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Thanks to the advent of technology, brands and retailers as well as manufacturers are able to track their supply chains. We bring to you six solution providers for traceability that are making fashion supply chain a better place to work and also the brands and retailers that are using these technologies for best outcomes…
Fashion supply chain has always been accused of not being transparent, traceable and sustainable… However, today’s consumers have pushed fashion brands and retailers to behave more sensibly and to become accountable for the end-products that they are bringing to them. Today, the brands will certainly be asked and questioned if they are producing garments or sourcing raw material ethically and sustainably.
Thanks to the advent of technology that’s helping brands and retailers as well as manufacturers keep track of their supply chains. Here are six solution providers for traceability that are making fashion supply chain a better place to work and also the brands and retailers that are using these technologies for best outcomes…
FibreTrace’s technology tracing fibres and its origin…
An Australian traceability technology start-up, founded in 2018, FibreTrace has already made strong footprints in the fashion supply chain. The firm provides a technology that embeds luminescent pigments onto fibres at the spinning mill in order to make a textile that is fully traceable at every stage of its lifecycle.
The pigments are indestructible and built into fibre so that even if the fabric is recycled, its origins can still be traced using a handheld or inline scanner that reads the pigment. Information about the fibre is stored in a secure blockchain database in real-time at each stage of the production line. It’s not just cotton that is becoming more traceable, FibreTrace technology can be applied to responsible viscose and recycled polyester. The company is currently conducting its trial on wool, leather and bast fibres like hemp and flax.
The idea emerged when FibreTrace’s Co-founders – husband-wife duo – Danielle Statham and David once decided to track the cotton they farmed to make sure their fibres weren’t being mixed with lower quality fibres when they sent it to the spinning mills. In 2021 itself, FibreTrace received a European patent for its ‘Photon Marker System in Fibre Material’ that gives brands...