Colour and specialty chemicals company Archroma recently appointed James Carnahan as the Sustainability Officer for its Textile Specialties business, and also released its list of products compliant with the new version of its Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Manufacturing Restricted Substance List (MRSL) published in December 2015.
Carnahan was previously working with BASF, where he was responsible for developing sustainable solutions to support the textile value chain. “Everyone at Archroma is committed to continuously challenge the status quo in the deep belief that we can make our industry sustainable. We have been looking for the right sustainability specialist and, when we met James Carnahan, we realized he shared our belief and had been acting upon it during his past tenure,” commented Thomas Winkler, President, Textile Specialties, Archroma.
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List of products compliant with ZDHC’s MRSL
The ZDHC Group updated its Manufacturing Restricted Substance List in December 2015, which now includes leather, apparel and footwear applications, along with a list of priority chemicals with maximum concentration limit of each substance within commercial chemical formulations. The new list of Archroma’s ZDHC MRSL-compliant products needed no change from its previous version as the listed range of colourants and chemicals already complied with the limits set by the updated version of the ZDHC MRSL. Archroma’s ZDHC MRSL-compliant products are also integrated into Archroma’s ONE WAY Calculator, the tool used by Archroma as part of its ONE WAY Sustainability Service to support customers by providing a fast, measurable and reliable approach to the selection of chemical product and process solutions.
