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ECOFAST™ Pure Sustainable Fabric Treatment

Apparel made to be worn with integrity

How can ECOFAST™ Pure create apparel to be made, sold and worn with integrity? 

We help bring sustainability solutions in fashion to life—without sacrificing color and quality. The answer is ECOFAST™ Pure. This award-winning technology helps make a bold difference as a cationic cotton chemistry used before the fabric dyeing process. ECOFAST™ Pure doesn’t have the unpleasant odor of other cationic pretreatments and can help deliver several benefits.

90% less chemicals

With dyes, salt, and other additives.

50% less dye

With improved uptake.

50% less water

With fewer rinses.

40% less energy

With room-temperature dyeing.

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Keeping our planet top of mind

Wherever you are in the value chain, you can’t deny the impact that global fashion has on our world – our culture, economy, and planet. While this leading industry provides billions of us with colorful apparel, textile dyeing is the second largest cause of water pollution in the world. Dyeing also consumes 5 trillion liters of water each year, which is nearly enough to supply all humanity with drinking water.

 

By reducing the water, chemicals, dye, and energy required to color cotton textiles, we can help brands meet sustainability targets while also addressing climate change, water pollution and water scarcity.

Award-winning, ZDHC Roadmap-aligned solution for chemical-free fashion

ECOFAST™ Pure also meets the ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Program that leads the fashion industry to eliminate harmful chemicals from its global supply chain by building the foundation for better manufacturing to protect workers, consumers and our planet’s ecosystems and the Manufacturing Restricted Substances List (MRSL). It has also been Recognized with Sustainability 2020, Big Innovation 2020 and Edison industry awards.

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How we developed ECOFAST™ Pure to support sustainability solutions in fashion

Combining expertise for innovation

How a collaboration with Cotton Incorporated led to a deeper understanding of our technology in application and optimizations. 

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Samples of four fabrics / textiles PRODUCTS: 2-8805 Hydrophilic Emulsion 2-8818 Emulsion for fabric softening applications in clothing manufacturing

Advancements in cationic technology

Learn how ECOFAST™ Pure compares to other cationic chemistries, featuring Cotton Incorporated.

Our Life Cycle Assessment is third party reviewed and validated, putting our claims to the test

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We put typical cotton dyeing to the test vs. dyeing with ECOFAST™ Pure.

Sustainable colored cotton

Insights from our Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

See the savings sustainability solutions in dyeing methods can deliver.

How does ECOFAST™ Pure work?

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How colors can be more responsible

See how the clothes we wear help change the world.

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ECOFAST™ Pure in a textile mill

See the process of dyeing with ECOFAST Pure.

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