Uploading the certification of your factory is an important part of the process when working with a client. In tex.tracer, we make it easier to share the documents with all your clients at once.
Sometimes it can be difficult to fill in all fields correctly when having a number of different certifications from sustainability to social auditing. In this article, we explain the meaning of each field of sustainable certificates.
Explanation of the fields
Certification body: The name of the company issuing the certificate.
Certificate number: The unique identifier assigned to a specific certification
License ID: The unique identification number assigned to your organization or individual holding the certificate
Valid from: certification issuing date.
Valid to: certification expiration date.
Bluesign: Certifies that a product is made with safe chemicals, efficient use of resources, and responsible manufacturing processes, which are crucial for reducing environmental impact.
Content Claim Standard (CCS): Tracks and verifies the presence and amount of a specific material in a final product, ensuring transparency and trust in material claims.
Eco Dye Standard: Ensures that dyes used in textiles are environmentally friendly and free from harmful chemicals, which is important for reducing pollution.
EU Ecolabel: A certification that indicates a product meets high environmental standards throughout its lifecycle, promoting sustainable consumer choices.
Fairtrade: Certifies that products are made with fair labor practices, ensuring ethical treatment of workers and fair wages, essential for social sustainability.
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC): Ensures that wood and paper products come from responsibly managed forests, which is important for sustainable sourcing of materials.
Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS): Certifies organic textiles from field to finished product, ensuring ecological and social responsibility in organic production.
Global Recycled Standard (GRS): Verifies recycled content in products and ensures responsible social, environmental, and chemical practices in production, promoting circularity in textiles.
ISO 14001: An international standard for environmental management systems, helping organizations minimise their environmental impact, is crucial for sustainable operations.
ISO 50001: An international standard for energy management systems, promoting energy efficiency and reducing carbon footprint in textile manufacturing.
IVN-BEST: The highest standard for organic textiles, covering environmental and social criteria, ensuring top-tier sustainability in textile production.
OE 100 Standard: Certifies that a product contains 100% organic cotton, ensuring authenticity and traceability in organic cotton products.
OE Blended: Certifies that a product contains a blend of organic and non-organic cotton, providing transparency in material composition.
Oeko-Tex Standard 100: Certifies that textiles are free from harmful substances, ensuring consumer safety and promoting healthier production practices.
Oeko Class: a group of different articles categorised according to their intended utilisation (e.g, product class I, II, III, IV)
Organic Content Standard (OCS) 100: Verifies the presence of 100% organic material in a product, ensuring transparency and integrity in organic labeling.
Organic Content Standard (OCS) Blended: Certifies products containing a blend of organic and non-organic materials, ensuring accurate claims in mixed-material products.
Recycled Claim Standard (RCS) 100: Verifies that a product contains 100% recycled content, promoting sustainability through recycling in the textile industry.
Recycled Claim Standard (RCS) Blended: Certifies that a product contains a blend of recycled and non-recycled materials, ensuring accurate and transparent recycling claims.
Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC): A certification that combines organic farming with strong social and animal welfare criteria, aiming to improve soil health and carbon sequestration.
Responsible Alpaca Standard (RAS): Ensures that alpaca wool is produced with high animal welfare standards, promoting ethical sourcing in the textile industry.
Responsible Down Standard (RDS): Certifies that down and feathers come from animals treated ethically, without live-plucking or force-feeding, ensuring humane treatment.
Responsible Hemp Standard (RHS): A certification for responsibly grown and processed hemp, ensuring sustainability and ethical practices in hemp textiles.
Responsible Mohair Standard (RMS): Ensures that mohair is sourced from farms with high animal welfare standards, promoting ethical treatment of goats in mohair production.
Responsible Plastic Management (RPM): Promotes responsible use and disposal of plastic materials, encouraging sustainable plastic management in the textile supply chain.
Responsible Wool Standard (RWS): Certifies that wool is sourced from farms with high animal welfare and land management practices, ensuring ethical and sustainable wool production.
SFA Cashmere Standard: A certification that ensures cashmere is produced sustainably with a focus on animal welfare and environmental stewardship.
Sustainable Fiber Program (SFP): Promotes the use of sustainable fibers in textiles, supporting eco-friendly and socially responsible fiber sourcing.
Sustainable Regenerated Cellulosic Content Standard (SRCCS): Ensures that regenerated cellulosic fibers, like viscose, are produced sustainably, promoting responsible fiber innovation.
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