CHT Group adds BEZAKTIV Salt Advisor to its textile dyes app

CHT Group has added the BEZAKTIV Salt Advisor to its CHT Textile Dyes App, a calculation tool for cotton dyeing with BEZAKTIV reactive dyes. The model evaluates salt concentration changes of up to ±20 g/l against the standard recipe and shows the effect on total recipe cost. The tool is available free of charge to all users of the CHT Textile Dyes App and recalculates dye recipes when the salt level changes.

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Market context

Reactive dyes are the main class used to color cotton and other cellulosic fibers, forming covalent bonds with the fiber for good wash fastness. In cotton dyeing, dyebaths typically contain large amounts of salt, such as sodium chloride or sodium sulfate, which drive dye exhaustion onto the fiber. Demand for these dyes and salts therefore follows cotton apparel and home textile production, with major volumes concentrated in Asia, Turkey and other textile finishing hubs. Recipe optimization tools matter because salt and dye are two of the largest variable costs in a dyeing batch, and their use is sensitive to environmental discharge limits for effluent salinity. When finishers can reduce salt and dye per recipe with software rather than repeated lab trials, purchased volumes per kilogram of fabric can fall, putting pressure on dye suppliers to compete on performance, service and total process cost rather than on product volume alone.

Source: official release on cht.com. Summary and context written by Market Krystal.