Huntsman Textile Dyeing And Finishing Won The Highest Honor Of The 2014 ICIS Innovation Award

Huntsman textile dyeing and finishing has won the 2014 ICIS innovation award with its revolutionary AVITERA SE ICIS dyestuff, and has become the first prize winner of the new award - "Best Innovation Award for environment and sustainability" (Innovation with Best Benefit to Environment or Sustainability Sustainability). The award aims to recognize the outstanding contribution of AVITERA SE dye in supporting the environmental and economic sustainability of the textile industry.

In a press release to announce the winners, the ICIS Innovation Award commended the AVITERA SE dye "is a major achievement in scientific and technological progress and has made a big step in helping the textile industry to meet the challenges of sustainability such as water saving, energy saving and emission reduction".

The judges also expressed their views on the AVITERA SE dye, saying that "it has a wide range of influence and conveys a very positive story to the public". The judges added: "we need dyes and textiles, but for a long time, they are considered to have problems with waste water. This innovation has solved an important problem. "

The ICIS Innovation Award, issued by ICIS, the world's largest petrochemical market information provider, is the most recognized and pursued award in the field of international chemicals. ICIS has launched a new "environment or sustainability" award to focus on the close ties in these areas and to encourage significant innovation in this area.

Hunsman Textile dyeing Global president Paul Hulme said: "with the increasing pressure on environment and competition, the textile industry is at an inflection point. These famous ICIS innovation awards once again affirmed that Huntsman's textile dyeing and finishing industry has been able to meet the real needs of the industry through continuous innovation so as to lead the industry to adapt to these changes.

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"The emergence of revolutionary AVITERA SE is the result of Huntsman Corp's insistence on the 3 basic principles of sustainability, innovation and cooperation." Paul Hulme added: "as the world's leading supplier of chemicals and dyes, we have always been working with customers and industry partners to find innovative solutions to help the industry achieve cost-effective production, improve the quality of textile products and reduce environmental impact."

　　 AVITERA SE Dyestuff is a compound reactive dye, which can help processing enterprises effectively shorten dyeing and washing cycle and improve production efficiency. Compared with the best existing technologies, AVITERA SE dye has the following advantages: saving 50% of water, reducing CO2 emissions by 50%, reducing salt consumption by 20%, and shortening the processing cycle time by 25%.

Huntsman textile dyeing and finishing company is the world's leading inventor of textile dyes and chemicals. The company uses 5% of its annual sales volume for research and technology development (R&T). It releases about 30~35 new products related to environment and sustainability each year. The company has more than 1100 patents and derivatives, and the contribution rate of new products to sales exceeds 5 in 5 years.