What Is Airdye®? : AirDye® technology manages theapplication of color to textiles without the use of water. It is todayssustainable alternative to traditional dyeing and decorating processes.


AirDye® technology from Colorep®, Inc., a California-based sustainabletechnology company, is a solution our planet needs today and for manytomorrows.


Key Features of AirDye® technology:


  • Does not pollute water in the color application process. By using air instead of water to convey dye, no hazardous waste is emitted and no water is wasted.


  • Greatly reduces energy requirements, thereby lowering costs and satisfying the strictest standards of global responsibility.


  • Does not use boilers, screen printing machines, drying ovens, or cleaning and scouring chemicals, thereby eliminating major sources of pollution.


  • Eliminates water in the color application step and simplifies the process, creating revolutionary possibilities of new industry and employment in unfarmable, arid regions of the world.


  • Gives consumers a way to choose style and sustainability at a realistic price at the point of purchase, thereby initiating world change.


Why for Business?


Business today must achieve high quality, lower costs, becompetitive, and meet customer demand for environmentally responsible productsthat are attractive.


Key Features of AirDye® technology:

  • Is easy to specify, reduces cost, offers beauty and quality, and reduces environmental impact.


  • Offers style without sacrifice. There is no dye-lot variation, no post-dye washing or treatments, and no minimum quantity.


  • Offers exciting new options:
    • Dye different colors on opposite sides of fabric.
    • Dye fabric a solid color.
    • Dye one side a solid color and the opposite side a print.
    • Dye one side of fabric with a print and the opposite side with another print.
    • Dye opposite sides of fabric with the same print.


How Does It Work?


Conventional dyeing, such as vat dyeing or cationic dyeing,can produce visually acceptable results. On the down side, it uses pollutingchemicals, a huge amount of precious water, and does not provide permanentcoloration. Sublimation printing has been used to decorate synthetic textiles,but this process has limited application.


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Originally published in New Cloth Market, July 2009