For Chemitex, Social responsibility is more than just the balance between growing and caring for our people, society and environment. It is our long-term economic strategy.
Each year since Chemitex was founded in 1970, we have redistributed a significant part of our profits to various valuable initiatives in the social, medical, cultural and educational sectors.
Chemitex cares for Human Rights. In order to guarantee healthy, safe and dignified working conditions for the people who manufacture our yarns and textiles, we regularly carry out social audits in all of our suppliers’ plants.
Our Ethical Charter is binding for us as well as for all of our suppliers and guides us in our daily purchasing decisions.
We see our suppliers as strategic partners and strive to maintain long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with all of them.
We do everything in our power to make sure their businesses and workforces advance alongside ours.
Our social responsibility reaches further than our environment.
As we grow, so does our responsibility. It is our guarantee that Chemitex’s impact becomes more positive every day. By reducing our ecological footprint, by constantly enhancing the conditions of our workforce and by donating a part of our profits to positive initiatives.
We started as a family business more than 50 years ago. Now, as one of the world’s most successful sourcing and distribution networks in the textile industry, we still work in the same way.
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Our organic cotton is certified by the Global Organic Textile Standar, the world’s leading textile processing standard for organic fires.
GOTS confirms our cotton is grown from non-genetically modified plants, without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers or pesticides and in compliance with its ecological and social criteria…
By adhering to these principles, Better Cotton farmers produce in a way that is measurably better for the environment and farming communities.
For each kilo of Better Cotton, farmers get 1 Better Cotton Claim Unit, with moves up through the supply chain, all the way to retailers and brand members.
BCI aims to have 5 milion Better Cotton farmers producing 8,2 million metric tones of Better Cotton by 2020. That’s almost 30% of the global cotton production.
The Better Cotton Initiative exists to make global cotton production better: for the people who produce it, for the environment it grows in and for the sector’s future, by developing Better cotton as a sustainable mainstream commodity.
Chemitex, as well as all other BCI members, provides means for cotton farmers to produce cotton following the “Better Cotton Production Principies and Criteria” that lay out the
definition of Better Cotton by 6 principles:
By adhering to these principles, Better Cotton farmers produce in a way that is measurably better for the environment and farming communities.
For each kilo of Better Cotton, farmers get 1 Better Cotton Claim Unit, with moves up through the supply chain, all the way to retailers and brand members.
BCI aims to have 5 milion Better Cotton farmers producing 8,2 million metric tones of Better Cotton by 2020. That’s almost 30% of the global cotton production.
Flax is a specific culture and supply chain. Its use involves textiles, homeware textiles as well as high-performance technical products. The European Flax label was created to improve these products and meet consumers expectations in terms of fibre quality and traceability. It preserves, highlights and safeguards a uniquely European agriculture and industry, its regional origins and its inherent non-relocatable know-how…
Flax is a specific culture and supply chain. Its use involves textiles, homeware textiles as well as high-performance technical products. The European Flax label was created to improve these products and meet consumers expectations in terms of fibre quality and traceability. It preserves, highlights and safeguards a uniquely European agriculture and industry, its regional origins and its inherent non-relocatable know-how…
Flax is a specific culture and supply chain. Its use involves textiles, homeware textiles as well as high-performance technical products. The European Flax label was created to improve these products and meet consumers expectations in terms of fibre quality and traceability. It preserves, highlights and safeguards a uniquely European agriculture and industry, its regional origins and its inherent non-relocatable know-how…
The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) is an international voluntary full products standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of Recycled Content, chain of custody, social and environmental practices and chemical restrictions. The goal of the GRS is to increase use of recycled materials in products and to reduce the harm caused by its production.
The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) is an international voluntary full products standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of Recycled Content, chain of custody, social and environmental practices and chemical restrictions. The goal of the GRS is to increase use of recycled materials in products and to reduce the harm caused by its production.
The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) is an international voluntary full products standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of Recycled Content, chain of custody, social and environmental practices and chemical restrictions. The goal of the GRS is to increase use of recycled materials in products and to reduce the harm caused by its production.
Our organic cotton is certified by the Global Organic Textile Standar, the world’s leading textile processing standard for organic fires.
GOTS confirms our cotton is grown from non-genetically modified plants, without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers or pesticides and in compliance with its ecological and social criteria…
Our organic cotton is certified by the Global Organic Textile Standar, the world’s leading textile processing standard for organic fires.
GOTS confirms our cotton is grown from non-genetically modified plants, without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers or pesticides and in compliance with its ecological and social criteria…