The Pakistani textiles industry that faces serious challenges regarding water and energy costs has a solution in hand to make the industry more globally competitive. It now plans to use of innovative enzyme solutions to reduce overall costs. To highlight the solutions within sustainable biochemistry, the Royal Danish Embassy, in collaboration with the global industry leader Novozymes is organising a series of seminars, business meetings and textile mill visits in Lahore, Faisalabad and Karachi this week.
Speaking at the first seminar in Lahore, Jakob Rogild Jakobsen, Charge d' Affaires of the Royal Danish Embassy observed that Danish companies are known for their innovation and technically proven solutions to some of the key challenges being faced by industry in Pakistan. Together Danish and Pakistani companies can forge partnerships in variety of sectors to benefit from each other's competences.
In the area of textiles where textile industry of Pakistan is constantly faced with challenges of energy and water shortage as well as high cost of raw materials that directly hampers its competitiveness in the international market, sustainable technological solutions can support the industry in mitigating these challenges. Some of the solutions presented during the seminars showed that energy costs could be cut by 25 per cent, water consumption reduced by up to 75 per cent, processing temperatures reduced to 20°C and processes shortened by up to 90 minutes.
