Background
In 1992, leading textile companies worldwide founded the eco-tex Consortium.
The objectives of the Consortium were first to analyze and retrace all
the stages of textile and garment production from the final garment
to the fibre and secondly to offer assistance to all the members of
the consortium.
In 1996, the eco-tex Institute for Applied Ecology was founded as an
independent and market oriented consulting organisation. All the previous
activities and experience of the consortium were taken over by the eco-tex
Institute. We have an efficient working team and expertise in specialised
areas of technical engineering, management consulting and communication.
We extend to clients our empirical approach and experience pertaining
to observation, control and improvement of the quality criteria and
harmless substances as well as environmental friendliness, safety and
social responsibility in production. We solve most of the complex functions
for our customers in the context of strategic early-stage explanation
and also root cause search.
Above all, we enjoy our position as a “global player” in
the market due to our long experience. For production-oriented organisations,
we offer a “weak point analysis” evaluation system worldwide
for all the stages of production and production processes. In process
oriented production, we have developed a system which enables us to
trace back the entire stages involved in the production and supply chain,
so that the customer defined criteria and requirements can be fulfilled.
In 2002, we carried out over 4.500 audits and our method of “weak
point correction” was installed in many production organisations.
2003 was the starting point for our Social Monitoring activities covering
the Codes of Conducts of several international retailers. In the same
year, the eco-tex Consortium was re-established with the focus on global
networking for sustainable management system in all industrial production
areas. Nowadays, our partners consist of trade, industry, governmental,
non-governmental and scientific organizations.
Competence
Begin of Pipe
• Root cause study
• Evaluation of all input materials and components through management
tools during production and process within in-bound supply chain
• Compliance verification in supply chain
• Documentation of all substances in use and in process
• Development of improvement and optimization measures
Know-how Transfer for the Future
• Analysis: Systematic management methodologies
• Monitoring: An on-going process for optimization of ecological,
ethical and improved quality production
• Sustainability: An integrated management system assuring sustainability
Responsibility
• Innovative: Development of market appropriate methods
and solutions
• International: Partners, projects and worldwide contact offices
• Flexibility: Customer oriented modular solutions
Commitment
• Assisting and supporting textile and garment producing companies
in implementing practical and feasible measures to comply with market
and customer requirements on quality, environment and Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR). The implementation of measures for the fulfilment
of the requirements are based on sustainable management, leading the
producing companies to sustainable development.
• Assisting buying and retail organizations worldwide (e.g.,
Migros, KarstadtQuelle in Europe; Aeon in Asia) in assuring their requirements
on quality, environment, health and safety as well as social responsibility
through monitoring systems.
• Launching the best management practices in textile and apparel
industry, especially Integrated Management System (CSM 2000) for implementation
and optimization of quality, environment and social standards and requirements.
• Providing concept for practical solutions of corporate social
responsibility (CSR) and economic development through business to business
processes within the textile and clothing sector.
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