22 Sept 2011
Performance that innovates – innovations that perform: Clariant at ITMA 2011
Muttenz, 22 September 2011 – Clariant is launching more than 25 product, process and effect innovations during its daily “innovation sessions” at ITMA 2011. The new products add to an already unique portfolio and confirm Clariant as the innovation company in the textile chemicals industry. Clariant is a matchless system supplier of customized solutions and elevates the standards of the entire textiles value chain by offering benefits to all customers.
The company’s focus on closely intertwined concepts for spot-on solutions that meet the demands of sustainability, protection, performance and fashion will be highlighted throughout the event at Booth H4-A150-151.
Sustainability
Clariant demonstrates its response to the challenge to make textile processes more sustainable with products, processes and know-how technology that address environmental concerns. These include:
- The new Pekoflam® system is a fundamental breakthrough in durable FR (fire retardant) finishes and heralds a new generation in the production of FR protective textiles. Clariant’s innovative, bi-component system, Pekoflam® ECO and Pekoflam® SYN, meets the needs of the textile industry for a more sustainable and high performance FR application that can be used with existing equipment and is free* of Oeko-Tex®1) restricted materials2), commonly still found in certain FR.
Visit the innovation session at our booth on Thursday, September 22 – Sustainable Protection: Clariant launches a new durable eco flame retardant finishing.
- Clariant’s Foam Eco Care finishing sets a new benchmark in wrinkle-free finishes. This has been achieved with a new foam-based application improving fabric quality, cutting down production processes and generating benefits in water, energy and time savings.
Visit the innovation session at our booth on Saturday, September 24 – Foam Eco Care: Clariant cooperates with Cotton Incorporated to introduce resin finishing in a new dimension.
- Clariant’s new all-in-one bleaching auxiliary is the key to the new Blue Magic process.
Based on Imerol® Blue liquid, it generates both economic and ecological advantages: water savings of 50%, energy usage cut by 40% and it reduces process time by half. Besides its advanced brightening effect, Blue Magic adds up to higher productivity, simplified handling, better uniformity and improved dye-ability, with less impact on the environment.
Visit the innovation session at our booth on Monday, September 26 – Bleaching and dyeing of cellulosic fibers: the Blue Magic process accompanied by new innovations in reactive dyeing.
Protection
Clariant provides technical textile solutions that apply to any sector, from military and emergency services, to extreme environments and leisure pursuits. Highlights at ITMA:
- Microcapsule composite blend Nuva® N1811 delivers superior performance in repellency, stain protection and durability. The technology allows further crosslinking and efficient crystallization of the fluoro side chains which makes the overall finish highly efficient.
- New finishing and technical textile products, including new non-fluorinated water repellent agents, and the new Pekoflam® flame retardant technologies.
- Optifix® CLC liq opens new creative possibilities and improves chlorine fastness for dyes and prints on PA and PA/EL, particularly for swimwear articles as well as cellulosic fibers and their blends.
Performance
Clariant presents new performance-enhancing products for all the links in the textile chain. The multi-faceted range incorporates auxiliaries for package and beam dyeing, migration inhibitors for continuous dyeing, and disperse dyes with outstanding wet fastness properties. Featured developments include:
- New Foron® shades with high fastness. The Foron® S-WF range of dyes continues to expand and the color spectrum broadens to include three new shades — Turquoise for bright greens that can match cotton standards, Vermillion for bright reds and Atlantic Blue, a greenish blue dye as a metamerism control element.
Visit the innovation session at our booth on Tuesday, September 27 – Performance: High wetfast disperse dyes Foron® S-WF.
- Afilan® MF3 liq: Spin finish for manufacture of staple fibers based on recycled polyester for nonwoven applications.
- Chlorine-resistant optical brighteners, such as Leucophor® BMBB and the Hostalux® ACK brighteners.
- Solusoft® SIH, a new hydrophilic silicone micro-emulsion which supplies a super-soft handle. It is suitable for all types of fibers.
…and Fashion
On September 23, 2011 Clariant launches an exciting new development that illustrates its commitment to provide know-how and technology to match the lifestyle of today’s end consumer:
- Quiospheres®3), a new high tech cosmetic microencapsulation for textile applications with proven benefits providing a feeling of well-being and wellness. It is a combination of high value cosmetic ingredients and a high tech encapsulation technique.
The microencapsulations are designed into a technology which makes it possible for them to be applied homogenously on fabrics or garments. A gradual release and “transphere” of this care cosmetic is delivered by the reaction or activities of our natural skin enzymes and the new active tailored molecules of the capsules.
Visit the innovation session at our booth on Friday, September 23 – Functional Fashion: Clariant presents Quiospheres®3) its new cosmetotextiles product line developed with Lipotec.
- Double Black. A synergy of dyeing technologies that creates the most stunning, deepest black shades under any lighting conditions, with great flexibility and excellent washfastness; designed to excite the fashion industry and possibly frustrate the paparazzi.
