Founded in 2016 by a group of industry and tech experts, Foursource is a space where buyers, apparel manufacturers and textile suppliers can connect, manage their network and business relationships, and provide transparency in the supply chain. Fabric suppliers and apparel manufacturers market their company in comprehensive profiles that include verified information about compliance, services, digital fabric catalogues and private showrooms. Sourcing teams can easily find and compare tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers with detailed company profiles and can connect with their existing partners. They can receive and compare quotes and prices, manage documents and track certificate validity in real-time.
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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."
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Established in 1964, the International Trade Centre (ITC) is the joint agency of UN and WTO supporting sustainable and inclusive trade in developing countries. One of ITC’s market analysis tools, Standards Map, is a module available on the Sustainability Map website. It presents comprehensive and comparable information on voluntary sustainability standards with the aim to strengthen the capacity of producers, exporters and buyers to participate in more sustainable production and trade. It references information on over 290 voluntary standards operating in more than 190 countries and certifying products and services across sectors. Through an intuitive and user-friendly search process, users can review and compare standards across common themes and criteria.
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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.
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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.
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SLCP is a ground-breaking multi-stakeholder initiative striving to improve labor conditions for workers in global supply chains, starting with the apparel & footwear sector. SLCP is implementing a Converged Assessment Framework (CAF) – the first of its kind – to reduce the need for duplicative, wasteful and ineffective social audits. SLCP has over 220 signatories that include leading brands, manufacturers, standard holders, audit firms, governments and civil society. Signatories have committed to redirecting resources saved through the implementation of the CAF to activity that will create meaningful improvements to workers’ lives.
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A global foundation for the benefit of all stakeholders in the leather industry, the focus of the Sustainable Leather Foundation is to provide a certification programme; education; best practice; cohesive collaboration and global action. At the heart of the foundation is a transparent dashboard app and integrated web platform, linked to a certification standard that assesses new, or records existing, conformance and performance of leather manufacturers and associated facilities, against the three pillars of sustainability; Environmental, Social and Governance. By providing a consumer accessible window to sustainability performance, alongside fully transparent, detailed, data for the value chain partners, the Foundation can independently foster better collaboration, better solutions and better outcomes for people, planet and profit.
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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.
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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.
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, (UNECE), is one of five UN regional organizations dedicated to promoting economic integration. As part of that mission, UNECE has brought together experts, academics and industry stakeholders to develop a series of policy recommendations, information exchange standards and guidelines for ensuring sustainable and ethical good practice in the garment and footwear sector. These tools, when implemented, use the latest blockchain technology to provide companies with the information they need to track and trace their products through the entire value chain. While carefully drafted policy recommendations support global commitments towards building a circular economy that works for people and will protect the environment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) is an independent, objective, non‐profit team of global social compliance experts dedicated to promoting safe, lawful, humane, and ethical manufacturing around the world through certification and education. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, WRAP has branch offices in Hong Kong and Bangladesh as well as representatives for all regions of the world. WRAP-certified facilities demonstrate compliance with its 12 Principles as well as U.S. CTPAT Guidelines for Foreign Manufacturers. Certificates apply to individual facilities allowing auditors to get an on-the-ground perspective of day-to-day operations and ensure real compliance. All certifications require periodic renewal and factories are subject to unannounced follow‐up visits during their certification periods. Compliance is examined through audits conducted by third‐party monitoring firms accredited by WRAP. Auditors must meet rigorous accreditation requirements and undergo a training course conducted by a member of the WRAP team. They must also attend refresher trainings every two years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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