Safety

characterises our functional textiles, thus explaining the confidence they
inspire. Day for day our textile products provide wearers of occupational
and safety garments with reliable protection from the elements.
Protection of elementary natural resources such as air, water and the soil
is an important aspect of our mission, both at our plant in Freilassing and
wherever our textiles and fabrics find use in final products.
Reconciling the protective effects of our products with sustainability is a
challenge that requires commitment along the entire textile chain. We work
on this day for day in collaboration with our partners, consistently pursuing
this path step by step.

Our goal

is to keep pollutant loads on man and the environment as low as possible.
In line with our Topaz ELEMENTS concept, we are thus expanding use of
alternative components specifically geared to the requirements of concrete applications.
We are engaged in the development of environmentally sound water-based
formulations as one way of relinquishing harmful substances both in our
manufacturing processes and in final products.
Our use of alternatives that go easy on the environment is based on close
collaboration with leading suppliers of textile auxiliaries as well as research
and test institutes, and naturally also involves our highly-qualified application
engineering team.

Production systems

of the most advanced type allow us to produce functional textiles in an
energy-efficient and resource-saving way and also enable us to implement
new finishing and coating technologies.
Specifically conceived for use with water-based systems and deployed in
combination with innovative formulations, our state-of-the-art production
resources are enabling us to reduce the steps in our manufacturing work.
Closely-knit official testing, voluntary environmentally-geared activities and
certification to EN ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 reflect our commitment to
environmental issues, spurring us in our on-going effort to obtain further
improvements in the interests of our employees and neighbouring businesses
and customers.

Topaz ELEMENTS

are stepping stones on the path to textile
materials with the lowest-possible environ-
mental impact over their entire life cycle. In
our efforts we place particular significance on
adherence to all appropriate legislation and
directives and are already outperforming the
respective limit values. All our functional
products for the apparel sector meet STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX®requirements governing
the testing of textiles for harmful substances.
Additional monitoring measurements by inde-
pendent test institutes provide us orientation,
spurring us to forward-looking action in the
creation of textile solutions.

Your ideas

on how we can improve the performance of our
functional textiles while lowering impacts on man
and the environment are very welcome. We invite
you to get to know our Topaz ELEMENTS concept
and share your ideas so we can work on them
together.

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