- Acid dyes with high fastness properties even in dark shades but without heavy metals.
Brilliant acid dyes which bring a new color dimension in brightness: Lanasyn® Flavine F-5G.
Visit the innovation session at our booth on Sunday, September 25 – New elements for sustainable acid dyes.
Valued partnership
Complementing the portfolio at the Clariant ITMA booth will be the integrated Sanitized®4) range of antibacterial additives – that can be combined with the Clariant innovations – including real alternatives to products containing triclosan such as Sanitized®4) Silver, TH 22-27 or T 99-19.
Masterbatches
Clariant’s experts for adding color and functionality to synthetic fibers from the Business Unit Masterbatches will be available at the booth throughout the event.
Masterbatches delivers a wide range of solutions for traditional polyolefin, polyester and nylon fibers as well as newer polymers such as PLA and PTT. Coloring products range from singlepigment concentrates to customized color masterbatches. Performance solutions can be delivered in the form of discrete additive masterbatches or together with color in a convenient “combibatch” form. These products can add durability, lightfastness, flame retardancy and many other performance properties. For instance, the new state of the art masterbatch plant in Italy produces additive masterbatches that incorporate specific pyrethroid insecticides which are added to the polypropylene and polyethylene fibers woven into insect netting. These products are used to produce mosquito nets which are recommended by the WHO.
To assist textile customers in the development and application of these and many other technologies, Clariant provides color matching and counter-typing and technical consultation services. More than 50 manufacturing facilities around the world support a network of ten dedicated Fiber Centers located strategically in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Innovation sessions
The “from fiber to finish” textile technology supplier will organize six “innovation sessions” to demonstrate the on-going developments that support its position as a leading innovator and technical partner across all areas of textile production.
The six events will be open to customers as well as journalists serving the industry – Join us on each of the following days at 12:00 (noon) on our booth H4-A150-151:
Thursday, September 22:
Sustainable Protection: Clariant launches a new durable eco flame retardant finishing, Pekoflam® ECO/SYN
Friday, September 23:
Functional Fashion: Clariant presents Quiospheres®3) its new cosmetotextiles product line developed with Lipotec
Saturday, September 24: Foam Eco Care: Clariant cooperates with Cotton Incorporated to introduce resin finishing in a new dimension
Sunday, September 25:
New elements for sustainable acid dyes with Nylosan® and Lanasyn®
Monday, September 26:
Sustainability: Bleaching and dyeing of cellulosic fibers: the Blue Magic process accompanied by new innovations in reactive dyeing
Tuesday, September 27:
Performance: High wetfast disperse dyes Foron® S-WF
Reader enquiries
Clariant International Ltd
Rothausstrasse 61
4132 Muttenz 1
Switzerland
Notes for editors
Clariant is an internationally active specialty chemical company based in Muttenz near Basel. The group owns over 100 companies worldwide and employed approx. 16,200 employees as of December 31, 2010. In the financial year 2010, Clariant produced a turnover in excess of CHF 7 billion. Clariant is divided into twelve business units: Additives; Catalysis & Energy; Detergents & Intermediates; Emulsions; Functional Materials; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Leather Services; Masterbatches; Oil & Mining Services; Paper Specialties; Pigments; Textile Chemicals.
Lipotec SA, is a Spanish Company located in Gavà near Barcelona that researches, designs and produces advanced active ingredients and delivery systems for cosmetics. Lipotec is becoming in recent years one of the leading suppliers of cosmetic active ingredients in the world.
Cotton Incorporated, funded by U.S. growers of upland cotton and importers of cotton and cotton textile products, is the research and marketing company representing upland cotton. The program is designed and operated to improve the demand for and profitability of cotton.
SANITIZED AG is the leading worldwide producer of antimicrobial hygiene function and material protection for textiles and plastics. For over 50 years this pioneering Swiss company has used the latest technology to develop individual antimicrobial hygiene solutions. SANITIZED AG is committed to responsible ecological practices with products that use only scientifically researched and registered antimicrobial active ingredients that have undergone strict, internationally approved human and environmental risk assessments. The company also offers support for marketing and technical queries and comprehensive testing services. It is a universally recognized brand and license concept. Its global distribution partner is Clariant International Ltd.
® = Product and service marks protected by Clariant in many countries
®1) = Registered trademark of Forschungsinstitut Hohenstein Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mecheels GmbH & Co. KG
2) = Oeko-Tex® Limit Values and Fastness Ausgabe / Edition 01.01.2011
®3) = Registered trademark of Lipotec SA, Barcelona, Spain and patent protected technology
®4) = Registered trademark of Sanitized Marketing AG
* = Below limit of detection
Editorial enquiries
Dominik Schneider
Clariant International Ltd
dominiks.schneider@clariant.com
Paulien Boumans
EMG