About Us

Esteem Cleaners is fanatical about the quality of our cleaning! People wonder how we have stayed in business for over 25 years. They ask why the California Dry Cleaners Association chose us as California's Best Cleaner. We are experts on Restoration Dry Cleaning: in restoring clothing, shoes, purses, rugs, & drapes resulting from a fire, mold or other catastrophes. We bill the insurance companies directly with a clickable link to CRDN's website. Esteem Cleaners has been in the dry cleaning business since 1985. It is owned and operated by Ray Rangwala who is a business coach for other cleaners. Ray has facilitated several seminars for the Drycleaning Association in teaching his fellow dry cleaners of the secrets of environmentally safe "WET CLEANING" instead of the usual chemicals. Esteem Cleaners is uniquely qualified in removing the toughest of stains because we incorporate traditional dry cleaning with enviro- safe wet cleaning.    

AWARDS Esteem Cleaners was selected "Cleaner Of The Year" for the entire state of California, by the California Cleaners Association. Since 1942, only ONE cleaner is chosen annually to receive this honor. It is like the "OSCARS" of the cleaning industry.

Esteem Cleaners believes in giving back to the community and is active in many civic organizations. It received the Vocational Service Leadership Award from Rotary International Ray organizes clothing donations annually.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Ray has chaired the Greater Los Angeles Dry Cleaners Association's annual "Coats For Kids" clothing drive where they cleaned over 20 thousand lbs. & distributed them to the needy.

Ray has been instrumental in helping an orphanage called Estado 29 near Ensenada, Mexico for the past 9 years. He goes there about 4-5 times/year. The orphanage website is www.friendsoftheorphanages.org

Ray has been a proud member of the Rotary Club in Glendale, CA for the over 10 years. He has cleaned clothes for the Delancey Street organization, in helping them get back on their feet.

Ray has been on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Cleaners Association since 1987.

Ray helped raise funds & accompanied a group of Surgeons to perform Cleft Lip & Palate surgery in a village near Bangalore, India. www.rotaplast.org. in Aug-Sept 2006. He was the official PhotoJournalist for that trip. His group performed over 125 surgeries.

 

Hi-Tech Meets Skilled Workers – Employee training is extremely important. It benefits the business as well as its clients because it improves quality. Training ensures on-time deliveries and minimizes mistakes. One of Esteem's unique machinery is the Automated Assisted Assembly .

This sophisticated system sorts, assembles without human error. This new technology allows us to reassign team members to more challenging roles as in quality control because some aspects of the business still require human intervention – like checking for missing buttons. (Let’s face it, there is no technology that checks for loose buttons).

 

 
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*** Cleaner & Launderer June 15 2017 Issue Remembering Those Who Have Served
*** Cleaner & Launderer June 10, 2019 Issue Big Smiles Start The Year
*** Cleaner & Launderer Jan 23, 2017 Issue Sanitone
*** He's a True Amigo to Mexican Orphans. National Clothesline Dec 2016 Issue   Mr Ray Rangwala volunteered with a Rotary Rotaplast International group of plastic surgeons in 2006. American Dream
*** National Clothesline, Aug 2002 Issue    
CRDN Operator Receives Vocational Service Leadership Award: American Drycleaner June 25, 2012  

 
 

Ray has chaired the Greater Los Angeles Dry Cleaners Association’s annual “Coats For Kids” clothing drive where they cleaned over 20 thousand lbs. & distributed them to the needy.

 

Ray has been going to this Orphanage for the past 22 years (& counting). It's called: Estado Orphanage 29 near Ensenada, Mexico.

 

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Mr. Ray Rangwala volunteered with a Rotary Rotaplast International group of plastic surgeons in 2006. He also was the group photo journalist & the group performed 116 cleft palate surgeries.