Terrington Burchett Ltd - UK Wedding Dress Cleaners

UK Wedding Dress Cleaners - Baptiste Process ®

In the early 90’s the government decided to ban the solvent 113 Fluoro Carbon (CFC). At the time only two solvents were available Perk and Fluoro Carbon. Perk for the everyday wear and Fluoro Carbon for special trimmed garments i.e. garments with beads, sequins, fine silks, etc.

Being not only a Dry Cleaning mentor for many years I was also involved in the engineering of Dry Cleaning Machines and could see that the demise of Fluoro Carbon would leave many if not all Bridal Gown Manufacturers with a large problem i.e. having to remove all beading, etc to be able to clean their Gowns.

I at this time knew of a Dry Cleaning Process called the Baptiste Process® which no other Dry Cleaner was using at the time because of the type of machine needed to operate the Baptiste Process®. Unfortunately no Uk Manufacturer had such a machine or had even heard of the Baptiste Process® so I had to go to Foreign Lands to not only build a Machine to my design but also to explain the Baptiste Process® so as to make the Machine Computer Literate.

The Machine was installed at our premises in the UK in 1996 and so the Baptiste Process® was born.

For the next year or so tests were proven and Manufacturers started to see results never seen before. All they had seen to this point were Gowns being returned to them with melted beads, the Dry Cleaner at this time not knowing what to do blamed the Manufacturer for using the wrong Care Label and rightly so the problem was with the Manufacturer.

After seeing the results of the Baptiste Process® the Manufacturers asked if the Baptiste Process® could be used in their Care Label sewn into Gowns. This we took legal advice on and were told yes we could go ahead but was also advised to register the Baptiste Process® as a process for the cleaning of Bridal Gowns and garments with special trim. This we did in 2001 and the Baptiste Process® began to grow.

After eight years of the Baptiste Process® and thousands upon thousands of Garments with the Baptiste Process® sewn in we now find other Dry Cleaners using the word Baptiste and Baptiste Process® but if you read their Dry Cleaning Process they then claim to NOT to use the Baptiste Process® (I would suggest only to get you to look at their Web Site) but if you carry on reading they also tell you they do not accept responsibility for beads, sequins, button, etc. The Baptiste Process® was born to accept this type of trim (we do take responsibility).

We at Terrington Burchett Ltd are the ONLY Company who uses the Baptiste Process® it is our Process and not just simply ‘a name’ as one Dry Cleaning Company put it. If the Baptiste Process® is simply a name then why can we clean beads, sequins, etc where most others can not!

Here are just a few names of Designers using the Baptiste Process® Care Label:

• Ian Stuart
• Caroline Castigliano
• Berketex Bride
• Hilary Morgan
• Hollywood Dreams
• Mori Lee
• Ronald Joyce
• Eleni Bridal
• Augusta Jones
• Alan Hannah