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HanesBrands invests in 19 Baldwin Precision Application Systems
13.02.2018

HanesBrands invests in 19 Baldwin Precision Application Systems

Baldwin Technology Company Inc.’s exclusive and innovative Precision Application System—which realizes substantial savings of water, chemistry and energy while increasing productivity—was designed with companies like HanesBrands in mind.

HanesBrands—whose venerable apparel lines include Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali and Maidenform, to name a few—has set significant environmental stewardship goals to reduce energy consumption and water use. The company’s recent investment in Baldwin’s Precision Application Systems, with a textile finishing technology that allows for accurate and controlled placement and therefore, reduced use of end-of-line chemicals and water, will help HanesBrands achieve its environmental sustainability goals. Additionally, Baldwin’s groundbreaking application system improves output through greater flexibility, fewer production steps and increased uptime.

Baldwin Technology Company Inc.’s exclusive and innovative Precision Application System—which realizes substantial savings of water, chemistry and energy while increasing productivity—was designed with companies like HanesBrands in mind.

HanesBrands—whose venerable apparel lines include Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali and Maidenform, to name a few—has set significant environmental stewardship goals to reduce energy consumption and water use. The company’s recent investment in Baldwin’s Precision Application Systems, with a textile finishing technology that allows for accurate and controlled placement and therefore, reduced use of end-of-line chemicals and water, will help HanesBrands achieve its environmental sustainability goals. Additionally, Baldwin’s groundbreaking application system improves output through greater flexibility, fewer production steps and increased uptime.

Mike Abbott, HanesBrands Global Director of Research and Innovation, said: “Baldwin fulfilled our requirements to provide a solution that optimizes our productivity while reducing our environmental impact.” HanesBrands thoroughly evaluated the technology for eight months in live production conditions with positive results. Abbott continued: “During the evaluation period of the system, we have had outstanding results in productivity increase, and we can clearly see that this technology will make a great contribution to our future efficiency and sustainability savings.”

Peter Hultberg, Chief Commercial Officer at Baldwin, said: “We are honored to partner with one of the world’s strongest apparel brands to help the company achieve not only its business goals, but also its corporate responsibility goals. The trust the HanesBrands team placed in Baldwin and our innovative application technology marks an important milestone for Baldwin and our quest to redefine the standards of sustainable textile finishing.”

The HanesBrands contract includes an option to supply 15 additional Precision Application Systems. 

HanesBrands invests in 19 Baldwin Precision Application Systems
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Baldwin Technology Company Inc. HanesBrands
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Baldwin Technology Company Inc.

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TINTEX Presents “NATURALLY ADVANCED” Innovations © TINTEX
TINTEX Presents “NATURALLY ADVANCED” Innovations
19.12.2017

TINTEX Presents “NATURALLY ADVANCED” Innovations

TINTEX is pleased to present its latest fabric innovations at the above salons with a new range of more than 80 qualities and styles designed for the Sportswear, Athleisure, Fashion and Underwear market sectors. The collection focusses on three jersey fabric concepts: TIMELESS, FASHIONABLE & INNOVATIVE.

TINTEX is a modern industrial company based in the Porto region since 1998, producing market savvy fabrics for global designers and brands. TINTEX makes a truly sustainable range of precision, modern hybrid jersey fabrics that offer a better, Naturally Advanced choices to all its customers.

TINTEX is pleased to present its latest fabric innovations at the above salons with a new range of more than 80 qualities and styles designed for the Sportswear, Athleisure, Fashion and Underwear market sectors. The collection focusses on three jersey fabric concepts: TIMELESS, FASHIONABLE & INNOVATIVE.

TINTEX is a modern industrial company based in the Porto region since 1998, producing market savvy fabrics for global designers and brands. TINTEX makes a truly sustainable range of precision, modern hybrid jersey fabrics that offer a better, Naturally Advanced choices to all its customers.

The new ‘Naturally Advanced’ position means “advancing beautiful, organic and natural materials to the next level combined with unique, hybrid ‘nature-tech’ smarts, with advanced, added value and creativity, thanks to dedicated investments that serve and secure our customer demands both now and in the seasons to come” says CEO Mario Jorge. New innovations, which include the ISPO Best Product Award i (SOFT EQUIPMENT category) in TexTrends for fall winter 19/20, maintain and upgrade the honest but hi-tech sustainable organics that is at the heart of the TINTEX DNA to create better, smarter eco-materials, always with new levels of performance and hi-tech smarts, thanks to its expertise in specialist dyeing and finishing techniques, coatings and applications. These are all researched, designed and made using the latest equipment and processes. This season the new TINTEX collection plays with new colour balance techniques that deploy the benefits of chromotherapy for welbeing alongside skin safe materials and finishings.

