Sustainability

Digital printing is cleaner
by design — not by choice.

The environmental advantages of digital textile printing over rotary and flat-screen printing are structural. They exist because of how the process works — not because we chose to invest in them. Below is an honest account of what the numbers look like and how we are building on that structural advantage.

Key environmental metrics — placeholders where figures are pending third-party verification

Up to 25 L

per metre saved

vs. traditional rotary screen printing

Digital printing requires no screen wash water, no dye-bath preparation, and no bulk chemical rinse. Water is used only in the post-print steam-and-wash step, at a fraction of the volume of conventional processes.

200 kW

solar installed on-site

Up to 30% of production from rooftop solar

200 kW of photovoltaic capacity installed on-site. Up to 30% of our production electricity is generated from rooftop solar, systematically reducing the carbon intensity per metre printed.

~95%

less effluent

vs. traditional screen printing

No screen preparation, no dye baths, no bulk auxiliaries. Effluent from our digital lines is primarily the wash-off from post-print fixation — a much smaller, cleaner stream than conventional print effluent.

Zero

hazardous chemistry

in the print step

All inks used in our digital print lines are GOTS-approved water-based formulations — no reactive halogens, no heavy metals, no APEO. OEKO-TEX Standard 100 tested.

No screens. No baths. No bulk effluent.

Traditional rotary and flat-screen printing demands enormous quantities of water for screen preparation — coating, exposing, and washing screens for each colour repeat. A single 8-colour job may require over 100 litres of water per screen washout cycle, plus dye bath preparation, process auxiliaries, and post-print wash-off. Each of these generates chemically loaded effluent. Digital printing eliminates the screen step entirely. There are no screens to prepare, no colour sequences to set, and no dye baths to formulate. Ink is placed directly onto fabric by the print head. The only water-intensive step is post-print steam-and-wash fixation — a shorter, cleaner process than its screen-print equivalent.

GOTS-approved inks. The full chain of custody.

Global Organic Textile Standard certification covers not just the fibre but the entire processing chain — every chemical input, every processing step, every facility. Our GOTS certification for digital printing means the inks we use are on the GOTS approved substances list, our facility has been audited by an accredited certifier, and every batch of printed fabric carries a verifiable certificate number that connects it to a certified organic fibre origin. For brands with compliance teams auditing supply chains, this means our GOTS claim can be looked up, verified, and documented — not taken on trust.

Lower thermal energy. Scalable without proportional environmental cost.

Digital printing requires no continuous steamer banks, no fixation ovens running for hours to process dye baths, and no bulk drying of chemically saturated fabric. The thermal energy profile is substantially lower per metre than conventional printing at comparable volumes. Combined with on-site renewable energy generation (figures to be published once fully verified), we are systematically reducing the carbon intensity per metre printed.

Audit-ready documentation. Not a marketing claim.

We produce compliance documentation — GOTS certificates, SEDEX audit reports, ink safety data sheets, and OEKO-TEX certificates — on request, for every buyer. We do not ask buyers to trust our word. We expect to be verified. If your brand's compliance team requires a supplier visit, a factory audit, or documentation in a specific format, contact us and we will accommodate it.

Certifications