Kingwhale launches low-impact dyeing technology
17/06/2011
Besides creating new fabrics, Kingwhale has long used its research, testing and development labs to help minimise the environmental impact of its manufacturing process. Now the company can offer Low Impact Technology dyeing, a new way of coloring yarns that significantly diminishes the standard amount of heat, pressure and colourant material needed to achieve what conventional dyeing does, without sacrificing colour quality.
Kingwhale’s Low Impact Technology efforts are focused on finding ways to limit the energy and elements the process requires from the beginning.
“Often recycling is looked at as the best way to control waste, but we all need to take it a step further, to actually find a way to manufacture what we need while using fewer resources and materials in the first place,” says Kingwhale president, James Huang.
Mr Huang says that by modifying the molecules during the construction of polyester fibres, the yarns are able to take on dye more quickly, using fewer dyestuffs and without the heat and pressure conventional dyeing requires.
He also says that although the new process can be costly in terms of mechanics, time and man-hours, the energy and material savings plus the company’s focus on its Low Impact Technology initiative will allow it to offer fabrics using the new dyeing process at fair market pricing.
Kingwhale will launch the new technology with its fleece products, but the company hopes to convert all dyeing to the new Low Impact Technology process.
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