Huntsman Textile Effects and China’s Jihua Group have entered a strategic partnership. The two companies will co-operate on a wide range of areas to jointly capitalize on the growing need for dye and chemical solutions for China’s textile sector. The partnership will help the two companies speed up their supply chains to react more quickly to customers’ demand and increase the cost efficiency for customers.

The strategic alliance will help further strengthen the two companies’ capabilities of serving their customers in China and speed up their expansion in the country while raising standards for the whole industry.

Huntsman Textile Effects is a major innovator with more than 700 patents. It is the leading global provider of high quality dyes and chemicals to the textile and related industries, with six primary manufacturing facilities around the world. It has granted a sole license to Jihua for manufacturing, sales and marketing of Huntsman’s patented reactive Super Black dyes in China. The alliance will help to pave the way for Huntsman to enter into further discussions with the Jihua Group to broaden co-operation to include other reactive dyes and intermediates in the future.

Jihua Group is a market leader in China for the manufacture of dyes and intermediates with state-of-the-art facilities. Its products are marketed to almost 86 countries globally.