One of the latest companies to join TMAS, the Swedish Textile Machinery Association – Imogo unveiled its new Dye-Max system at the recent Innovate Textile and Apparel (ITA) exhibition. This Dye-Max spray dyeing technology can slash the use of fresh water, wastewater, energy and chemicals by as much as 90 per cent compared to conventional jet dyeing systems. This is due to the extremely low liquor ratio of 0.3-0.8 litres per kilo of fabric and at the same time, considerably fewer auxiliary chemicals are required to start with.

Such technologies, however, face a number of obstacles to adoption. Imogo therefore has decided to emphasize on sustainable production and use spray technologies for dyeing and finishing processes as a part of it.

The ITA roundtable discussion was attended by Simon Kew, Alchemie Technology, UK, Christian Schumacher, StepChange Innovations, Germany; Tobias Schurr (Weko, Germany; Rainer Tüxen, RotaSpray, Germany and Felmke Zijilstra (DyeCoo, Netherlands.