New York City, NY, January 5, 2012 /… Newswire/ – AirDye Solutions is pleased to announce that it will be presenting at the 14th Annual ICR XChange Conference to be held in Miami, Florida at the Fontainebleau Hotel.

The ICR XChange is one of the leading consumer-oriented investment conferences. Over the course of three days, more than 150 companies will present to over 1,500 attendees, including buy- and sell-side analysts, the private equity community, the media, select investment banks, law firms and consultants. This event each year sets the tone for industry developments in the coming twelve months.

The Company’s presentation will begin at 3:05 p.m. ET on Tuesday, January 10, 2012.  Chief Executive Officer Larry Levy will be speaking at the conference in the Glimmer Ballroom 1 & 2. Mr. Levy will be available for private meetings throughout the day.

More information on the conference is available at the website: http://www.icrxchange.com.

About ICR

ICR is a leading financial communications firm specializing in investor relations and corporate communications. Established in 1998, ICR represents more than 300 companies and has significant industry expertise and relationships in the resources sector.  ICR maintains offices in Norwalk, CT, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Beijing and is one of the industry’s fastest growing consultancies.  For more information: http://www.icrinc.com.

About AirDye Solutions

AirDye Solutions is passionate about creating new printing and dyeing technologies that help sustain the planet while offering unsurpassed quality, value, and accessibility. AirDye® technology manages the application of color to textiles without the use of water. It is the most efficient, sustainable alternative to traditional printing and dyeing processes. AirDye also reduces process time to weeks rather than months so orders are delivered more quickly and adjustments are implemented with real-time speed.  For more information: http://www.airdyesolutions.com.

For More Information:
Paul Raybin
Chief Sustainability and Marketing Officer
(909) 758-1590
p.raybin@colorep.com

Creating a sustainable and vibrant green brand for the textile industry is something our team of 185 people work hard to achieve every day. For eight years, AirDye Solutions has been at the forefront of remaking the textile industry with our innovative and sustainable AirDye® technology.

Having revolutionary eco-friendly technology alone isn’t always enough to attract business, so we set out to build a green brand that had verifiable life cycle analysis to substantiate the technology’s environmental benefits plus clear “traditional” benefits for the textile industry: quality products, fast time-to-market, reduced inventory risk and unique design capabilities. The process and our philosophy is explained in Claudia Girrbach’s GreenBiz.com article 5 Lessons from AirDye on Building a Strong Green Brand.

Last week, Bloomberg.com profiled AirDye Solutions and our AirDye® technology in an article AirDye Aims to Save Oceans of Water by Retooling Textile Mills. It’s nice to see the business world’s interest in the textiles industry’s water-risks continue to grow. We hope you’ll take a moment to read the article and spread the word!

Wednesday night at the World Technology Summit gala held at the United Nations in New York City, AirDye Solutions was named the corporate winner for the prestigious 2011 World Technology Award for Environment.

We were recognized for AirDye® technology. AirDye addresses one of the world’s most pressing problems: the over-use and pollution of trillions of gallons of fresh water. AirDye Solutions innovative technology uses no water at the point of coloration, eliminates the need for toxic dye chemicals, and is revolutionizing the textile industry.

The World Technology Awards have been presented by the World Technology Network (WTN) since 2000, as a way to honor those in 20 different categories of science and technology and related fields doing “the innovative work of the greatest likely long-term significance.” Nominees for the 2011 World Technology Awards were selected by the WTN Fellows (winners and finalists from previous annual Award cycles in the individual Award categories) through an intensive, global process lasting many months.

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Things are heating up for AirDye Solutions, and there are several major projects underway and we were just told that we’re a finalist for an environmental award. And this week, a few members of the AirDye team are hitting the road, stopping in London, Brussels, Istanbul, and Paris.

Bonnie Julian, senior vice president of textiles, Phillip Hess, studio director, and Paul Raybin, chief sustainability and marketing officer, will be meeting with major brands and retailers in London to see how our eco-friendly dye technology can help them meet their design and sustainability goals.

Then it’s off to Brussels, where AirDye will be on site for MoOd (Meet only Original Designs)—formerly known as Decosit Brussels—for an international upholstery, window, and wall covering producers trade show. If you’re at MoOD keep your eyes out for the newly released AirDye collection.

When things wrap up in Brussels, AirDye team members will have the opportunity to meet with textile mills in Istanbul that are searching for ways to conduct business with less water.

Turkish mills are struggling to get enough freshwater to meet demand, and are having to move mill locations as industrialization threatens natural resources. The freshwater situation in Turkey is only a leading indicator of things to come, as countries around the globe industrialize, they will have to decide how to use their freshwater.

