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THE TEXTILE MAGAZINE
AUGUST 2011
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footprint is used to de-
scribe the complete greenhouse gas
emissions which are associated with
a product. Awareness is only given
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nounced. For textile products Ben-
ninger is taking over at the global
level the leading role to inform end-
users about the carbon footprint of
textiles. Textile engineers and ex-
perts receive detailed information
about each single textile process and
recipe. This will open new sights and
strengthen the awareness to avoid
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emissions.
These are the triggers for new in-
novations and for a cleaner world.
Any visitor of the Benninger booth at
ITMA can discover with its expertise
his own textile footprint.
Benninger has chosen several op-
tions to show carbon reductions in
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ber of drying processes, minimizing
steam and water consumption during
washing processes, thanks to high ef-
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resource intensive exhaust dyeing
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Upgrading quality stand-
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huge amount of arable land and ir-
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ing since years and reached a peak in
2010. Especially long staple cotton
is hardly available. As a consequence
more and more short stable cotton is
used.
Mercerizing is getting more and
more important in order to keep the
high quality standard. The worldwide
cotton shortage leads to a remarkable
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such as viscose and tencel.
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ufacturing plants allow to produce
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received from trees with embedded
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and water consumption is only
1/50 compared to cotton farming.
Benninger will present at ITMA
a new mercerizing concept which
is suitable for mercerizing cotton,
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for both woven and knitted fabrics.
Mercerized or causticized textiles do
require less chemicals and less dye-
stuff in the textile processing chain.
Benninger’s wet on wet mercerizing
concept does not require a resource
intensive intermediated drying stage.
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reduced by 40 per cent.
Washing on Benninger’s high ef-
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mechanical supported front and back
washing reduces water consumption
by more than 50 per cent compared to
classical washers. Simultaneously, the
energy required to heat up the wash-
ing water (biggest carbon polluter) is
reduced. This has its biggest impact
on carbon reduction. Additionally the
integrated heat recovery system and
the insulation of the washing box re-
duce the energy requirement.
Despite the massive efforts of ma-
chine designers to reduce the liquor
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dyeing machines still requires large
amounts of water and therefore also
large amounts of energy. By contrast,
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also offers savings, particularly in
terms of water and energy. In con-
ItMA 2011
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