Brand CasesBrands Joining Hands with Suppliers to Continue a New Chapter in Water Conservation and Sustainable Development of Water Recycling

Publication Date:2023-09-15
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Kai Ping Panther Textiles Co., Ltd was invested and built in 1995. It is a large-scale textile enterprise that integrates spinning, weaving, dyeing and printing. The company is committed to the develop energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and functional fabrics, and has been awarded honors such as "Innovative Cotton Textile Enterprise for Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction", "National Textile Industry Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Technology Application Demonstration Enterprise", and "Jiangmen City level Clean Production Enterprise". It has also been awarded system certificates such as ISO50001 and ISO14001.
In terms of energy conservation and water conservation, the company has always attached great importance to implementing various practical energy-saving projects. In terms of water conservation, the company has successively completed the recycling of condensed water from drying cylinders, cooling water from production machines, and the wastewater from mercerizing machines. In 2021-2022, it was awarded the title of "Guangdong Textile Industry Energy Efficiency (Water Efficiency) Leader Enterprise" by the Guangdong Textile Association, and in 2022, it was recognized as a "Jiangmen Water-saving Enterprise" by the Jiangmen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology.
Kontoor Brands - one of our customers targets to water savings during the fabric construction phase of the apparel supply chain through the expansion of the Indigood™ program, including additional water saving technologies, giving suppliers the opportunity to select the water savings technologies that work best for their production, encouraging denim mills across the globe to adopt radically different water saving technologies in the vein of indigo foam dye. Additional approved technologies include increased water recycling, advancements in the dyeing process and fabric finishing innovations. Kontoor Brands works with independent third parties to validate factory's water data and the factory will be preliminarily rated: Gold Status, Silver Status, and Bronze Status based on the actual freshwater conservation situation of the factory. At the beginning of 2022, the factory rated Bronze Status through the third-party verification. In 2021, the unit consumption per meter of the product was 22.1L, which achieved 33.8% water savings compared to the unit consumption of 28.9L in 2018.
    In 2022, to further improve the environment and save energy, the company implemented the upgrading and technological transformation project of the textile printing and dyeing environmental protection and energy conservation system (reclaimed water recycling project). The project mainly upgraded and renovated the printing and dyeing wastewater treatment system, added advanced treatment equipment such as ultraviolet lamp sterilization and multimedia filtration to the original wastewater treatment process, so that about 15% of the wastewater can be recycled and reused. The unit consumption per meter of the product was about 9L, which achieved 65% water savings compared to 28.9L per meter in 2018.


  
In 2023, based on the normal and stable operation of the project, the company plans to expand the scale of the reclaimed water recycling project, and the sewage recycling rate will be further increased to 40% -50%. Based on the water consumption in 2022, the unit consumption per meter is expected to decrease to around 2L, achieving 90% water resource conservation compared to 2018, make further contribution to the protection of the environment.In 2023, based on the normal and stable operation of the project, the company plans to expand the scale of the reclaimed water recycling project, and the sewage recycling rate will be further increased to 40% -50%. Based on the water consumption in 2022, the unit consumption per meter is expected to decrease to around 2L, achieving 90% water resource conservation compared to 2018, make further contribution to the protection of the environment.
Eliminating high energy consumption and outdated production capacity, increasing the investment in environmental protection equipment, it increases enterprises’ investment in the short term, but in the long term, it saves production energy consumption and reduced production costs, which has great significance for improving the economic benefits of enterprises. At the same time, emphasizing the development of the ecological environment allows the entire economic development to enter a cycle of conscientious development, ultimately achieving the goal of sustainable development.

Eliminating high energy consumption and outdated production capacity, increasing the investment in environmental protection equipment, it increases enterprises’ investment in the short term, but in the long term, it has saved production energy consumption and reduced production costs, which have great significance for improving the economic benefits of enterprises. At the same time, emphasizing the development of the ecological environment allows the entire economic development to enter a cycle of conscientious development, ultimately achieving the goal of sustainable development.


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