NIKE Opens ColorDry Technology and High-Tech Taiwanese Facility

NIKE NKE today revealed another step in the vision NIKE, Inc. President and CEO Mark Parker recently described at its Investor Meeting, as a “manufacturing revolution”. NIKE, Inc. celebrated the opening of a waterfree dyeing facility featuring high-tech equipment to eliminate the use of water and process chemicals from fabric dyeing at its Taiwanese contract manufacturer Far Eastern New Century Corp. NIKE, Inc. has named this sustainable innovation “ColorDry” to highlight the environmental benefits and unprecedented coloring achieved with the technology. Dyed fabric emerges from the ColorDry dye vessel. (Photo: Business Wire) Today's opening event follows NIKE, Inc.'s February 2012 announcement that it had taken a strategic stake in Dutch start-up, DyeCoo Textile See full press release