Environmental assessment of coloured fabrics and opportunities for value creation: spin-dyeing versus conventional dyeing of modal fabrics

Sustainable Value Creation with Life Cycle Management

“…These savings can reduce production costs. All technical details of the spun-dyed fabric LCA can be found in Terinte et al ( 2014 ).…”

“…Spun-dyed fi bers are developed against this background since these fi bers avoid the conventional dyeing process of fabrics. A detailed LCA for the environmental impacts of conventionally dyed fabrics and spun-dyed fabrics made of wood-based modal fi bers can be found in literature (Terinte et al 2014 ). Figure 11.3 shows the relevant context and drivers of the spun-dyed fi ber innovation.…”

Carbon footprints in the textile industry

“…Other studies from which guidance to carbon footprints of textile processes can be retrieved include the latest IMPRO report (Beton et al, 2014), the publication on spin dyeing of modal fibres by Terinte et al (2014), the study on recycling gains by Muthu et al (2012), the study on pad dyeing by Yuan et al (2012), the overview provided by Business for Social Responsibility (2009) and the French jeans study by Ademe (Labouze et al, 2006). These reports are not listed in the table above because greenhouse gas emissions of processes are only reported in relation to the final product, and adjustments in relation to process losses need to be made if data is to be used for the manufacturing process or plant carbon footprint.…”

“…Lenzing AG has produced carbon footprints of viscose and lyocell fibres and compared these with other fibres (Shen and Patel, 2008;Shen et al, 2010;Terinte et al, 2014;Van der Velden et al, 2014). ), dry spinning (elastane etc.)…”

Optimal selection of medium or high cost schemes in cleaner production for dyestuff industry based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

“…However, dyestuff industry, a traditional industry with high pollution and high energy consumption, discharges a large amount of waste water, waste gas and solid wastes [2]. Since the 21st century, global dye basic synthetic business has gradually transfered from the developed countries in Europe and the United States to Asian emerging markets, especially in India and China [3].Their semi-finished products and finished products output accounts for 80% of the world, which suggests that India and China have become global dyes production bases. The 13th Five-Year Plan has designed the construction of ecological civilization and Chinese government continues to strengthen the national requirements of environmental protection, which brings forward the higher request of energy-saving and emission-reduction in the dyestuff industries.…”