Dyes & Chemicals

Browzwear Empowers 3D Fashion With Colour Atlas By Archroma

Textile Insights February 8, 2024

Archroma, a manufacturer of sustainable specialty chemicals and Browzwear, a pioneer of 3D digital solutions for the fashion industry, have expanded their partnership by adding colours for polyester. “The partnership will bring the complete Colour Atlas by Archroma library of colours to

Dyes & Chemicals

Archroma Tweaks Dye Recipe To Make It More Cost-Effective

Textile Insights February 2, 2024

Archroma has extended its Avitera SE technology by launching Avitera SE Generation Next for more cost-effective sustainable dyeing of cellulosic fibres and blends. With an improved cost-to-performance ratio for new dark and extra-dark shades, the Avitera SE Generation Next range helps mills increase yield, improve productivity and reduces processing costs. “Dyeing darker

Dyes & Chemicals

Avient Unveils Deep Jet-Black Shades To Its Colourants Range

Textile Insights November 29, 2023

Avient Corporation, a supplier of specialised and sustainable material solutions and services has added new black colourants to its Renol Fibre Colourants portfolio. “These colourants can achieve intense, high-quality levels of deep jet-black shades (jetness) in polyester textiles who seek a more luxurious appearance,” the US headquartered company said in a press release.

Dyes & Chemicals

Bluesign Simplifies Access & Makes Bluesign Guide Public

Textile Insights November 24, 2023

Bluesign has taken an important step in enhancing the Bluesign System and simplified access with introduction of the public Bluesign Guide. According to Bluesign, the public Guide is accessible to everyone and registration or login is not required to make information easily available to rapidly develop adoption of better materials With the new public Guide, […]

Dyes & Chemicals

Archroma Celebrates 100 Years Of Sulfur Dye Innovation

Textile Insights November 2, 2023

Archroma celebrated 100 years of sulfur dye innovation at its manufacturing and research hub in Castellbisbal, near Barcelona in Spain. The milestone was marked at an on-site ceremony attended by more than 250 guests, including officials from the Catalan government, current and former Archroma staff, key customers and others. “Delivering consistent product quality and

Dyes & Chemicals

Avient & Coloro Partner On Sustainable Fibre Dope-Dyeing

Textile Insights November 1, 2023

Avient Corporation and Coloro have partnered to supply the global textile industry with top-quality specialised colourants for the dope-dyeing of synthetic fibres and help brands achieve sustainability goals. “Avient products have also recently received the Global Recycle Standard (GRS) and Bluesign System Partner certifications,” the company said in a press release.

Dyes & Chemicals

CHT Bags Top Performer Award From Adidas

Textile Insights October 25, 2023

Sports shoes and apparel marketer Adidas has awarded CHT with its Top Performer award at its Adiformulator Award 2023. “This award recognises CHT’s high level of innovation and its constant commitment to making the textile value chain more sustainable,” the German manufacturer of textile dyes & auxiliaries said in a press release. In its latest […]

Dyes & Chemicals

Shortage Of Textile Dyes Impacts Nigerian Uniforms Industry

Textile Insights October 16, 2023

Nigerian textile and garment manufacturers are complaining about a shortage of textile disperse dyes to dye polyester fabrics, which is forcing garment factories to import polyester fabrics. The polyester fabric which is mainly used to produce school and various other uniforms has raised apprehensions that the cost of manufacturing uniforms will increase “This situation is

Sustainability

Americhem Launches Campaign Titled ‘Sustainability Enabler’

Textile Insights October 10, 2023

Supplier of innovative polymer solutions Americhem has announced a global campaign called ‘Americhem, a Sustainability Enabler’. This campaign aims to increase awareness of sustainability and help key business stakeholders achieve their sustainability goals. Americhem is focusing its sustainability efforts in three areas, Process, Product, and People and in the past few

Dyes & Chemicals

DyStar Reduces GHG Emissions By 9% In Fiscal 2022

Textile Insights August 25, 2023

Speciality chemicals manufacturer DyStar said its Scope 1 and Scope 2 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions totaled 56.91 thousand tCO2e in fiscal 2022, down 9 percent when compared to fiscal 2021. In its 13th and latest sustainability report, the company reported that it’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions intensity was also 45 […]