Clariant’s Advanced Denim technology honored
with prestigious innovation award
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Clariant ‘s Advanced Denim
technology has been honored by two of the prestigious 2012 Innovation
Awards organized by ICIS. ICIS Chemical Business magazine today revealed
the winners of the 2012 edition of its awards. Not only was the Advanced
Denim breakthrough eco-advanced dyeing technology recognized by the jury as
“Innovation with Best Environmental Benefit”, but it was also judged as
this year’s overall winner.
Designed and developed by the
Special Dyes specialist team of Clariant’s Business Unit Textile Chemicals
in Castellbisbal, near Barcelona, Spain, the two ICIS awards acknowledge
that, even with a denim production process that had seen no significant
evolution in more than 150 years, a revolution is possible – an
environmental one in this case made by Clariant.
The production of denim fabric
usually involves huge quantities of water. Clariant’s Advanced Denim
technology simplifies the finishing and dyeing of a fabric that accounts
for some 14% of global cotton production. In total, when employing the
Clariant’s Advanced Denim processes, Denim-Ox and Pad/Sizing Ox, water
consumption can be reduced by as much as 92%, while 63% of the usual cotton
waste is avoided and around 30% can be saved in energy costs too compared
to a traditional denim processes.
Clariant calculated that if
Clariant’s Advanced Denim technology were adopted in the production of 25%
of jeans worldwide, it would save 62 million m3 of water/year, the
equivalent of the water consumption of 1.7 million people. The technology
would also eliminate the need to treat 8.3 million m3/year of wastewater,
220 million kWh of power would be saved and the carbon footprint of the
industry and its users in CO2 emissions reduced accordingly.
Clariant was one of the first
companies to be awarded an EU Ecolabel* for its illustration collection of
jeans in recognition of the sustainability benefits of Advanced Denim.
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