Dow Corning promotes eco-friendlier denim washing
Dow Corning Corporation highlighted the company's eco-solution for denim finishing at AATCC's Fashion Garment Washing Symposium last December in the United States.
Traditionally, processing and finishing denim to achieve the well-worn, soft look and feel desired by brand owners and consumers requires large amounts of water and energy. Hence, Dow Corning GP 8000 Eco Solution, which can achieve savings up to 50% of water and energy consumed during denim finishing without compromising the final aesthetics of the garment, according to Charles Zimmer, Dow Corning's global textiles strategic marketer.
Mr Zimmer told attendees of AATCC symposium ways to achieve significant water savings during denim finishing, to enable softening to be combined with previously incompatible processes, and to eliminate steps and reduce the amount of water, energy and time required to produce denim garments. |
Indians aim to bring about green industrial evolution
Two non-profit NGOs, the Helping Hand Foundation in association with Indian Merchants' Chamber-ERTF, organized a conference in India to arouse awareness on the "Green Evolution" and to let people from the concerned industries learn more about sustainable measures.
Held in January early this year, the Green Industrial Evolution 2010 conference will provide a platform to bring together all the stakeholders: the policy makers, the business and the representatives from three industries: a) energy (energy efficiency), b) carbon credit/CDM (clean development mechanism), and c) composite textiles. The objective is to exchange ideas and come out with an action plan to combat climate change with respect to these three areas. |
Hong Kong firm markets organic woollen yarns
Being certified by GOTS, Novetex in Hong Kong supplies organic wool while ensuring animal welfare at source and respecting the nature in alignment with the Oeko-tex Standard 100.
Novetex is certified by Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) awarded by Control Union. The wool raw fibre is purchased directly from a fully traceable certified organic sheep farm. Wool from the sheep is cleaned using specially approved biodegradeable cleansing agents. Water sources in the processing must be sustainable. All agents and oils used in the spinning process must not be synthetic. The dyes, if used, are metal-free, with low environmental impacts, therefore producing little wastage and run off, according to Novetex. |
US organic cotton plantings break records
US growers of organic cotton increased plantings of organic cotton acreage by 26% in 2009 over that planted the previous year, according to preliminary data collected by the Organic Trade Association (OTA) in a survey funded by Cotton Incorporated.
Analysis of available data collected by an OTA survey of US organic cotton producers and preliminary data from the Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative (TOCMC) put planted area at 10,731 acres in 2009, up from an estimated 8,539 acres in 2008. The 2009 plantings are the highest since 2001, when 11,586 acres were planted by US cotton growers.
Harvested acreage figures for 2009 are not yet available. However, estimates show that this could be as much as 9,555 acres, up from 7,289 acres harvested in 2008. Harvested organic cotton area in 2008 yielded 7,026 bales, of which 6,466 bales were upland cotton and 560 bales were pima cotton. This yield was significantly less than that in 2007 due to difficult weather conditions, including wind, hail and drought, in 2008. |
Zhao Qi-zhi(far left), Deputy General Manager of pacific Textiles received awards for its green efforts |
Pacific Textiles wins award in Hong Kong
Pacific Textiles was awarded the "Hang Seng Pearl River Delta Environmental Award 2008/09" as well as the "Hang Seng Pearl River Delta Environmental Category Awards - Air Emissions and Noise Abatement" jointly issued by the Federation of Hong Kong Industries and Hang Seng Bank last December.
Established by the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI) and Hang Seng Bank in 2007, the "Hang Seng Pearl River Delta Environmental Awards" was set up under the manufacturing category of the One Factory-One Year-One Environmental Project (1-1-1) Programme. Entering its second year, the Awards aim to recognize and encourage sound environmental practices by manufacturing companies in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region. |
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