Dyeing: the challenges to the adoption of alternative solutions

Sustainable sourcing is key to reduce the textile industry’s environmental footprint, and so is dyeing!

Phil Patterson – an expert in textile wet processing we are proud to work with – points out in the article below interesting highlights regarding the challenges slowing down the adoption of innovative solutions.

If several technologies are currently under development to address the potentially strong reliance on water, energy and chemicals of this step, many challenges remain, some of them related to investments, confidence and responsibility.

Thank you Phil Patterson for your viewpoints !

Dyeing clothes uses lots of fossil fuel. Startups are vying to fix that

Startups are figuring out alternatives to mainstream ways of dyeing clothes, which tend to require lots of hot water — which tends to be heated with fossil fuels.