Virginia Textiles, Fratte, et al (Virgina)

Marrone vs. G A Braun   (PA)

Northern Uniform Service vs. Johnson Diversey/WSI   (Ontario, Canada)

Northcenter Foods vs. Wee Wash it  (ME)

Oliver vs. Spence Dry Cleaners  ( NY)

Palmetto Linen Service vs. Gurtler Chemical Company (SC)

Quality Suites vs. Ecolab   (ME)

Raymond Roundsville vs. ARC Cannavino ENT  (NY)

State of Oregon vs. Safeway Inc. (OR)

Tenny Laundry vs. GA Braun  (NY)

U.S. Government vs. U.S. Linen Systems  (Federal)

U.S. Government vs. Custom Care/ Hilton Enterprises  (Federal)

Unifirst Corporation vs. Giles Ransome  (PA)

(List does not include Small Claims Court cases, estimated to be in the hundreds)

 

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SEMINARS

BACT
Best Available Control Technology

Litigation

Survival Skills/ Justification of OPL’s

Right to Know

Tunnel Vision

Tunnel Systems

 

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INDUSTRY MANUALS and PUBLICATIONS

SYSTEMS and PROCEDURES
for
PROCESSING HOSPITAL LINEN
Compliance Manual
OSHA
Bloodborne Pathogen Rule
29CFR part 1910.1030

Quick Guide
for
Milnor CBW’s

Linen Stats (quarterly)

TRSA

Lodging Magazine

“DISPOSABLES”
HEAVEN SENT or NIGHTMARE

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QUOTED IN

Forbes Magazine

Lodging Magazine

TRSA

Village Voice

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

 

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

CHEAP CLEAN

HIBI TREAT

LAUNDRY SPOT DRY TITRATION KIT

NEW LINEN DURABILITY TEST

THE NOTIFIER

PULSE FLOW

RADEFENSE

STARCH GUARD

TEST MASTER SWATCH TEST

THE SNATCHER

TEXTERG

WATERWATCH
Marketed as “the Turtle”

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INDUSTRY ORGANIZATIONS

TRSA

NFPA
Chairperson  NFPA 31
Technical Committee
Textile and Garment Care Processing

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CHEMICAL COMPANIES

Atlantic Chemical Inc.
Newton, MA

Buffalo Soap Co.
Buffalo, NY

Clean All Products
Syracuse, NY

Chemical Systems Technology
Denver CO.

Chem-X
Joliet, IL

Custom Compounders
Arnold, MO

Diamond Chemical Company
East Rutherford, NJ

Gurtler Chemical Company
South Holland, IL

Ideal Chemical Company
Memphis, TN

Loutron Chemical Company
Ft. Wayne, IN

Northland Technology
Utica, NY

Pariser Chemical Company
Patterson, NJ

Pro Clean
King of Prussia, PA

Professional Chemical
Ft. Wayne, IN

Solvents and Petroleum
Syracuse, NY

South Nassau Control
Hicksville, NY

Spartan Chemical
Maumee, OH

Spectrum Chemical/Horwitz Paper
Horseheads, NY

Syntec Laundry Solutions
Dracut, MA

Unichem Co.
Chicago, IL

USAClean
Pittsburgh, PA

Val-Chem Co.
Sayre, PA

Warehouse Point Supply and Equipment
East Windsor, CT

 

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EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORS

Dalex Corporation
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Frontier Supply Inc.
Buffalo, NY

Martin-Ray Inc.
Denver, CO

TriSTATE Technical Services
Concord, NC

Western State Design
Los Angeles, CA

Yankee Equipment
Barrington, NH

 

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PRODUCT MANUFACTURES and ASSOCIATES

3-M
St. Paul, MN

Beeken, Petty, O’Keefe and Company
(GE Capital)
Chicago, IL

Baltic Linen
Lake Success, NY

G A Braun
Syracuse, NY

Georgia Textiles
Norcross, GA

Harbour Linen
Gibbsboro, NJ

Hal Joyce and Associates
(in memoriam)
Anaheim, CA

Integrated Linen Systems
Arlington, TX

Med-I-Pant Corporation
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

 

