Uniting for Water and Climate: The Measurable Impact of SUPER SYSTEMS+

Every year on March 22, people worldwide mark World Water Day: a time to celebrate water and take action on the global water crisis. This year, the date also coincides with Earth Hour, when millions switch off lights and pledge an hour of their time to the planet.

Together, these moments are a reminder that climate action is interconnected. Saving water, conserving energy, cutting carbon emissions and reducing pollution all go hand in hand. Protecting the Earth – our only home – requires all of it.

This is also the ethos behind Archroma’s SUPER SYSTEMS+ solutions. Incorporating innovative processing solutions and intelligent effects, these powerful end-to-end systems generate results on multiple fronts at the same time. They enable brands and mills to create value in their markets while offering measurable environmental impact, more durable colors and effects, and cleaner chemistry.

Cost savings are another key benefit for mills, achieved through reductions in water, energy, and steam consumption, minimized waste, improved operational efficiency, and right-first-time production.

With SUPER SYSTEMS+, brands and mills can select the impact they want to achieve in line with their sustainability goals: our IMPACT and IMPACT+ for maximum resource savings, high wash durability, beyond-compliance chemicals and standard processes with ZDHC Gateway MRSL Level 3 compliance.

Savings possible with IMPACT+ compared to FOUNDATION

The innovations behind SUPER SYSTEMS+

The SUPER SYSTEMS+ solutions suite draws on the industry’s most extensive product portfolio as well as Archroma’s most innovative tools and programs. Breakthrough products and technologies used in SUPER SYSTEMS+ solutions include:

• AVITERA® SE – a revolutionary breakthrough in the dyeing of cellulosic fibers and their blends, offering significant resource savings, an improved cost-to-performance ratio, and longevity of garments due to its exceptional multiple home laundering behavior.
• Blue Magic – a biodegradable all-in-one pretreatment that brings both economic and ecological advantages, delivering high whiteness with advanced brightening as well as simpler handler and improved uniformity and dye-ability.
• ERIOFAST® – a dye range free of detectable phenol, bisphenol compounds and formaldehyde that delivers intense, brilliant shades on polyamide/elastane fiber blends with outstanding wetfastness and washfastness and excellent migration, levelling, and color-blocking properties.
• ERIOFAST® FIX-01 – a phenol/bisphenol-free cross-linking agent that improves wetfastness properties and ensures stable and reproducible shades, without impacting fiber softness or hydrophilicity.
• ERIOPON® E3-SAVE – an advanced all-in-one auxiliary for polyester fibers and blends that significantly shortens the dyeing process and saves water and energy by combining pre-scouring, dyeing, and reduction clearing in a single bath.
• TERASIL® WW – high-performance washfast disperse dyes for polyester and its blends, offering outstanding washfastness and right-first-time performance and achieving rich, deep, and brilliant colors across the entire shade gamut.

SUPER SYSTEMS+ is supported by key tools such as SAFE EDGE+ and ONE WAY+ that aim to enhance communication and transparency of the value chain amidst challenging and evolving regulatory space.

• SAFE EDGE+ – a groundbreaking initiative that combines Archroma’s The Safe Edge platform and FOUNDATION+ product portfolio. It provides 24/7 online access to product-related regulatory and compliance certifications and expert notes, with the backing of a curated portfolio of beyond-compliance products that help mills and brands stay ahead of evolving regulations.
• ONE WAY+ – a bespoke model that helps brands and mills achieve measurable resource savings and productivity improvement using Archroma’s powerful ONE WAY Impact Calculator process simulation and calculation tool in combination with its expert-led Sustainability Improvement Program (SIP).

SUPER SYSTEMS+ are available for an extensive range of end-uses, from printed cotton to indigo and color denim, wool formal wear, bottom weights, and shirting. Discover more about SUPER SYSTEMS+.