A new family of products for pretreatment make it easier for textile processors to conform to eco-directives
The appearance of new regulations like Annex 38 of the Waste-Water Ordinance, as well as textile eco-standards and quality schemes continually confronts the textile processor with new challenges. BASF, as a major supplier of products for textile finishing, is now providing the textile industry with support in a particularly thorough-going and future-oriented form. The key word is ECOFIT - an acronym that stands for products that are "ecologically and technically adapted to the requirements of tomorrow", as Ulrich Schütze, in charge of the ECOFIT programme for pretreatment at BASF AG, emphasizes. In addition, because the products of the ECOFIT range can optimize pretreatment processes, they also make good economic sense.
In addition to Annex 38 of the Waste-Water Ordinance, the ECOFIT pretreatment range fully conforms to the voluntary regulations of textile auxiliary manufacturers (in the TEGEWA Association) who classify all auxiliaries into three categories according to their significance as waste- water pollutants. None of the ECOFIT pretreatment agents falls into Class III - products that are highly significant as waste-water pollutants. Dr Ingrid Steenken-Richter - Product Safety and Environmental Protection, Performance Chemicals for Textiles, BASF - says, "Textiles treated with ECOFIT products also fulfil the specifications of Öko-Tex Standard 100 and the EU European Flower label, the two most significant internationally recognized eco-labels of the textile industry."
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