Milliken VISA Corporation
Spartanburg, SC

Pellerin Milnor Corporation
Kenner, LA

Pertle & Alexander
NY, NY

Senking USA
Panama City, FL

Versapak
Fairlawn, NJ

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LAUNDRY FACILITIES

American Linen Services Co. (ALSCO)
Salt Lake City, UT

Ameritex
Omaha, NB

Ames Linen Service
Cortland, NY

Angelica Textile Services
Alpharetta, GA

Aramark (Service Master Co.)
Atlanta, GA

Artel Enterprises
Syracuse, NY

Associated Hospital Services
New Orleans, LA

Associated Textile Rental Services
Rochester, NY

Atlantic City Linen
Atlantic City, NJ

Atlantic City Linen New England
Norwich, CT

A Vask
Copenhagen, Denmark

Balford Linen Service
Tipton, PA

Barnes Jewish Hospital
St. Louis, MO

Barnwell Nursing Home
Valatie, NY

 

Baylor Medical Center
(North Texas Laundry)
Dallas TX

Baystate Hospital
Springfield, MA

Belmont Laundry
San Diego

Brady Linen Services
Las Vegas, NV

Central Dakota Hospital
Bismarck, ND

Cotton Services
Rochester, NY
Syracuse, NY

Custom Care
Kalamazoo, MI

Daughters of Sarah
Albany, NY

Daybrook Services
Nottingham, England

Deaconess Health System
St. Louis, MO

Denman Linen Service
Quincy, IL

Eastern Maine Medical Center
Bangor, ME

Easy Clean Services
Syracuse, NY

Empire Linen Services
Lowell, MA

ESD Laundry
Stamford, CT

Essex Linen Service
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Faultless Linen Services
St. Louis, MO

Fibison Cleaners
Syracuse, NY

Florida Linen Service
West Palm Beach, FL

General Linen
Manchester, NH

Gold Coast Linen Service
West Palm Beach FL

Gulf Coast Laundry Services
Gulfport, MS

Gulf Coast Laundry Services
Immokalee, FL

Halifax Linen Service,
Roanoke Rapids, NC

Hand-Craft Services
Richmond, VA

 

Harrahs International
Las Vegas, NV

Hebrew Rehabilitation Center
Hyde Park, MA

Hospital Laundry Service
Fort Wayne, IN

Hospital Linen Service Inc.
Kansas City, KS

Hospital Sisters
Springfield, IL

J C Resorts
San Diego, CA

Job Options
San Bernardino, & Chula Vista, CA

Los Angeles, County
Los Angeles, CA

Maple Springs Laundry
Hickory, NC

JW Marriot
Houston, TX

Medical Linen Systems
St. Johnsville, NY

Minnesota (State of)
Brainard, MN

Model Star Laundry Service
Danville, IL

Mohenis Group
Washington, DC

Moneysworth
Elizabeth City, NC

National Linen Service
Corporate offices
Atlanta, GA

Nevada Linen Services
Las Vegas, NV

New Courtland Inc.
Philadelphia, PA

New York State Office of General Services
Albany, NY

Nixon Uniform
Hyattsville, MD

Northern Uniform Services

Norwalk Linen
Norwalk, CT

Onondaga County Department of Social Services
Syracuse, NY

P J Holloran Linen Service
St. Louis, MO

Paris Uniform and Linen Service
DuBois, PA

Plaza Manhattan Hotel
NYC, NY

Prestige Linen Service
Bayshore, LI, NY

Progress Linen
Indianapolis, IN

Purity Services
New Bedford, MA

Reino Linen Service
Gibsonburg, OH

Rinaldi Linen Service
Waterbury, CT

Robison Smith Inc.
Gloversville, NY

Royal Hospitality
Somerville, MA

Royal Institutional
Somerville, MA

Royal Linen Services
South San Francisco, CA

RUS Services
Culpepper VA

Savoy Linen Service
Stratford, CT

Service Linen,
Renton, WA


Shadyside Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA

Shelton Laundry
Bridgeport, CT

Sheraton New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

Spence Dry Cleaners Inc.
Syracuse, NY

State of New Jersey
Trenton, NJ

Strong Hospital (University of Rochester)
Rochester, NY

St. Marys Hospital
Amsterdam, NY

Suffolk Linen Service
South Hampton, NY

Texas Department of Hospitals
Austin, TX

Town Sports International
Long Island City, NY

U.S. Linen Systems
Watertown, NY

Unifirst Corporation
Croydon, PA

Universal Linen Services
Rome, NY

Valley City Linen
Grand Rapids, MI

Virginia Linen Service
Washington, DC

Weston Houston
Houston, TX