Water for living, or water for dyeing? Several Turkish mills are ahead of the curve in exploring partnerships with AirDye Solutions.

Paris is the last stop on our brief European tour, where AirDye’s Japanese licensees, Debs Corporation and Komatsu-Seiren, will introduce major AirDye collections at the Premier Vision show. At Premier Vision fashion designers will be taking in the latest in fabrics, weaves, and dyeing techniques.

This is a very exciting time for us, and we’re happy to share our excitement with you. As our European tour progresses, we’ll update you here.

AirDye Solutions Recognized for Visionary
Contribution to Science and Technology

Winner to be announced at United Nations headquarters

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 8, 2011  – The World Technology Network (The WTN), announced today that AirDye Solutions has been named a finalist for a prestigious World Technology Award for Environment, presented by the WTN in association with TIME, Fortune, CNN, Science/AAAS, and Technology Review. AirDye Solutions joins a roster of organizations and individuals from over 60 countries around the world deemed to be doing the most innovative and impactful work.

AirDye Solutions is a finalist in recognition for AirDye® technology. AirDye addresses one of the world’s most pressing problems: the over-use and pollution of billions of gallons of fresh water. AirDye Solutions innovative technology uses no water at the point of coloration, eliminates the need for toxic dye chemicals, and is revolutionizing the textile industry.

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This week members of the AirDye® team will embark on an Asian tour, stopping in 11 cities in three countries. Vice President of Textiles Bonnie Julian, Director of Design Philip Hess, and Chief Sustainability and Marketing Officer Paul Raybin are traveling abroad to work with new licensees and introduce AirDye® technology to global brands.

In Japan, the AirDye team will be working with new licensees Debs Corporation and Komatsu Seiren to deploy AirDye technology in Asia and supply products globally. Debs and Komatsu-Seiren are highly respected and well known suppliers of luxury fabrics to many of the world’s top brands and retailers.

In addition to meeting with our new Japanese licensees, the AirDye team is excited to meet with companies in China and the Pacific Northwest to present AirDye technology even more global brands and textile manufacturers.

We are all excited about AirDye’s expansion into Asia, but even more excited about our new opportunity to share our waterless dye technology with companies around the world.

updated March 31, 2011

In the fall, Parsons The New School for Design and AirDye Solutions partnered to create a new collaboration for graduating Fashion Design students: the opportunity to use custom fabric made using eco-friendly AirDye® technology in their thesis collections. The fit is a natural, as Parsons is a leader in incorporating sustainable design practices into their curriculum.

The project was open not only to fashion design students, but also to students in the AAS Fashion Marketing program and BFA Photography program, who would work as a team to document and create marketing campaigns about this new technology and its use by the Parsons student fashion designers in their thesis collections.

In their senior year, students in the BFA Fashion Design program create thesis collections that present their personal vision as designers and are a capstone of their four years of hard work in the program. At the start of the thesis process last August, the project kicked off with a presentation by Paul Raybin, our chief sustainability and marketing officer, who said at the kick off:

Working with Parsons students and faculty presents a unique and exciting opportunity to help new designers and fashion marketers understand how great design can also be sustainable. We look forward to seeing what these talented teams create.

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This past summer, Pat Argenti relaunched his clothing line and began to market a new collection of Argenti dresses for spring/summer 2011 based on designs created with the AirDye Solutions team. Argenti is known for understanding what America wants to wear and offering a wide variety of dresses at just the right price point.

Now that the frenetic round of apparel shows is over, for the moment, it’s time to fill those orders. And while the vast majority of fabric is dyed and decorated overseas, Argenti’s is actually using fabric that’s been processed in America at our AirDye Solutions plants in Rancho Cucamonga, California, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and at AirDye licensee TexPrint in New Jersey. Just a few weeks ago we shipped to China several containers full of dyed and decorated fabric ready to be cut and sewn. Continue reading ‘AirDye® ships fabric to china for argenti ss2011’ »

AirDye Solutions has partnered with New York’s Parsons The New School for Design for the senior student project. Each spring, senior-year fashion students prepare their thesis collection for display in April. This year, three of those students are using AirDye® technology to create sustainable fashion collections.

But, we’re doing more than just working with The School of Fashion students. Parsons created three teams, where each fashion designer also has a fashion marketing and a photography student working with them to create an entire package with visual documentation of the project and a marketing plan to communicate the collaboration to the fashion industry. Continue reading ‘AirDye and Parsons collaborate to create tomorrow’s sustainable fashions’ »