Our Process
Backing each of our products is our innovative approach to problem solving. For many of our clients, the greatest inefficiencies and manufacturing costs originate during the textile preparation, bleaching and dyeing processes.
Innova specializes in the optimization and improvement of both batch and continuous textile preparation processes. With Innova's proprietary anhydrous process™, we use of the least amount of water possible to bleach cellulosic materials.
Batch processing
During batch textile preparation, material is processed and transformed from griege goods to dyed and finished fabric. Various forms of machinery used for batch process such as package, jig and jet, which are utilized to convert the griege fabric to dyed and finished material.
Improving Your Supply Chain
The traditional machinery used for the batch textile preparation is rarely configured to leverage the latest technologies and chemical applications. Our anhydrous process™ enables us to target this batch textile preparation area of the supply chain and reduce energy consumption. These reductions allows for an increase in productivity, reduction of water and energy as well as a reduction of corrosive chemicals.
Positively Impacting Sustainability
Our anhydrous process™ can improve water utilization, machine efficiency and reduce the chemicals required to produce the same textile material, while utilizing the same textile machinery.
When textile manufacturers implement our sustainable anhydrous process™, they begin to see some of the following benefits almost immediately:
- Reduced water consumption
- Improved machinery efficiency without machinery modifications
- Reduction in corrosive chemicals
- Reduction of time water and energy
- Minimal impact on the formulation cost for manufacturers
Continuous Processing
Designed so material flows through a series of machines from start to finish, a continuous processing configuration, transforms an unprepared textile to a bleached, prepared or dyed piece of fabric. Usually allocated for large volume production of woven materials, continuous processing is typically done on pad steam ranges requiring an extensive supply of water and energy.
Different from a batch process, the continuous textile processing typically uses 90% of the water and energy to remove contaminates or to rinse the fabric after the bleaching phase. This process has remained virtually unchanged for over 50 years with very little innovation to the process as well as the chemistry.
*Example of a continuous range
Pioneering a New Fabric Neutralization Process to Reduce Energy
At Innova, we have pioneered a new, anhydrous process™ to dramatically reduce the water and energy required to neutralize the fabric after being bleached.
Traditional processes require between 4 and 5 wash boxes to neutralize and remove residual chemicals required to bleach cotton. With Innova's anhydrous process™, we reduce required wash boxes down to only 1. This new application allows for water reduction up to 75%.