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Sweden's imogo pioneers eco-friendly dye spraying system

  • Sweden
  • 6 min read
  • Apr 07, 2021
  • By Wang Xiao'e

The imogo founding team (L to R): Per Stenflo, Ellinor Nitt and Joacim Wellander © imogo

The startup’s dyeing and finishing solutions convert the most resource-consuming parts of textile value chains into sustainable processes, with virtually no wastewater and using less energy and chemicals

 
Although more sustainability initiatives are being implemented in the textile industry, most are about new eco-friendly fibers and a lot of the sustainable benefits are lost due to the “dirty” processes in the rest of the value chain, according to Per Stenflo, co-founder of Swedish startup imogo.
“This is something that we want to address and have a solution for that,” Stenflo told CompassList in a recent interview. The solution is imogo’s proprietary dye-spraying technology which requires a liquor ratio of around 0.5–1 liter for 1 kg of fabric. The extremely low ratio enables man...

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