The students will also benefit from access to a range of functional products with application and performance characteristics critical to the industry, allowing them to gain hands-on training and learning and help develop innovative solutions for new industry entrants.
The DKTE’s faculty has already expressed special interest in Archroma’s Nuva® N water and oil repellent solutions, Pekoflam® non-halogenated flame retardant, Sanitized® antimicrobials, Appretan® solutions for textile strength and flexibility or Hydroperm® hydrophilisizing agent.
“At Archroma, we continuously challenge the status quo in the deep belief that we can make our industry sustainable,” said Anjani Prasad, Archroma’s head of Sales, Textile Specialties, India. “With this partnership, we want to take a new approach to knowledge sharing and help to prepare a new generation of textile experts to the opportunities and challenges of our industry.”
“Thanks to our collaboration with Archroma, our institute and center of excellence for nonwovens will be an interface between the industry and consumers in order to improve article effectiveness,” Kadole said.
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Source: Archroma
Posted February 22, 2016
REINACH, Switzerland – Archroma, a global leader in color and specialty chemicals, and DKTE Society’s Textile & Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji for Technical Textiles (DKTE), based in Kolhapur, India, announced that they have entered into a five-year partnership.
The partnership is aimed at sharing Archroma’s globally recognized expertise in the area of technical textiles and nonwovens with the institute’s faculty and students.
The partnership was officially announced at a ceremony held on February 11 in Mumbai in the presence of Archroma CEO Alexander Wessels and DKTE’s Principal Prof. (Dr.) P.V. Kadole.
Under terms of the partnership Archroma will provide training sessions as well as technical support and guidance to students of the Institute. In particular, DKTE’s students will have access to some of Archroma’s technical laboratories in India and Switzerland for projects, experiments and trials.
Archroma, DKTE enter into education partnership
Participating in the ceremony: (L-R) Alexander Wessels, Archroma CEO; Anjani Prasad, Archroma’s head of Sales, Textile Specialties, India; Prof. A.I. Dr. Wasif, professor in Textile Chemistry, former principal of DKTE; and Prof. C.A. Patil, Dean of DKTE. Photo courtesy of Archroma
DKTE new Center of Excellence for Nonwovens, Ichalkaranji, Kolhapur, India. Photo courtesy of DKTE
DKTE College, Ichalkaranji, Kolhapur, India. Photo courtesy of DKTE
Participating in the ceremony: (L-R) Alexander Wessels, Archroma CEO; Anjani Prasad, Archroma’s head of Sales, Textile Specialties, India; Prof. A.I. Dr. Wasif, professor in Textile Chemistry, former principal of DKTE; and Prof. C.A. Patil, Dean of DKTE. Photo courtesy of Archroma