SPONSORED CONTENT – Archroma’s roadmap to sustainability and business resilience
The textile industry’s path to sustainability is becoming more complex and challenging. Brands, mills, and suppliers today face mounting regulatory pressure, escalating supply chain complications, and an increasingly challenging business environment. Economic uncertainty, weaker demand, and shifting consumer behavior suggest a sluggish 2025 is ahead.
Despite these hurdles, staying on track to achieve sustainability targets remains essential. Doing so will not only help reduce the risks of non-compliance, but also safeguard your long-term efficiency and competitive advantage.
As a preferred supplier of specialty textile chemicals, dyes and digital inks to the world’s top textile and apparel brands and mills, Archroma recognizes that we have a responsibility to lead our industry towards a sustainable future. We believe in challenging the status quo through innovation and partnership with a dual focus on consumers and the environment.
This perspective is encapsulated in PLANET CONSCIOUS+.
PLANET CONSCIOUS+ is a roadmap designed to support brands, mills, and Archroma itself on our sustainability journey. It has six dimensions that work together to advance what’s possible on multiple fronts at the same time:
- INNOVATION+: Our R&D teams harness cutting-edge science, process expertise, and in-depth market, customer, and regulatory knowledge. Leverage our groundbreaking solutions to offer consumers the aesthetics and value they seek while delivering a positive environmental impact.
- COLOR MANAGEMENT+: Our advanced color design and development solution incorporates the industry’s largest off-the-shelf color library – with more than 5,700 unique colors – alongside color standards created with Archroma’s SUPER SYSTEMS+. This enables brands and mills to collaborate globally for improved sustainability with perfect color reproduction.
- SUPER SYSTEMS+: Drawing on the industry’s most extensive product portfolio, we combine our most innovative fiber-specific processing solutions and intelligent effects into SUPER SYSTEMS+. These powerful end-to-end systems improve on current technologies to deliver measurable environmental impact, more durable colors and effects, and cleaner chemistry.
- ONE WAY+: Adding our One Way Impact Calculator, an industry-first online tool for sustainable value chain mapping, to our expert-led Sustainability Improvement Program, we help you optimize your efficiency and productivity, save resources, and stand out in your markets with value-added end-products.
- SAFE EDGE+: Bringing together Archroma’s trusted Safe Edge online compliance-checking platform with our FOUNDATION+ portfolio, we provide a fast track to cleaner chemistries. All the FOUNDATION+ products exceed our baseline of ZDHC Gateway Level 3 compliance by either designing out hazardous or regulated substances or reducing them by more than 95% compared to current industry standard limits.
- COMMUNICATION+: We provide authentic, fact-based information so you can communicate your sustainability goals and achievements with confidence and promote trust and transparency.
By embracing innovation and collaboration under PLANET CONSCIOUS+, you can be empowered to overcome challenges, meet sustainability goals, and secure a resilient future. To learn more, visit https://www.archroma.com/markets/planet-conscious-plus
