It was a half day Seminar based on “GST- Green Sustainable Textile (Processing)”at the Darbar Hall of DKTE textile college in Ichalkaranji. Subhash Bhargava, MD, Colorant Ltd was the Guest of Honour. In his address he told the textile industry creates significant environment effects throughout the life cycle of textile products. Green chemistry principles form an integral part in product development where costs can be substantially lowered due to diminished use of dyes and chemicals, energy and water.
Being one of the technical speaker Dr. Mahapatra, President, Colorant Ltd spoke about the GSD(Green Sustainable Dyes) in which he mentioned about the role of Colorant in introducing in the market Sustainable Dyes time to time. He emphasised on using Colron CN and Colron SF dyes for Light/Medium shades and Colron GLX/Colron CES dyes to be used for Dark/Heavy Dark Shades. All these dyes are giving very good results all over India and abroad. It will save Chemicals, time, energy, dyes and less Effluent Load. The seminar was arranged by the SDC India officials and attended by Kolhapur and Ichalkaranji textile process house owners, students, faculty and technicians. There was technical interaction between the audience and Colorant technical team represented by Umesh Patil MS (China) Technical Service Manager and a DKTE alumni.