Environmental Impact

Water should be pure, clean and life-sustaining. But there’s a growing problem with water pollution and most people don’t know about it. The cause of much of the world’s dirty water is hanging in our closets. The textile industry is quietly polluting trillions of liters of water every year, making it the second largest water polluter in the world.

There are more than seven billion people on the planet wearing and buying clothing. People use clothing to define their social status. The growing middle classes around the world are purchasing clothing at a much faster rate than the population growths and the global water supplies are being consumed at rapidly accelerating rates. The textile industry continues to use water for the production of textiles because there was no better alternative until now.

Using Clean Chemistry™, GREEN THEME TECHNOLOGIES, INC. has developed the revolutionary EMPEL™ process that permanently bonds finishes to fibers – all without using a single drop of water or releasing any hazardous discharge.

Water free production involves several breakthrough innovations;

1. The EMPEL process starts with a Hydrocarbon monomer base. Unlike conventional textile production, our breakthrough process uses no water to carry chemicals onto the fabrics. Traditional water bath production processes generate trillions of liters of polluted water that regularly gets discharged into streams and oceans around the world.
2. Every drop of our monomer chemistry is applied to the fabric and nothing is wasted. Normal water based production processes create a water bath to wash performance chemistries onto fabrics.  This process called “padding” requires the “bath water” to be changed frequently because it gets contaminated in the application process. The EMPEL™ process applies the monomer solution directly to the fabric eliminating the padding process.  Removing the traditional wet padding from the GTT production process eliminates another source of pollution   produces no hazardous discharge, no waste, no off-gassing, and is non-toxic. We can now combine functional features to fabrics for different industries that were previously impossible using historic water-based finishes.
3. Once the chemistry is cured into the polymer form and molecularly bonded to the fibers, no additional washing is required.

The environmental benefits of water free textile production are obvious. Logic demands that we adopt better production processes to protect the future of our water resources. GTT is UNCOMPROMISING in two ways, we will not produce products that do not OUTPERFORM the existing technical fabrics, nor will we use polluting or dangerous chemicals or manufacturing processes to make our products work better The GTT philosophy is simple, better products for a cleaner environment.  We think that giving people the best performance while cleaning up the environment should be the plan for the future.  Our best solution to avoid polluting water, don’t use any.