The collection uses up to 90% of new smart and sustainable materials and include: Tencel, Modal & Micromodal, Organic Cottons, Supima cottons, Seacell fibres, Natural organic linens and the new, full colour ECOTEC® yarns by Marchi & Fildi, a smarter cotton made from pre-consumer clippings that in manufacture save up to 79% water. This season TINTEX is also introducing the new ECOTEC® yarn Phoenix (50% ECOTEC®, 50% recycled polyester, NM1/50 GRS-certified) for open, light and dry textures. Wellbeing credentials are guaranteed with Tessile e Salute certifications, TINTEX also presents new developments using the ROICA™ Eco Smart family of ecosustainable stretch yarns with certificated credentials. This family of yarns claim the world-first GRS certified ROICA™ premium stretch yarn that comes at least 50% from recycled pre-consumer waste.

The newest introduction for second skin qualities and for products to the athleisure market within TINTEX collection is ROICA™ Feel Good family that promises a new level of performance with ‘feelgood comfort’ and freshness.

For colouration effects, we can use the ROICA™ Colour Perfect family of yarns to create a flawless and responsible finish to dyed performance stretch assortments. Colours to Tranquilize, to Activate the Senses, to Recharge, to Energize.

Key highlights include: changeant effects (yarn and dyeing solutions), thermosensitive (reds/ blues) coatings, UV sensitive coatings and colourful coated patterns, extra fine and semi-transparent jerseys, but also, compact and fluid qualities.

 

 

 

ISPO Best Product Award i (SOFT EQUIPMENT category): B.Cork ™ by TINTEX with ROICA™ Eco Smart family © TINTEX TINTEX Presents “NATURALLY ADVANCED” Innovations © TINTEX TINTEX Presents “NATURALLY ADVANCED” Innovations © TINTEX TINTEX Presents “NATURALLY ADVANCED” Innovations © TINTEX
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TINTEX ROICA ISPO
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28.11.2017

Defining Textile Sustainability

What Keeps Consumers Up at Night?

Climate change appears to be a bigger concern for consumers than recent media reports may have indicated. In the ground-breaking, global, quantitative consumer survey, “The Key to Confidence: Consumers and Textile Sustainability—Attitudes, Changing Behaviors, and Outlooks”, commissioned by the OEKO-TEX® Association in commemoration of its 25th Anniversary, climate change ranked third on a list of sixteen modern day worries on the minds of today’s consumers.

“The Key to Confidence” online study was conducted earlier this year with a worldwide sample of more than 11,000 clothing and home textile consumers. Designed and administered by global brand and sustainability research expert, Ellen Karp of Anerca International, the extensive study explored a broad assortment of consumer attitudes about textile sustainability including harmful substances, the industry’s environmental impact, and the social welfare of textile workers.

What Keeps Consumers Up at Night?

Climate change appears to be a bigger concern for consumers than recent media reports may have indicated. In the ground-breaking, global, quantitative consumer survey, “The Key to Confidence: Consumers and Textile Sustainability—Attitudes, Changing Behaviors, and Outlooks”, commissioned by the OEKO-TEX® Association in commemoration of its 25th Anniversary, climate change ranked third on a list of sixteen modern day worries on the minds of today’s consumers.

“The Key to Confidence” online study was conducted earlier this year with a worldwide sample of more than 11,000 clothing and home textile consumers. Designed and administered by global brand and sustainability research expert, Ellen Karp of Anerca International, the extensive study explored a broad assortment of consumer attitudes about textile sustainability including harmful substances, the industry’s environmental impact, and the social welfare of textile workers.

Prior to answering questions about clothing and home textiles in particular, consumers responded to several queries to gauge their attitudes about sustainability in general. To understand the relative importance of climate change, consumers were asked to pick the top five issues that worry them most from a list of sixteen political, economic, personal, and global problems. “Terrorism” ranked first with 49% of consumers listing it in their top 5, “illness and disease” was second with 42%, and “climate change” rated third with 41%. “My personal finances” came in fourth at 37%. “Opportunities for my children in the future” and “the political leadership in my country” tied for fifth with 31% each.

“Climate change has become a significant issue for consumers,” Karp concludes. “Erratic weather patterns, mounting scientific data, escalating political debate, and first-hand experience with environmental degradation combine to make climate change more of an immediate threat than people considered it to be just a decade ago.”

“For twenty-five years, OEKO-TEX® has helped reduce the use of harmful chemicals and increase sustainable manufacturing practices in the global textile supply chain,” says Anna Czerwinska, Head of Marketing and Communication at OEKO-TEX®. “Our certified clients are industry leaders in the production of compliant, high quality textiles that are tested for harmful substances and responsibly made with respect for the environment and employees. They will be well positioned to capitalize on the growing consumer demands for sustainable textile products.”

