Sharp, precise and professional, as well as environmental. Our clothing is printed in full colour with water-based inks that don't contain toxic chemicals harmful to the environment.<\/p>
Wastewater from dyehouse effluent is a major source of pollution in the clothing industry. Where our products are dyed, the water is recovered, cleaned and recirculated. After settling and skimming the water is filtered using reverse osmosis and distillation. This is basically sucking up water through really fine sand over and over, then boiling it.<\/p>
Salt is added back in so that the dye adheres and all the stuff left over is dried out and used for road markings. About 95% of the water is recirculated and recovered.<\/p>
At the end, the water coming out of the filters and going back round to be reused again is crystal clear, literally clean enough to drink. Once it has been cleaned it is then used at the input for the next batch. It is a closed loop system.<\/p>","urlTitle":"water-based-inks","url":"\/blog\/water-based-inks\/","editListUrl":"\/my-blogs","editUrl":"\/my-blogs\/edit\/water-based-inks\/","fullUrl":"https:\/\/lifestyle-apeksdiving.com\/blog\/water-based-inks\/","featured":false,"published":true,"showOnSitemap":true,"hidden":false,"visibility":null,"createdAt":1581945416,"updatedAt":1581946829,"publishedAt":1581946829,"lastReadAt":null,"division":{"id":56851,"name":"Apeks Lifestyle Store"},"tags":[{"id":425,"code":"environment","name":"Environment","url":"\/blog\/tagged\/environment\/"}],"metaImage":{"original":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5e4a94914cdb66.33278786.jpeg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5e4a94914cdb66.33278786.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5e4a94914cdb66.33278786.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"metaTitle":null,"metaDescription":null,"series":[],"similarReads":[{"id":2502,"title":"Zero Waste To Landfill","url":"\/blog\/zero-waste-to-landfill\/","urlTitle":"zero-waste-to-landfill","division":56851,"description":"Apeks Diving has reached a new industry-leading achievement of sending zero non-hazardous waste to landfill from its Blackburn based headquarters, including waste from the factory, warehouse and offices. 100% of general waste from the business is now turned into biofuel, which goes on to provide fue","published":true,"metaImage":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5e4a864b77e9b0.48614870.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5e4a864b77e9b0.48614870.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"hidden":0},{"id":2503,"title":"Solar Power","url":"\/blog\/apeks-takes-the-plunge-with-new-solar-installation\/","urlTitle":"apeks-takes-the-plunge-with-new-solar-installation","division":56851,"description":"At our UK regulator manufacturing facility, we are continuing with our switch to green by the installation of 400 solar panels on the roof of our purpose built factory.\u00a0","published":true,"metaImage":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5e4a901bb4b000.13720890.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5e4a901bb4b000.13720890.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"hidden":0},{"id":2703,"title":"Renewable Energy","url":"\/blog\/renewable-energy\/","urlTitle":"renewable-energy","division":56851,"description":"Throughout our supply chain, renewable energy is used. In the UK, the print factory owns a solar farm and they power manufacturing operations with renewables. The factory the makes the garments owns two wind farms and a 150kw PV array","published":true,"metaImage":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5e4a90461a8635.54891787.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5e4a90461a8635.54891787.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"hidden":0}],"labels":[]}