water

Water usage
Minimizing water usage is a major challenge for all textile manufacturers. For us at Everest, this is a prioritized topic. To minimize our water usage during the production of our clothes, we invest majorly in the energy and water efficient technology: Solution Dye. Today, we buy fabrics from suppliers who use Solution Dye to color both knitted and woven materials. Unlike more traditional dyeing of fabrics, which require more steps, large amounts of water, energy and carbon dioxide, the fabrics are instead dyed with Solution Dye from the very beginning – when the fibres are being created and spun, saving both water and energy. Thanks to this technology we are minimizing our environmental impact, and you get a garment which is more sustainable and more enduring; both when used and when washed.

We have used Solution dye since 2010, the result being a large part of our garments are dyed using this technology. Our goal is to continuously increase the proportion of products that are dyed with Solution Dye.

Approximate savings when using Solution Dye compared to traditional dyeing techniques:

Water: 80%
Energy: 60%
Carbon dioxide: 60%
Chemicals: 60%