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The Textile Magazine
FEBRUARY 2012
bilities and transforms fabric dyeing
so that it can take place just about
anywhere. We hope more industry
leaders will join us in leveraging
this innovative technology in the
near future.”
Conventional textile dyeing re-
quires substantial amounts of water.
On average, an estimated 100-150
liters of water is needed to process
one kg of textile materials today.
Industry analysts estimate that more
than 39 million tonnes of polyester
will be dyed annually by 2015. Nike
says it expects DyeCoo’s supercriti-
cal fluid carbon dioxide, or “SCF”
CO2 dyeing technology, to have a
particularly positive impact in Asia,
where much of the world’s textile
dyeing occurs.
As this technology is brought to
scale, large amounts of water used
in conventional textile dyeing will
no longer be needed, nor will the
commensurate use of fossil fuel-
generated energy be required to heat
such large quantity of water. The re-
moval of water from the textile dye-
ing process also eliminates the risk
of effluent discharge, a known en-
vironmental hazard. The CO2 used
in DyeCoo’s dyeing process is also
reclaimed and reused.
DyeCoo is believed
to be the first company
to successfully apply
the SCF CO2 process
to the commercial dye-
ing of polyester fabric,
and research is already
underway to apply the
technology to other natu-
ral and synthetic fabrics.
The technology is safely
utilized at scale in other
industries such as the de-
caffeination of coffee and
the extraction of natural
flavors and fragrances.
DyeCoo Textile Sys-
tems B.V., founded
in March 2008, is the
world’s first supplier of industrial
CO2 dyeing equipment and is a
leading innovator in CO2 dyeing
technology and processes. DyeCoo
is a spin-off of the Dutch Feyecon
Group, an innovator in the field of
CO2 process technology.
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