Swiss firm Archroma, COLOURizd partner to make fashion sustainable

The new collaboration will enable fabric mills and brands to combine Archroma pigment coloration solutions with the COLOURizd QuantumCOLOUR yarn-colouring technology to produce high-quality, high-performance textiles with maximum consumer appeal and minimal environmental impact.

“Archroma is committed to advancing the fashion and textile industry with sustainable solutions that are safe, efficient and enhanced,” Joaquin Femat, director, printing market segment, textile effects division, Archroma, said. “As the preferred supplier of pigment coloration solutions for QuantumCOLOUR we are proud to join COLOURizd in challenging industry conventions to make textile and fashion production better for brands and mills, people and our planet.”

“With a mission to revolutionise the textile industry through groundbreaking and eco-friendly solutions, COLOURizd is pleased to partner with Archroma to champion clean and simple yarn colouring. We are reimagining textile colouration in partnership with leaders like Archroma because we believe in a future where fashion is accessible, affordable and sustainable,” Jennifer Thompson, chief executive officer at COLOURizd, said.

Conventional fibre-reactive methods of dyeing cellulosic and synthetic yarns are multi-step resource-intensive processes that use up to 95 litres of water per kilogram of coloured yarn and discharge approximately 94 litres of effluent.

In contrast, the innovative QuantumCOLOUR process injects pigment and a binder directly into the yarn, using only 0.95 litres of water per kilogram of coloured yarn while producing zero effluent. This represents an unprecedented reduction of 98 per cent in water consumption alongside zero wastewater discharge, zero discharge of harmful chemicals, 73 per cent decrease in carbon footprint and 50 per cent reduction in energy use.

With Archroma, textile manufacturers and apparel brands can add further value to the QuantumCOLOUR process with tailor-made system solutions, including JUST COLOR. This formaldehyde-free pigment colouration system is based on Archroma’s revolutionary Printofix pigment dispersions and Helizarin binders to deliver exceptionally soft fabrics with high fastness and durability, while also enabling energy and chemical savings and higher productivity.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RR)