Exciting new start for Woolsafe in North America
The WoolSafe Organisation has announced that Ms. Ruth Travis, President of RL Seminars, is to become WoolSafe's Director in North America. She succeeds Guy de Lacrose, who resigned from the post in January to concentrate on his other business interests.
Current President of the Institute of Inspection Cleaning & Restoration Certification and the immediate past-President of the Society of Cleaning & Restoration Technicians - one of the largest cleaning and restoration trade associations in the USA, Ruth is an expert in area rug cleaning and regularly teaches the IICRC-Approved Rug Cleaning Technician Course. She is also an IICRC-Certified Carpet Inspector specialising in colour correction.
Ruth is also a consultant to individual cleaning companies and works closely with the Carpet and Rug Institute in Dalton, as well as the American Furniture Manufacturing Association in High Point, North Carolina.
Ruth, who is based in Franklin, Tennessee, operated a fabric care service for 13 years where she performed fabric cleaning, fibre protection, and inspection and colour correction services for her clients, interior designers and carpet mills. After selling her share of the business to her business partner in 2001, she shifted her focus to training and instructing others in the fabric care industry.
Says Paul Bakker, WoolSafe's Managing Director: "We are really excited about this appointment. Ruth is undoubtedly one of the best-known, highest-qualified and most respected figures in the carpet and rug cleaning industry in North America. She is also an experienced floor covering inspector with great contacts in the whole of the industry, not just in North America but also in Europe and Australasia. There is no doubt she will raise the profile of all WoolSafe's programmes significantly and bring in new members, licensees and approved cleaning products."
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19th June 2008