Certificates

BLUESIGN stands for the vision and mission of responsible and sustainable textile manufacturing, making everyone's working and living conditions safer and more sustainable. Based on a holistic approach, BLUESIGN tracks each individual textile product along its production process and implements improvements at every stage. In its role as a solution provider and knowledge transfer agent, BLUESIGN acts as an independent assessor to ensure trust and transparency.

The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is the world’s leading textile processing standard for organically produced natural textiles. GOTS stands for strict environmental and social criteria, backed by independent certification throughout the entire textile supply chain, from the field to the end product.

Naturtextil IVN BEST stands for ecologically and socially responsible production at all stages of textile manufacturing. The certificate represents the highest level of socially responsible production, which excludes child labor or slavery, discrimination, and inhumane treatment, and ensures safe conditions and fair wages.

IVN Natural Leather stands for environmentally and socially responsible production at every stage of leather manufacture. IVN Natural Leather assesses every stage of the production chain, from the natural raw material – the animal hides – right through to the sale and use of the finished leather, but not the finished product itself.

The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) enables companies to capture the exact proportion of recycled material in a product and track it through the production chain, for ultimate product traceability and transparency—including the use of additives and guidelines on environmental management and corporate social responsibility.

Cradle to Cradle (C2C) is a circular approach aimed at creating a continuous and consistent circular economy system. All C2C products are chemically safe and recyclable. Waste, as generated under the previous ‘take-make-waste’ model, will no longer exist; instead, there will only be useful nutrients.

STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® is one of the best-known labels for textiles tested for harmful substances. If a textile product bears the STANDARD 100 label, you can be confident that all its components – including all threads, buttons and other accessories – have been tested for harmful substances and that the product is therefore safe for your health.

MADE IN GREEN by OEKO-TEX® is a traceable product label for all types of textiles and leather articles across all pre-production stages, including accessory materials used. The MADE IN GREEN label provides proof that an article has been tested for harmful substances and produced using sustainable processes under socially responsible working conditions. Using a unique product ID on the label, you can trace in which countries and production facilities the labeled article was manufactured.

ECO PASSPORT by OEKO-TEX® is an independent certification system for chemicals, dyes and auxiliaries used in the textile and leather industries. A multi-stage process is used to analyse whether each individual ingredient in the chemical products meets the legal requirements and does not pose a risk to human health.

The LEATHER STANDARD by OEKO-TEX® is a globally uniform testing and certification system for leather and leather accessory materials. The certification supports companies along the supply chain in implementing high human-ecological product safety.

STeP by OEKO-TEX® stands for Sustainable Textile & Leather Production and is a modular certification system for production facilities in the textile and leather industries. STeP aims to ensure the long-term implementation of environmentally friendly production processes, to improve health and safety at work, and to promote socially responsible working conditions in production facilities. The target group for STeP certification includes textile and leather manufacturers as well as brands and retail companies.

The Green Button is a government-issued label for sustainable textiles, designed to make it easy to identify clothing that is socially and environmentally sustainable. The Green Button sets out binding requirements to protect people and the environment. A total of 46 stringent social and environmental standards must be met – from wastewater limits to a ban on forced labour.

The EU Ecolabel is the recognised EU environmental label. Introduced in 1992 by an EU regulation, this voluntary label is awarded to products and services that have a lower environmental impact than comparable products.

The Fair Wear Foundation works with companies in the textile industry that are committed to improving working conditions in the garment industry. Four main activities form the Fair Wear approach: brand performance reviews, audits, factory training, and complaint hotlines.

The SA8000 certification scheme from Social Accountability International (SAI) provides organisations of all types, across all sectors and in every country, with a framework for conducting business in a fair and humane manner towards workers and for demonstrating their compliance with the highest social standards.

Organisations, plantations and companies throughout the entire value chain adhere to the FAIRTRADE TEXTILE PRODUCTION Standard in the interests of sustainability and transparency. This includes social, environmental and economic criteria designed to ensure the sustainable development of producers in developing and emerging economies.

The EU organic logo indicates certified organic food that meets strict requirements regarding production, processing, transport and storage. The logo may only be used on products that contain at least 95 per cent organic ingredients and that also comply with further strict requirements for the remaining 5 per cent.

The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) was created to improve global cotton production for workers and the environment, growing it better for the future of the industry. BCI stands for measurable and continuous improvement for the environment, farms and the economies of cotton producing regions.

Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) is an internationally recognised standard for sustainable cotton from Africa. Since 2005, CmiA has been committed to protecting the environment and improving working and living conditions for smallholder farmers and workers in ginning mills.

The Organic Content Standard 100 (OCS 100) and Organic Content Standard blended (OCS blended) applies to any non-food product containing 5-100% organic material. It verifies the presence and amount of organic material in a final product and tracks the flow of a raw material from its source to the final product.

The RCS is used as a chain-of-custody standard to ensure the traceability of recycled raw materials within a supply chain. Depending on the label grade, RCS offers two logo variants: RCS 100 (at least 95 per cent recycled content) or RCS Blended (at least 5 per cent recycled content).

The independent, voluntary global standard, RDS, recognises and rewards best practice in animal welfare. The RDS was developed and refined over a period of three years, with the involvement of animal welfare organisations, industry experts, brands and retailers.

The RWS audits farming practices, thereby providing brand owners with the assurance that the wool’s origin claims are accurate. The RWS is aimed at farmers involved in sheep’s wool production and at companies that buy and sell products intended to contain RWS-certified wool.

FSC certification for forest management confirms that the forest is managed in such a way as to preserve biodiversity, benefit the lives of local people and workers, and at the same time ensure economic viability.

PEFC Chain of Custody certification provides companies around the world with independently verified assurance that the certified forest-based material contained in a product comes from sustainably managed forests.

The V-Label is an internationally recognised and protected trademark used to identify vegetarian and vegan products. For consumers, the V-Label provides a simple and reliable guide, whilst businesses use the V-Label to ensure transparency and clarity.