One sunny morning, the ColorZen team was pleasantly surprised to learn that Bloomberg Businessweek featured ColorZen’s technology in an unpaid advertisement in their widely-circulated weekly print editorial. The exceptionally clear water in the beaker represents the effluent, or wastewater coming out of the dyebath using ColorZen’s proprietary technology. Unlike conventional dyeing, the water here is clear, contains no salt or other harmful chemicals, and had very small amounts of residual dye.
The Change Fashion Challenge (CFC) focuses on creating innovation to pioneer the future of fashion and create a new sustainable ecosystem in the fashion industry. ColorZen was invited to give a 5-minute presentation on its revolutionary technology that completely re-engineers the way cotton is dyed. Watch CEO & Founder Michael Harari’s full speech here.
The trouble with turning white cotton black—or almost any color—is that the plant emits a strong negative electric charge, which repels dye just as two magnets oppose each other. The current solution is essentially to infuse the dye slurry with salt, so it sticks to the fibers. But the process sucks up a lot of […]
The Copenhagen Fashion Summit, which took place last month, may be a distant memory for some, but not for the businesses that took part in the “speed-dating” sessions and Innovations pitch competition aimed at connecting solution providers with big businesses such as H&M Group, Stella McCartney and Asos. One of these solution providers is ColorZen, who also prevailed as the […]
