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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. This includes fiber manufacturing via pre-treatment, dyeing, textile printing and flock together with finishing, coating and jeans & garments. 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.
As much as necessary, as little as possible
It’s that simple. CHT Washing Solutions are based on this simple and obvious principle: using exactly as much chemistry, water and energy for washing as is actually needed – always depending on the type of laundry and the degree of soiling. All this against the background of using as little energy, water and detergent as possible.
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.
Your laundry in the best hands - with CHT
- A complete range and innovative processes for all areas of modern textile care
- Compact and efficient dosing technology
- Professional expertise throughout the entire textile chain
- Comprehensive services for laboratory tests, advice and training, environmental and product safety
- Advice on energy management for industrial laundries
- Customized system solutions, individually adapted to the customer
- Innovative and high-performance washing processes such as SMART UV POWER or SMART PROTECTION
General Industries
This business field serves many different market segments: We mainly supply silicone specialties to the cosmetics and personal care industry for the formulation of consumer care products. We supply the release agents and lubricants industries with silicone products for foam control. Our range for the leather finishing industry includes specialty silicones for production and finishing. Our products also provide important added value as process aids in the agrochemical and mining industries.
Silicones are environmentally friendly and sustainable as well as versatile and durable in applications.
Andreas Mumoth
Head of BU Silicone Elastomers / Business Field General Industries
We also offer an innovative range of high-quality silicone elastomers for numerous industrial applications. The main areas of application are in model and mold making, the automotive industry, aerospace, electronics, LED technology, medical technology and the energy industry.
Silicones are regarded worldwide as products with a good CO2 footprint, as they are considered superior to other polymer raw materials and materials due to their durability and properties. They are also generally highly efficient as active ingredients and additives and can achieve the desired effects with lower input quantities. This benefits our customers and the environment in equal measure.
As a reliable partner to the paper and pulp industry, we formulate innovative and sustainable specialty chemicals for the production of paper and pulp, water treatment and paper finishing. We are setting new standards with our modern, environmentally friendly chemical additives. We also develop tailor-made chemical solutions for the industry segments packaging and graphic papers, tissue papers, fibers, specialty papers, decor papers, laminates and adhesives.
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 components for water-based coatings. This enables us to find technically innovative answers to their questions, which can also include specific new developments. Furthermore, it is important to us to support our customers with information and products that contribute to achieving climate targets such as the optimization of the CO2 footprint.
Dr. Matthias Koch
Head of Strategic Projects & Pricing / 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.