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Archroma inks partnership with DKTE's TT Institute

23 Feb '16

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Speciality chemicals producer Archroma and DKTE Society's Textile & Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji for Technical Textiles, have entered into a five year partnership.

“The partnership aims at sharing Archroma's globally recognised expertise in the area of technical textiles and nonwovens with the institute's faculty and students,” an Archroma press release informed.

The partnership was officially announced at a ceremony held on February 11, 2016 in Mumbai in the presence of Archroma's CEO Alexander Wessels and DKTE's principal Dr PV Kadole.

Under the terms of the partnership, Archroma will provide training sessions, as well as technical support and guidance to the students of the institute.

“In particular, DKTE's students will have access to some of Archroma's technical laboratories in India and Switzerland for projects, experiments and trials,” the press release added.

The students will also benefit from access to a range of functional products with application and performance characteristics critical to the industry.

“This will allow them to gain hands-on training and learning, and help develop innovative solutions for new industry entrants,” the Switzerland based company said.

According to Archroma, DKTE's faculty has expressed special interest in Archroma's Nuva N water and oil repellent solutions; Pekoflam non-halogenated flame retardant and Sanitised antimicrobials.

Other products in which the DKTE faculty has expressed interest include; Appretan solutions for textile strength and flexibility, or Hydroperm hydrophilisising agent.

Anjani Prasad, Archroma's Indian head of sales, Textile Specialties, said, “At Archroma, we continuously challenge the status quo in the deep belief that we can make our industry sustainable.”

“With this partnership, we want to take a new approach to knowledge sharing and help to prepare a new generation of textile experts, to the opportunities and challenges of our industry,” Prasad added.

“Thanks to our collaboration with Archroma, our institute and center of excellence for nonwovens will be an interface between the industry and consumers in order to improve article effectiveness”, Dr Kadole too said. (AR)

Fibre2Fashion News Desk – India

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