Jeanologia, the Spanish specialist in sustainable technologies for garment finishing, will make an exclusive presentation next month at textile and garment machinery exhibition ITMA Milan of its Zero Discharge Production center, said to be the first jeans-finishing plant that guarantees zero contamination.
Jeanologia’s “Zero” technology recycles 100 percent of the water used, eliminating the need for water treatment and the use of pumice stone. The company said the Zero Discharge Production Center will revolutionize the textile industry because, for the first time, a denim treatment plant will achieve zero waste thanks to the efficient combination of the company’s three technologies: the light of the laser, wet and dry Ozone G2, and the nanobubbles of the reactor eFlow — with “zero concessions on the final look,” the company said.
The combination of the company’s laser, G2 and eFlow technologies reduces water consumption by 90 percent, the use of chemicals by 90 percent and energy consumption by 50 percent.
For Jeanologia’s chief executive officer, Enrique Silla, the introduction of the “The Zero” center “represents a revolution in the textile industry” because “at Jeanologia we have managed to transform the way that jeans are produced, by way of technologies that reduce the use of water, chemicals and energy, and we are now taking this transformation a step further with our Zero technology, which recycles the water used and eliminates any waste.”
Jeanologia, based in Valencia, believes its intelligent treatment plant will achieve a water saving of 315 million cubic meters, and that by 2020, 80 percent of global production will be generated by Zero Discharge centers.
The company also said the advances in the optimization of production processes will also result in the reduction of waiting times and in the adaptation to large and smaller scale production.
Jeanologia, which has annual sales of about $32.5 million, has clients in 45 countries over five continents, and its exports of machines and services account for 90 percent of sales. Key markets are the U.S., Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Tunisia, Portugal, India, China, Russia, Japan, Morocco, Bangladesh, Turkey and Vietnam.
