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23 Jun '09
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THE PARTNERSHIP GreenEarth Cleaning will be the exclusive licensor of the patented Xeros technology to retail dry cleaners in NorthAmerica; it will also have the right to license to existing GreenEarth Affiliates in every country around the world. GreenEarth was selected from literally hundreds of interested parties to be Xeros's distribution partner; like-minded principals led early on to mutual respect and collaboration between the two companies. “Our partnership with GreenEarth is a critical piece to this project,” said Bill Westwater, Xeros' Chief Executive Officer. “They are not only experts in licensing and marketing environmentally sound technologies, they stand apart in the dry cleaning community as a company genuinely committed to creating solutions and new opportunities.”
The Xeros cleaning system is still in development and machines are not yet available. The technology was demonstrated at the Clean Show using a proof-of-concept machine—much like the GreenEarth technology was unveiled ten years ago at the 1999 Clean Show. Target launch date for commercial machines is late 2010; they will be validated in the marketplace through Affirmation Site Testing.
Machine prototype development is being led by Cambridge Consultants, a world-class engineering and design firm known for its highly successful rapid prototyping protocol—taking new technologies from proof-of-concept to manufacturability in record time. The Xeros Affirmation Phase will be designed to quantitatively confirm the cleaning efficacy and operational cost savings of the Xeros process and will be patterned on the highly successful GreenEarth rollout, which also utilized Affirmation Site Testing in a phased-in process during calendar year 2000. License fees and bead costs will not be determined until all operational criteria are qualified and a profitable ROI for retail dry cleaners can be established.
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