Loepfe partners with Loptex for contamination detection

Loepfe Brothers and Loptex have
recently announced a distinguished strategic collaboration targeted at further
improving yarn quality and productivity for spinning mills.

Both companies have a long track
record of supporting spinning industry customers with latest technology to
improve their performance and profitability. This new collaboration brings
Loepfe’s YarnMaster Prisma and YarnMaster Zenit+ yarn clearers together with
Loptex Exa and Centra sorters for a complete solution supplied by Loepfe.

This integrated offering combines the
advantages of eliminating contamination at the opening stages of production
with additional refinement of the yarn further down the line at the winding
stage. The net result for spinning mills is production of the highest quality
yarns while generating less waste, greater machine efficiency and less energy
consumption.

Loptex CEO, Renato Gerletti, commented: “We welcome this collaboration which harnesses the
strengths of both the Loptex and Loepfe products for our customers. There are
many synergies between the approaches of our two companies, not least of these
being our dedication to using leading edge technology to deliver great results
for spinning mills everywhere.”

Loepfe CEO, Dr Ralph Mennicke, added: “We are looking forward to working with the Loptex team.
Next to our in-house R&D commitments, this is a complementary partnership
that puts customer needs first and will deliver a vital combination of top
quality and greater productivity to textile mills. As the industry emerges from
one of the most difficult trading periods in living memory, we continue to be
committed to rolling out new and innovative solutions over the months and years
to come.”

Head: Archroma becomes ‘The BHive’
partner

Short title: Archroma is BHive
partner

Intro: Archroma becomes ‘The BHive’
partner to help foster chemical compliance and management across the textile
supply chain.

Keywords: Archroma, The BHive,
sustainable textile solutions, chemical compliance, digital chemical management

Archroma, a global leader in
specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, recently announced that it
has become a The BHive® partner to help foster chemical compliance and
management across the textile supply chain.

The BHive® is an innovative digital
chemical management platform that provides at-a-glance information about
chemical products to its users. It was developed by GoBlu International Ltd. to
allow manufacturing facilities to easily create digital inventories of the
chemical products used onsite using a smartphone. They can identify in a matter
of seconds which products meet sustainability requirements of their brand and
retail customers, who they can share this information with as well. This
enables brands and retailers to achieve full transparency about the chemical
use in their global supply chain. Now, over 30 international fashion brands and
500 factories are partnered with The BHive® to drive sustainable chemistry in
the textile and fashion industry.

More than 2000 Archroma chemical
products and dyes are now included in The BHive® database. The company has been
very active in the past few years in developing solution systems and
innovations in line with the 3 pillars of ‘The Archroma Way to a Sustainable
World: Safe, efficient, enhanced. It’s our nature’.

As part of this commitment, the
global and local product stewardship teams of Archroma support customers in
their efforts to comply with regulations, eco-certifications, and brand
requirements with timely and reliable information and documentation.

Paul Cowell, Head of Archroma’s Competence Centers for Brand &
Performance Textile Specialties,
explained: “With the pandemic crisis, textile manufacturers are
experiencing numerous logistic bottlenecks and challenges. With The BHive®, our
partners have now an additional access path to the information about chemical
usage and compliance for the Archroma products they keep at their
facilities.”

Lars Doemer, Managing Director of GoBlu International Ltd, added: “We are pleased to announce our new partnership with
Archroma and support their drive for more sustainable chemistry in the textile
industry. We look forward to working together in the future.”