Viyellatex Ltd., country’s 100 per cent export-oriented company, wants to take sustainable environmental business to the next level by producing goods with minimum carbon footprints and reduce per capita energy and water usage through latest technologies and usages.
The company, whose clients include Marks & Spencer, Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, Puma, Timberland, Esprit, Tommy Hilfiger, and Hawes & Curtis, has recently installed seven new Thies iMaster H2O dyeing range, saving all round on utilities such as water, gas and electricity and savings on dye stuff and chemicals.
Linked to innovations and technological developments in textile dyeing and finishing machineries for over a century, Thies iMaster H2O is a completely new design of rope dyeing machine for the processing of knit and woven goods.
“We have for some years now operated our own dye house, using a mix of Thies and Chinese-built equipment. The capacity was 30 tonnes per day, and as we are planning future growth in dyeing and garments, we decided to expand upon this,” says Kazi Monjurul Islam, Viyellatex’s Chief Operating Officer.
The iMaster H2O have various capacities and usually loaded to about 95 per cent capacity. Monjurul says that the dyeing cycle varies according to the depth of the colour. “The light colours take less time than the deeper colours. We work on the basis of an average of 3 to 4 batches per day,” he says.
“The very low liquor ratio which is varying between 1:4 and 1:5 is providing us with cost-effective dyeing. There is of course some tolerance, but the overall water consumption comes to 35-40 litres/kg of dyed fabric. With the iMaster H2O our water, electricity and gas usage has decreased,” concludes Monjurul.
