Latest Dyeing & Finishing News

8 February 2012, Beaverton, OR Nike announced this morning that it has entered into a strategic partnership with DyeCoo Textile Systems B.V., a Netherlands-based company that has developed and built the first commercially available waterless textile dyeing machines. By using recycled carbon di...

3 February 2012, Singapore DyStar has announced it has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the collaborative venture established in 2011 by leading apparel retailers, suppliers and manufacturers with participation from academics and NGOs. The main objective of the SAC is to develop...

21 November 2011, Caronno Pertusella (VA) Vertical Italian warp and weft knitter Piave Maitex has invested in state of the art high speed digital printing technology for stretch fabrics from La Meccanica di Urgnano. The new generation machinery is being installed this month at the company's Car...

3 November 2011, Barcelona     ITMA 2011 Barcelona was a successful and rewarding event for DyStar, which shared its sustainable textile processing knowledge, products and solutions with its guests and visitors as well as attendees of the Sustainable Textile Leadership Roundtable...

Clariant relocates Textile Chemicals HQ to Singapore 1 November 2011, Singapore   Specialty chemicals company Clariant today officially inaugurated its Textile Chemicals Business Unit (BU) headquarters in Singapore. Along with the inauguration of the BU headquarters, Clariant is also celeb...

29 July 2011, Singapore Huntsman Textile Effects (TE) today challenged the textile industry to work in partnership and take on responsibility for environmental sustainability throughout all areas of the textile supply chain in order to reduce the global impact on the use of increasingly scarce reso...

DyStar moves forward 8 July 2011, Singapore DyStar says it is continuing to move ahead of expectations in spite of difficult market conditions as it returns to profitability. Overall sales revenue increased by approximately 15% over the same period last year. "We wouldn't have achieved such good ...

7 June 2011, Mönchengladbach German finishing machinery builder Monforts says that with energy representing more than 60% of the total costs of a thermal system over a period of 10 years, it provides a constantly increasing expenditure. Consideration also has to be given to the cost factor for...

20 April 2011, Xanthi, North West Greece Greek circular knitting company Komotex AG has taken delivery of the country’s first Thies iMaster H2O dyeing unit and claims to have achieved rapidly successful results.  The company produces ‘body width’ tubular fabrics, rangin...

1 April 2011, Tirupur Following the recent trend towards the finishing of circular knitted fabrics in open-width format, Tirupur, India based commission dyer and finisher Sri Gayathri Colours has recently installed a Monforts Montex 6500 stenter for heat setting and finishing. The aims of the ...