A webinar with Ellen Karp presenting the research findings can be viewed at https://rebrand.ly/oekotexTKTCweb. To learn more about “The Key to Confidence: Consumers and Textile Sustainability—Attitudes, Changing Behaviors, and Outlooks”, please contact Trish Martin at t.martin@oeko-tex.com or Anna Czerwinska at a.czerwinska@oeko-tex.com. Read more about the OEKO-TEX® portfolio of testing, certification, and label products at: www.OEKO-TEX.com

 

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OEKO TEX Sustainability
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OEKO-TEX® Service GmbH

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Elise Esser entwarf das Bienenwaben-Design, um damit auf das Bienensterben aufmerksam zu machen, zunächst für Modeartikel. Für die Autofolierung entwickelte sie es weiter. (c) Klaus Esser
Bee attentive
20.10.2017

„Bee attentive“ – Textilstudentin gewinnt Design Automotive Award mit Bienen-Muster

Textilstudentin Elise Esser hat mit einem ausgefallenen Design auf das Bienensterben aufmerksam gemacht. Damit konnte sie den Epson Design Automotive Award gewinnen. Aufgabe des gemeinsam von der EPSON Deutschland GmbH und der Hochschule Niederrhein ausgeschriebenen Designwettbewerbs war es, eine Folie für das elektrische Fahrzeug BMW i3 unter nachhaltigen Aspekten zu gestalten. Elise Esser entschied sich für blaue Bienenwaben.

„Blau steht für Technik, die Bienenwaben für die Natur und die Lichtreflektionen auf den Folien für die Elektrizität des Autos“, erklärt die 25-jährige Bachelorstudentin aus Düsseldorf ihr Design in einem kurzen Film, den Epson produziert hat. Ihr Design entstand im Rahmen des Projekts „The beauty in design – aesthetics and functions“ im Studiengang Designingenieur. Dort entwickelte sie das Design „Bee attentive“ – eine Zusammensetzung der Wörter „Biene“ und „Sei aufmerksam“ – eigentlich für die Mode. Für den Epson Automotive Award entwickelte sie das Design weiter.

Textilstudentin Elise Esser hat mit einem ausgefallenen Design auf das Bienensterben aufmerksam gemacht. Damit konnte sie den Epson Design Automotive Award gewinnen. Aufgabe des gemeinsam von der EPSON Deutschland GmbH und der Hochschule Niederrhein ausgeschriebenen Designwettbewerbs war es, eine Folie für das elektrische Fahrzeug BMW i3 unter nachhaltigen Aspekten zu gestalten. Elise Esser entschied sich für blaue Bienenwaben.

„Blau steht für Technik, die Bienenwaben für die Natur und die Lichtreflektionen auf den Folien für die Elektrizität des Autos“, erklärt die 25-jährige Bachelorstudentin aus Düsseldorf ihr Design in einem kurzen Film, den Epson produziert hat. Ihr Design entstand im Rahmen des Projekts „The beauty in design – aesthetics and functions“ im Studiengang Designingenieur. Dort entwickelte sie das Design „Bee attentive“ – eine Zusammensetzung der Wörter „Biene“ und „Sei aufmerksam“ – eigentlich für die Mode. Für den Epson Automotive Award entwickelte sie das Design weiter.

„Wir wollen mit dem Projekt auch ausloten, wie sich Design in einer sich stetig ändernden Produktionswelt, in der Maschinen miteinander kommunizieren, verändern muss. Was bedeutet Schönheit im Design im Jahr 2020?“ Das sagt Prof. Dr. Marina-Elena Wachs, die die Studentin Elise Esser betreut hat. Weitere Arbeiten in dem Projekt beschäftigten sich mit digitalen und handschriftlichen Zeichentechniken, mit Inspirationen aus Natur, Kunst und Mode oder mit einem interkulturellen Designdialog zwischen Deutschland und Südkorea.

Gedruckt wurden die Folien im Epson Solution Center umweltgerecht auf PVC-freien Folien. „Ich war sehr gespannt, wie das Design mit dem Auto harmoniert und bin mit dem Ergebnis sehr zufrieden“, sagt Elise Esser. Im Anschluss an den Wettbewerb entstand ein Film, in dem der nachhaltige Herstellungsprozess beschrieben sowie der Bezug zur e-mobility von BMW verdeutlicht wird.

„An diesem Ergebnis sieht man, wie wichtig und fruchtbar es ist, wenn Interessengeber verschiedener Disziplinen – in diesem Fall die Epson GmbH, BMW und Hochschule Niederrhein – nachhaltige Lösungen für die Zukunft generieren“, freut sich auch Professorin Marina Wachs.

 

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Hochschule Niederrhein

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