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. The financial claims of SOLUTION against Crawford/CLEAN TECH could not be realised because CLEAN TECH went into bankruptcy in 2001. At this same time J.E. Crawford founded the company TRADEX that also went into bankruptcy in 2003. Today J.E. Crawford’s father now retired is offering to pay by instalments his’ son debts because none of the relevant authorities know J E Crawford’s address of residence in the United States. The judicial disputes have been both time consuming and expensive. There was also a charge against Günter Glöckner/SOLUTION, which was withdrawn, whereas the
District Attorney made calls for the arrest of Ed Crawford at the beginning of 2002 because of suspicions of fraud and blackmail. Reference number 5131 Is 030786/00 District Attorney, Frankenthal.
In case of such disputes only the lawyers are the winners.
Within the scope of different examinations, Chemisches Laborzentrum, Dr. Ulex, Hamburg, examination report no. 141801/3, 150201/12 of May 8th, 2001 it was stated that SOLUTION N° 2 is similar to ONE STEP but concentrated in a different way.
The 25th of April 2001 it was stated by the Institut Fresenius, N° of order 101/07734-00, that SOLUTION N° 2 – analogue to ONE STEP - does not contain any enzymes or detergents. In case of necessity all research results can be put at disposal. These are some of the reasons why SOLUTION never states that the products are identical. We only state that the products are very similar. They are identical according the features detergent free, no enzymes, no odour, micro splitting, non resoiling etc. They are different in concentration. Solution has been compared to some other “detergent free” products reflecting density, pH, etc. Last check January 2004 showed that SOLUTION Nr. 2 is approx. 15% higher concentrated than ONE STEP, the SOLUTION spotter Nr. 3 is approx. 25% higher concentrated than ONE STEP spotter. The comparison was done with products from AMTECH UK.
Nick (SOLUTION UK) and Günter (SOLUTION Glöckner) decided only after lengthy discussion and reflection to write this article. Those details, the publishing of such confidential information can no and should not be the subject of a relationship. The market is great enough for two manufacturers of similar products of micro-splitting/dispersion. SOLUTION has shown with the launch of SOLUTION Nr. 4, Wool cleaner, Woolsafe approved by Wool Safe Organization in February 2001, that we have the knowledge. This launch was long before ONE STEP launched the wool cleaner Fineline.
Only the market can decide which is the more efficient.
The target of SOLUTION in general and SOLUTION UK in particular is to look to the future. To keep the fair and competitive price, to offer training, practical advice, trial packs etc. To introduce new products like textile fiberprotection with SOLUGARD - European Innovation Award Winner 1st prize 2003 for SOLUTION. Simply said, to satisfy all present and future customers .
The forum and the comments gave SOLUTION a lot of constructive ideas for the future. For SOLUTION the market means, a dialogue of which both parties may profit.
Let’s look to this future.
Günter Glöckner For Solution Glöckner Vertriebs-GmbH
Nick Vousden-White Solution UK Ltd
No further statements will be issued regarding this topic by Solution