Partnership promotes cleaner fabric dye and finishing

Green Theme Technologies (GTT), based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has teamed up with Golden Long John to promote the next generation of cleaner and more efficient fabric dye and finishing processes. GTT is the creator of the waterless and PFAS-free EMPEL® textile finishing platform. An extremely durable product, it brings longevity to any textile or product using it. 

The textile manufacturing industry generates trillions of gallons of wastewater each year. Traditional textile dyeing and finishing rinses chemical dyes and water repellency onto fabrics. This generates post-production toxic water, which is then dumped into rivers and oceans.

Last year Golden Long John, a major textile supplier to the global footwear industry, introduced GTT’s EMPEL® finishing platform in their Vietnam factories. Their partnership has led to the combination of their two technologies, the EMPEL® high-performance, water-repellent finish and Golden Long John’s direct-dye process. 

“We believe, cleaner is better, and this is a big step forward for the fashion and textile industries,” said Martin Flora, president of GTT business development. “Similar to GTT’s EMPEL® application, Golden Long John applies dye chemistry directly onto fabrics. Better performance with much less pollution is our vision for the future.”