
High Quality Auxiliaries for Textile Finishing
Since 1974 Textilchemie Dr. Petry GmbH has been producing auxiliaries for textile finishing. The headquarters of our innovative family business is located in southern Germany in the city of Reutlingen. We develop and manufacture textile chemicals for dyeing, finishing, coating, printing, and the pretreatment of natural and synthetic fibers. We also supply sizing agents, yarn lubricants, specialty products and pigments for garment finishing. High quality is our priority during development and production of our specialized products. Through close contact with our international customers, we are able to provide the best quality products and innovative processes. Our specialists, textile engineers and chemists, offer professional consulting services and provide prompt individual technological application solutions.
OUR PRODUCT RANGE
TECHNICAL SERVICE

Customized Solutions for Our Customers
Our experts respond promptly to your specific inquiries about textile finishing processes such as pretreating, dyeing, printing, finishing, and coating. We attach importance to individual, customer and solution-oriented advice and providing qualified answers to your inquiries. Our laboratory service can simulate practical situations on a laboratory scale, and offer to you individual, customized solutions. Through close cooperation with our customers, we are able to develop new auxiliaries which are perfectly adapted to specific requirements and the real-life conditions in the field. By optimizing finishing and dyeing processes, we concentrate on improving the quality of our produces and offer safe and reproducible textile-chemical methods for your manufacturing processes. We aim to provide sustainable solutions for saving water, time, and energy.
COMPANY
Textilchemie Dr. Petry GmbH is an internationally active chemical company. Our service and development departments are located in Reutlingen. In addition, we run subsidiaries in Switzerland, Turkey and China. We produce textile auxiliaries like softners, hydophobic agents, defoamers and detergents. Furthermore we constantly develop new application-technological procedures.
ECOLOGY

Sustainability, Environmental and Climate Protection
Promoting sustainability in textile industry is one of our main objectives. Human health, the protection of the environment and of the climate are also very high on our agenda. As a climate-neutral company, we are committed to climate protection and support carbon offset projects. Beyond that, we continuously develop modern, sustainable products and procedures. We are committed to the implementation of the most ecological processes in the textile finishing industry. In this way, we can contribute to environmental protection and support the conservation of precious natural resources.
NEWS
Here you can find interesting news on current topics in the textile-chemical field, information about our latest products and innovative procedures. Through our newsletter or via the social media channels we can regularly inform you about our recent developments and research results.
We meet you at ITMA 2023!
From 8 to 14 June 2023 the ITMA – International Textile Machinery Exhibition – the largest international trade fair for textile and apparel technology will take place in Milan. As a manufacturer of textile auxiliaries, we will once again present our latest developments and bestsellers and look forward to interesting discussions with customers, interested parties and colleagues.
World Water Day 2023: Be the Change!
Water is a precious and valuable resource. World Water Day is taking place annually on 22 March. The first World Water Day was in 1993, and nowadays it is being convened by UN-Water which belongs to the United Nations. This year’s World Water Day 2023 is about “Accelerating Change”. Our specialists at Textilchemie Dr. Petry will advise you if you would also like to make a contribution to saving water in your textile mill.
Audit 2023 for Quality and Environmental Management Successfully Passed
Textilchemie Dr. Petry is a quality and environment-oriented chemical company specialized in the production of textile auxiliaries for the finishing industry. For the 30th time in a row, we have successfully passed the annual DIN-EN-ISO audit for quality and environmental management. This year’s recertification audit took place from 13 until 17 February 2023 at the headquarters in Reutlingen, Germany, as well as in our subsidiary in Sennwald, Switzerland.
Textilchemie Dr. Petry as Climate-Neutral Company
As a responsible company, we have already decided to become climate neutral and offset our greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. Since then, we have therefore drawn up the carbon footprint of our production sites in Germany, China, Turkey and Switzerland in cooperation with ClimatePartner. In 2021, our corporate carbon footprint was 1107.79 metric tons of CO2. We compensated for this amount by investing in a climate protection project in Colombia.
Textilchemie Dr. Petry takes over textile auxiliary division of Industrie-Chemie Stein
Textilchemie Dr. Petry GmbH from Reutlingen takes over service, consulting and distribution of the textile auxiliary division of Industrie-Chemie Stein GmbH (ICS) from Hechingen on January 1, 2023. Customers of ICS can rely on the consistent quality of the textile auxiliaries they are used to and first class service from the experienced application engineers at Dr. Petry.