GERMANY: BASF Brightens Pigment Prints With Soft Handle
BASF has introduced a new pigment printing system that combines the soft fabric handle and colourfast qualities of conventional reactive prints with the environmental advantages of pigment printing. "Pigment printing used to be called coating," remembers Dr Guenter Renz, developer in the field of Performance Chemicals for Textiles at BASF, Ludwigshafen, "but this negative image of pigment printing is no longer justified.