Clothes Care Research Center™ Facts

• The Clothes Care Research Center (CCRC) is an alliance of leading corporations and university researchers dedicated to improving clothing care in the home.
• CCRC's five corporate members represent every phase of home clothing care: Cotton Incorporated, GE Consumer & Industrial, Milliken & Company, Procter & Gamble, and VF Corporation.
• The University of Kentucky's Textile Testing Laboratory and Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science are the research members of CCRC. The universities provide unbiased expertise to conduct and analyze CCRC experiments.
• CCRC conducts research on emerging technologies to create solutions for consumers that extend the life of their garments and save time and money on cleaning and maintenance.
• CCRC shares its findings with textile technical associations for the benefit of the entire industry.
• CCRC members realize their own benefits from both CCRC's own research, as well as the data that is shared in the planning and execution of each study.
• A board of directors representing each member company governs CCRC and determines the direction for research projects. The board meets about three times annually.
• A standing committee of technical representatives from each member company designs the experiments with assistance from the two universities.
• The University of Kentucky's Textile Testing Laboratory conducts the experiments.
• Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science assists the technical committee in designing the testing protocols for experiments, and then analyzes the results from the University of Kentucky.
• CCRC members are committed to at least two more years of semi-annual research studies.

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