OEKO-TEX® standards enable everyone to make responsible decisions and protect natural resources. 

GoBlu

GoBlu International Ltd. is empowering international fashion and textile brands and retailers to reach their sustainability goals by providing them with various brand-level, supply chain-level, and communications services. The BHive® is GoBlu’s digital chemical management platform. It allows manufacturing facilities to take smartphone photos of chemical product labels, and within seconds identify which products meet the sustainability requirements of many brands and retailers, including the OEKO-TEX® ECO PASSPORT certification. The BHive® is also synchronized with the relevant STeP-requirements. The platform enables facilities to share the data with their business partners and stakeholders. As a result, facilities’ brand and retailer clients have a full overview of chemicals used across their global supply chain. Through the digitization of chemical management, The BHive® drives transparency and the use of sustainable chemistry in the textile industry."

Open Apparel Registry

The Open Apparel Registry opens up supply chain data for the benefit of all. It transforms messy, inconsistent data into structured datasets, made freely available to all stakeholders under an open data license. Access to cleaner, structured and open data enables interoperability across systems and more efficient and effective collaboration at the facility level. OEKO-TEX proudly contributes its STEP-certified facilities to the OAR in an effort to support and drive accessibility, transparency and collaboration in apparel supply chains.

retraced

Retraced is a social and environmental compliance management platform for fashion and textile supply chains to collect, evaluate, and manage supply chain compliance data. The platform connects all parties involved in garment manufacturing and for digitalized, standardized and efficient communication processes. This gives companies a clear overview of their supply chains, enabling them to trace raw materials back to their origin, anticipate risks and thereby optimize their supply chains in terms of social and environmental aspects. This transparency can then be shared internally within the company and externally with customs, customers or business partners.

Textile Exchange

Textile Exchange is a global non-profit driving a positive impact on climate change across the fashion and textile industry. It guides a growing community of brands, manufacturers, and farmers towards more purposeful production from the very start of the supply chain.  Its goal is to help the industry to achieve a 45% reduction in the emissions that come from producing fibers and raw materials by 2030. To get there, it is keeping its focus holistic and interconnected, accelerating the adoption of practices that improve the state of our water, soil health, and biodiversity too.  For real change to happen, everyone needs a clear path to a positive impact. That’s why Textile Exchange believes that approachable, step-by-step instruction paired with collective action can change the system to make preferred materials and fibers an accessible default, mobilizing leaders through attainable strategies, proven solutions and a driven community.  At Textile Exchange, materials matter.

Texbase

Texbase creates software solutions for the textile industry and consumer product supply chains focused on Materials, Testing, Color and Compliance. Texbase are specialists in helping our industry to document and communicate the properties of materials and finished products as it relates to performance and sustainability. We have partnered with Texbase in the OEKO-TEX® CertLink Project to create the CertLink platform and the Global Library. Both are services to our customers and institutes that provides a link between OEKO-TEX® certificates and the materials and finished products that our customers produce.

ZDHC

The ZDHC Foundation oversees implementation of the Roadmap to Zero Programme and is a global multi-stakeholder initiative of more than 160 contributors within the fashion and footwear industry. The vision is widespread implementation of sustainable chemistry, driving innovations and best practices to protect consumers, workers and the environment. ZDHC uses collaborative engagement to drive a holistic, industry focussed and practical approach to sustainable chemical management. ZDHC guidelines, platforms and solutions drive large-scale industry wide implementation that advances the industry as a whole towards the zero discharge of hazardous chemicals.

Green Button

The Green Button is a government-run certification label for sustainably produced textiles. It sets demanding requirements to protect people and the environment in global production processes of textiles. What makes the Green Button special: In its requirements for corporate due diligence processes, the Green Button evaluates whether the entire company assumes responsibility for compliance with human rights and environmental standards in its textile supply chains. In addition, the Green Button sets requirements for sustainable production processes that are verified through recognized and credible certification labels, including some from OEKO-TEX®. It is this combination of requirements, which makes the Green Button unique, addressing the company’s due diligence as well as its production processes. The German government sets the requirements for the Green Button and independent certification bodies assess compliance with these requirements.

