The end of 2013 will bring a change for textile service companies. Specifically, on Dec. 31, as part of a 2010 phaseout agreement between TRSA and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), liquid industrial laundry detergents will no longer contain nonylphenol ethoxylates, or NPEs. This process began in 2008 with EPA regulations; it ends on Jan. 1, 2015, with the phaseout of NPEs from both liquid and powder detergents. 
 
In 2008, the EPA issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) regarding NPEs. The ANPRM could require every commercial laundry to install air-monitoring equipment, which would result in ...