Huntsman Textile Effects has introduced an innovative fluorescent whitening agent to help textile mills achieve very high and brilliant white shadeson cellulosic fibers. The new UVITEX® BHA LIQ. high-affinity stilbene whitener has unequalled acid stability and acid fastness, making it a unique complement to most finishing treatments, with no risk of greening-off and superior protection againstphenolic yellowing during storage and shipment. UVITEX® BHA LIQ. has been designed to help mills meet brands’ high white standardsfor towels, knitted apparel, T-shirts, underwear and other articles made from cellulosic fabrics.

Huntsman Textile Effects’ new UVITEX® BHA LIQ. overcomes allbrightening challenges with highacid stability of between pH 4 and pH 5 and acid fastness down to pH 4. It offers aneutral to slightly bluish white shade with excellent wash fastness and build-up.Greening-off is eliminated and the risk of phenolic yellowing is minimized.

UVITEX® BHA LIQ. sets a new benchmark for high-affinity disulfonated stilbenederivates, of which the Huntsman Textile Effects’ UVITEX® range is the global market leader. UVITEX® is the leading textile whitener for all substrates and application processes, offering a complete range of neutral and shaded whiteners and the ability to create local shaded versions and tailor-made white. Like the other UVITEX® products, UVITEX® BHA LIQ. is included on the Huntsman Positive List for ZDHC and can thus be used to produce textiles for companies that have signed the Towards Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Joint Roadmap. This new whitening agent can be applied by exhaust processes and is suitable fordiscontinuous bleaching systems with hydrogen peroxide and for reductive bleaching.It offers very high bath exhaustion and low wastewater pollution. Easy to handle, so itcan be used with automatic dispensing equipment.