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Textile
The CHT Group is a strategic and innovative partner of the textile industry. Our vast range of sophisticated auxiliaries, function generators and textile dyes cover the complete textile chain, from fiber manufacturing via pre-treatment, dyeing, textile printing and flock up to finishing and coating and finally jeans & garment. Our customers in this market segment are textile manufacturers and textile finishing companies all over the world.
Our innovative chemical solutions make a significant contribution to a sustainable textile future. I am firmly convinced that my team at CHT will be successful together with our partners along the textile chain.
Benoit Moutault
Group Vice President Textile & Managing Director of CHT Switzerland
The CHT Group makes its contribution to establish sustainability aspects within the international textile value chain. Thereby, we support the goal of a worldwide compliance with uniform labor, social and environmental standards. To achieve this goal, we are working internally on our sustainability goals and are committed nationally and internationally at association level and with our customers, brands, partners, and NGOs.
For years, we have particularly focused on developing auxiliaries and dyes which help save energy, time, waste, and water in the production process. Here, we develop customer-oriented processes that are tailored to the production facilities and the articles to be manufactured.
As one of the leading suppliers of textile chemicals, we also see our responsibility in supporting our customers along the textile value chain in their sustainability activities. This means shortening transport routes and speeding up on-site service. In order to achieve this, textile auxiliaries are increasingly being produced locally within the textile producing countries. CHT is even going further and investing in new production facilities in key countries. In May 2023, the new production site in Bangladesh was inaugurated.
In addition, the textile industry is required to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions. This can be achieved by pursuing a balance between the consumption of natural resources and the reduction of energy and water consumption and waste generation.
CHT is the right partner for this task because we support our customers:
- Through a wide range of sustainably classified and labeled products
- CHT textile solutions support "Right First Time - Production": less rework, higher productivity, lower costs
- Reduction of production time
- Robust processes - reproducible quality
- Reduced water consumption
- Reduction of energy consumption
- Reduction of CO2 emissions in customers' plants
Washing Solutions
We mainly develop perfectly adjusted washing and care concepts which meet the requirements of modern laundries. Our current product and process development is not only focused on achieving excellent washing results but particularly on saving water, energy, and time and on using less chemicals.
Let’s make a start together! We make your way to less plastic as easy as possible. With a purely plant-based detergent of the latest generation and a refill system with which you can effortlessly save plastic: LAVECO+ and “My Bottle, please!”
Prince Charles Stevens
Head of Business Field Washing Solutions of CHT Group
Our customers include worldwide-operating industrial laundry groups that run supra-regional laundries and are often specialized in working clothes and hygiene processes.
Moreover, we also assist locally operating customers in the OPL segment. In general, these are smaller laundries, hotels, hospitals, and nursing homes. Companies finishing feather and down complete our customer portfolio.
In 2021, CHT expanded its textile care business toward the end-user customer market (B2C) with a purely plant-based household detergent for all textiles. The LAVECO+ detergent contains exclusively biodegradable chemicals. In addition, LAVECO+ offers a unique “unpackaged range” concept in the retail sector. Customers fill LAVECO+ into their own or purchased bottles at the specially developed filling machine in the supermarket and save a large amount of plastic packaging.
General Industries
This business field serves many different market segments: These include the paper and pulp industry (sophisticated process aids and special coatings), the cleaning and care agent industry (Consumer Care), the agrochemical and leather finishing industry (silicone specialties as process aids, function generators and additives) as well as the mining industry (process aids).
Silicones are environmentally friendly and sustainable as well as versatile and durable in applications.
Eva Baumann
Group Vice President Business Field General Industries
In addition to silicone oils, emulsions and defoamers, our silicone range includes silicone gels and gums.
In addition, we offer a broad range of sophisticated silicone elastomers for numerous industrial applications. The focus is on model and mold making, the automotive industry, aerospace, electronics, LED technology, medical engineering, pad printing and industrial bonding and sealing. All over the world, silicones are seen as products with a good CO2 balance as they are superior to other polymeric raw materials and materials due to their physical properties.
Construction & Assembly
As a producer and provider of additives and specialist chemicals for the paint and coatings industry and the construction materials industry, we have set the goal of supporting our customers with efficient components and innovative solutions. Our portfolio comprises wetting, dispersing and leveling agents, rheological additives, defoamers and wax formulations for surface modification as well as hydrophobic impregnating agents.
Our model for success is to be close to our customers and to supply them reliably with sustainable, water-based additives. Thus, we find technically innovative answers to customers’ questions and offer new solutions.
Dr. Bernd Schenzle
Group Vice President Business Field Construction & Assembly
The range of rheological additives is largely based on renewable raw materials such as guar and starch. Our customers mainly operate in the paint and coatings industry and produce, among others, interior and exterior wall paints, printing inks and overprint varnishes, automotive and industrial coatings as well as wood coatings. In the construction materials industry, we supply manufacturers of mortars, screeds, or fillers, as well as producers of cement, concrete and their finished products with natural rheological additives, plasticizers, anti-settling agents or hydrophobic impregnating agents.