Cotance

COTANCE, Confederation of National Association of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community, was established in 1969. It is the representative body of the European Leather Industry and a member of the International Council of Tanners (ICT). Located in Brussels, COTANCE is a non-for-profit umbrella organisation gathering the network of European leather producers’ associations, connecting with over 95% of all European tanneries. Its policies, standards and initiatives aim the sustainable development of the tanning industry, the defence and promotion of leather and the furthering of research and innovation as well as education and training. Europe’s leather production of almost € 8 billion generates a turnover of around € 125 billion for its customers, creating business and employment in over 40.000 companies for an estimated 2 million people.

Global Fashion Agenda

Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) is a non-profit organisation that fosters industry collaboration on sustainability to accelerate impact. GFA provides in-depth analysis and reports based on the latest industry data. It specialises in communicating complex sustainability content and is responsible for leading industry publications such as The GFA Monitor, Fashion CEO Agenda, Fashion on Climate, Scaling Circularity and Pulse of the Fashion Industry. GFA’s Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen is a multi-stakeholder event renowned as a nexus for agenda-setting discussions on the most critical environmental, ethical and social issues. Its Innovations Forum is a key platform to connect fashion leaders with some of the most promising solution providers. Through policy engagement, GFA proactively advocates for policy change and supportive measures that reinforce sustainability targets and incentivize necessary change.

Partnership for Sustainable Textiles

The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles is a multi-stakeholder initiative with around 140 members from companies, associations, trade unions, civil society, standards organisations and the German government. As the first point of contact for all companies that want to live up to their ecological and human rights responsibilities throughout the supply chain, it offers a broad network and support. At the center of this is the due diligence approach described in the National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights and concretised by the OECD for the textile sector. 

Cradle to Cradle

The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is powering the shift to a circular economy, by setting the global standard, Cradle to Cradle Certified®, for materials, products and systems that positively impact people and the planet.

EURATEX

As the voice of the European textile and clothing industry, EURATEX works to achieve a favourable environment within the European Union for design, development, manufacture and marketing of textile and clothing products. The EU textile and clothing industry, with around 200,000 companies employing 1.3 million workers, is an essential pillar of the local economy across many EU regions. With €64 billion of exports, the industry is a global player successfully commercializing high added value products on growing markets around the world. Working together with EU institutions and other European and international stakeholders, EURATEX focuses on clear priorities: an ambitious industrial policy, innovation and skills development, free and fair trade, and sustainable supply chains.

The European Outdoor Group (EOG) is the voice of the European outdoor sector with a vision to do global, profitable business in a way that gives back more than we take — from nature and from people. The EOG undertake a wide range of activities, including market data services, corporate social responsibility and sustainability initiatives, organising and supporting industry events and trade fairs, and representing our sector and its interests to the European Commission, other formal institutions, NGOs, and other stakeholders.

TextileGenesis

Founded in 2018, TextileGenesis, a Lectra company, provides a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables fashion brands and sustainable textile manufacturers to ensure a reliable, secure and fully digital traceability of their textiles, from the fiber to the consumer, and thereby guarantee their authenticity and origins. The platform provides traceability for textiles, leather and footwear, employing fiber forwards traceability for sustainable and certified materials and Supply Chain discovery approach to traceability for conventional materials. Its innovative traceability mechanism, which addresses both ends of the textile value chain, as well as its network of partners for material certification, and its technology platform guarantee the exchange and tracking of reliable and secure data throughout a material's life cycle. TextileGenesis platform also identifies and flags supply chain compliance/legal risks across the value chain from tier 1-4 for brands.

IFOAM-ORGANICS INTERNATIONAL

IFOAM-Organics International is the umbrella organisation for the organic movement worldwide, representing more than 600 member organisations in more than 100 countries.