BW Converting and Archroma plan local laboratory capability backed by industrial-scale trials at Monforts in Germany.
Specialists from the three companies at the Monforts ATC in Germany.
© BW Converting12th October 2026
Innovation in Textiles
| Lahore, Pakistan
Sustainable, Clothing/Footwear
Pakistan’s textile mills are to gain local access to precision spray finishing trials under a new initiative involving BW Converting, Archroma and Monforts.
BW Converting plans to install a laboratory-scale spray-finishing unit at Archroma’s Pakistan laboratory, enabling mills to test finishing chemistries and applications on their own fabrics without initially having to carry out trials overseas.
The three companies will outline the initiative at IGATEX Pakistan, taking place at the Expo Centre Lahore this week (October 15-18), where they will exhibit jointly through their local representative Al-Ameen Trading Corporation.
The planned facility will use BW Converting’s non-contact spray application technology alongside Archroma’s textile chemistry and application expertise. Applications showing potential at laboratory level could subsequently move to larger-scale trials at the Monforts Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Direct route
The arrangement is intended to provide a more direct route from initial formulation and application development through to testing under industrial finishing conditions.
BW Converting’s Baldwin TexCoat G4 technology applies controlled quantities of finishing chemistry to one or both sides of a fabric using non-contact precision spraying. Compared with conventional processes involving higher wet pick-up, applying only the required amount of chemistry can reduce the volume of water subsequently needing to be evaporated during drying.
This can lower water, chemical and energy consumption while potentially allowing higher production speeds, depending on the fabric and finishing application.
Pakistan is regarded as a particularly relevant market for the technology because of the scale of its textile processing industry and increasing pressure on mills to reduce energy, water and chemical consumption while maintaining productivity.
“Pakistan has become an important market for precision spray finishing because mills are looking very closely at productivity, energy consumption, chemical use and process control,” said Yiannis Vasilonikolos, global sales leader for textiles at BW Converting.
The proposed Archroma installation will allow the chemicals specialist to carry out development work with its own formulations while also giving textile manufacturers an opportunity to test fabrics and specific finishing requirements using precision spraying.
Jan Mohammad Khan, segment head finishing at Archroma Pakistan, said bringing the technology into the country should enable mills to assess potential applications under conditions more closely related to their own manufacturing requirements.
Monforts ATC
The involvement of Monforts adds the next stage in the development process. Its ATC houses pilot-scale dyeing, finishing and coating equipment on which customers can conduct trials under conditions designed to replicate commercial production.
This will allow applications developed in Pakistan to be assessed in combination with fabric handling, drying and thermal treatment before mills consider investment in full production equipment.
“Moving a promising application from the laboratory to production means understanding how it performs across the finishing process,” said Manfred Havenith, area sales manager at Monforts.
Al-Ameen Trading Corporation represents all three companies in Pakistan and will host them on stand F-2-09 in Hall 2 at IGATEX Pakistan 2026.