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Dr. Clemens Grund
Vice President, Technology
Sustainability is a key focus for DyStar in R&D
and Ecology. Our research leads us to new products
with outstanding application technological properties,
highest synthesis yields, reduced amounts of
impurities and optimized production conditions.
Based on such new products, our customers will
be able to save chemicals, energy, water and other
resources, which results in a significant reduction
of their environmental impact.”
Department tasked with inventing new dyestuffs and processes for
synthesis and application to support our leading position in the textile
dyes and auxiliaries industry. We have a rich heritage of more than
150 years of R&D including intellectual property inheritance from BASF,
Hoechst, Bayer, Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Zeneca. The R&D results, new
products and technologies designed and developed in R&D and
multidisciplinary teams are protected in more than 1,700 patents and
patent applications.
Through focused R&D efforts including strategic collaborations with
customers, industry partners, and institutes and universities, we continue
to meet, and successfully anticipate, customers’ needs. We offer innovative
solutions for contemporary, complex issues in the textile value chain.
These primarily refer to high performance textile dyes and auxiliaries of
improved ecological profile and consistently high quality that enable
optimized coloration technologies of superior technical, environmental
and economic performance. One of the key innovation goals for DyStar’s R&D
is to help customers to achieve new milestones in terms of product
and process excellence, including shorter or more economical dyeing
procedures, reduced water and energy consumption and lower waste
water and polluting effects.
We have also globalized our R&D footprint to gain market proximity
and insight, and to be closer to our customers in Asia-Pacific, and
have opened a new R&D centre in Singapore. Here scientists graduated
from top universities around the world are working together with
internal and external experts to invent new sustainable solutions for
all the major textile fibers (conventional and new developed fibers),
as well as to develop customized solutions to solve existing technical
problems of major customers.
DyStar and GHS
Besides REACH, the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of
Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemicals (GHS) is one of
the most important issues for the chemicals industry. GHS is an
internationally accepted system and is designed to replace different
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classification and labelling systems in different countries by one global
system. GHS sets rules for classification and labelling of chemicals so
that hazardous chemicals will be labelled according to the same rules
using the same pictograms, hazard phrases and precautionary phrases
world-wide. Safety Data Sheets will have to be harmonized as well.
Almost all major countries have already implemented the GHS. Our experts
have successfully implemented GHS in those countries where already
required and will be able to supply in time GHS labels and Material Safety Data
Sheets (MSDS) for those countries which are still in the transition phase.
For more information on DyStar’s REACH compliance, visit www.DyStar.com
For more information on the REACH regulation, visit www.echa.europa.eu
Product safety
The marketing of textile dyes and auxiliaries is influenced not only by
our customers’ requirements, but also by the need to conform to the
requirements of national and international chemicals legislation and
environmental regulations. DyStar has implemented a comprehensive
control system to ensure that only the products that meet the applicable
safety and environmental regulations are supplied to the market. The
system monitors products before as well as during marketing for safety
and environmental compliance. This control system has been in place for
many years and is now an integral part of our approach to the market and
carries the brand name econfidence® which is a worldwide registered
trademark of DyStar.
Our product safety system enables the effective marketability of our
products by taking into account hazard warning labels, shipping classification,
generation of material safety data sheets, codification of products and
regulatory requirements. Our technical specialists work closely with
customers on the use of our products and advise them on compliance
with safety and environmental regulations relating to these products.
A robust product safety and ecology policy framework and system
ensure uninterrupted marketability of our products and protect
DyStar’s environmental reputation.