Heat pumps are path to low‑carbon wet processing

For the past couple of years there have been increasing calls for electrification to be rolled out across the textile, and specifically wet processing, industry – the logic being that, ultimately, renewable resources such as wind, solar and nuclear will provide electricity that is almost free from carbon emissions.

This sounds like a ‘silver bullet’ but there are many challenges and complexities, not least because there are vast amounts of perfectly serviceable production machinery installed, fed by perfectly serviceable utilities, that are churning out vast amounts of products with measly profit margins.