Industry News New
traceability solution from Better Cotton
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etter Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has today
officially launched a first-of-its- kind traceability solution for the fashion and textile sectors. The solution has been developed over three years and will provide visibility of cotton’s journey through the supply chain by logging stakeholder input on the Better Cotton Platform.
The organisation has worked closely with a network of member retailers and brands, including H&M Group, Marks & Spencer, Walmart, Target, Bestseller, Gap Inc and C&A, to ensure that fashion companies can accurately trace and disclose the origin of raw materials, and comply with emerging regulations. Companies are now increasingly expected to verify the origin of the raw materials within their products and leverage improved transparency to address the potential adverse effects of their activities on human rights and the environment.
Traceable Better Cotton will give member retailers and brands confidence that they are sourcing product from a specific country, and establish greater supply chain visibility, enabling them to incorporate insights into their own supply chain due diligence activities.
In the coming years, Better Cotton will scale the availability and sourcing granularity of traceable Better Cotton to: • serve as the foundation for an Impact Marketplace that would compensate farmers for field-level progress;
• enable country-level Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to calculate the environmental impact of Better Cotton in relation to conventional cotton;
• provide credible consumer and business- facing claims.
Traceable Better Cotton is defined as the ‘physical’ Better Cotton within a cotton-
Innotech commits to Real Living Wage I
nnotech has today been accredited as a Living Wage Employer. Their Living Wage commitment will continue to see everyone working at Innotech receive a minimum hourly wage of £10.90 in the UK, higher than the government minimum for over 23s, which currently stands at £10.42 per hour. Innotech is based in the East Midlands, a region where over 13.3% of workers earn less than they need to get by, with over 251,000 jobs paying less than the real Living Wage. Despite this, Innotech has committed to pay the real Living Wage and deliver a fair day’s pay for a hard day’s work.
The real Living Wage is the only rate calculated according to the costs of living. It provides a voluntary benchmark for employers who wish to ensure their staff
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earn a wage they can live on, not just the government minimum.
Since 2011 the Living Wage movement has delivered a pay rise to over 450,000 people and put over £2 billion extra into the pockets of low-paid workers. Derek Shedden, MD at Innotech, said “We wouldn’t be where we are today if it wasn’t for our people. And our remuneration policy has always been underpinned by the belief that fair pay always shows in our results through a loyal, motivated and positive workforce.” Katherine Chapman, Director, Living Wage Foundation, said: “We’re delighted that Innotech has joined the movement of over 12,000 responsible employers across the UK who voluntarily commit to go further than the government minimum to make sure all their staff earn enough to live on.”
containing product that has been tracked through the supply chain. It differs from Better Cotton’s long-standing Mass Balance Chain of Custody model, which tracks the volume of cotton produced and ensures this never exceeds the volume of cotton sold.
Better Cotton launched a Chain of Custody Standard earlier this year, outlining requirements that suppliers wishing to trade traceable cotton must comply with.
Using the Better Cotton Platform – operated by the software company ChainPoint – suppliers will log transactional information, culminating in visibility of where Better Cotton has originated from and how much is within a product. Traceability will span the cotton ginning stage right through to the retailer or brand.
XSYS
announces New CEO
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SYS, a leading integrated solutions provider to the flexographic, letterpress and pre-press printing markets, announces that as of today Oliver Dohn is the CEO of XSYS. Departing CEO Dagmar Schmidt has played a leading role in the company for over 25 years, holding multiple executive positions, including as the group- wide Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and since February 2022 as the CEO. During her tenure she successfully led the carve-out of the company from Flint Group.
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