Ecological Barrier Approaches Foshan Textile Industry

Comics / Luo Jiaming

Guangfo Metropolitan News Foshan Daily reporter Ji Ke reports: Adidas and other world-renowned brands and retailers are brewing jointly launched a global eco-safety certification program for textile and apparel and footwear products. This means that Foshan textile companies will open up foreign markets and will face a higher ecological threshold.

The reporter learned from the training seminar on basic knowledge of ecological textiles held yesterday that due to the fact that ecological certification is not yet enforced, no company in the city has passed this type of certification. Wu Haoliang, secretary-general of the Municipal Textile and Apparel Industry Association, believes that coercion is only a matter of time, and as soon as possible, it will take the eco-threshold and companies can seize market opportunities.

The continuous increase of trade green barriers With the implementation of the ATC agreement (textile and apparel agreement) and the development of trade liberalization, traditional trade barriers are gradually weakened, and the trade barriers represented by “green barriers” have become the largest non-tariff trade. barrier. Wang Jianping, general manager of Interchina Group's China Market Business Division, introduced that the "green" barriers to international trade are constantly being supplemented and expanded under the basic framework. For example, the Japan Fiber Industry Federation has decided to officially implement the increase in textile and apparel products for the ban on azo dyes this year. Quality control requirements, the latest version of the international ecological textile standards was also introduced in January this year, not only increased banned substances, but also modified the lead limit.

In addition, world-renowned brands and retailers such as Adidas, Nike, H&M are brewing to jointly launch a global eco-safety performance certification program for textile, apparel and footwear products. Wang Jianping revealed that this is in response to the increasing number of laws and technical standards concerning the safety of chemical use in the international trade in textiles, clothing, and footwear. It is expected that the plan will be launched soon.

The ecological threshold is not easy to raise the threshold of international trade once again, undoubtedly putting pressure on Foshan textile companies. A person in charge of a menswear manufacturing company can not help but complain to reporters that textile companies are currently faced with many problems, such as higher production costs, *** appreciation, and environmental protection requirements, and can only be weak in implementing ecological textiles.

According to Li Xiaoling, head of the Tianxiang Group's footwear and hat testing business, the general eco-certification includes product testing, factory audit, and issuance of certificates. Unlike general certification, eco-certification is whether the entire production process of an enterprise meets ecological requirements. Checking, including the purchase, production process, packaging to finished products, certification costs ranging from 30,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan.

At present, there are only a few major textile companies in Shanghai such as Esquel in preparation for ecological certification, and no company has passed the certification. Since the certification is not mandatory, most SMEs still take a wait-and-see attitude. Wu Haoliang frankly stated that eco-textiles are the trend of the industry in the future, and many buyers have included the harmful indicators on the human body as an important assessment indicator. However, it is now difficult for companies to overcome this threshold. In addition to the high cost, most Foshan companies have not prepared for eco-certification from technical standards and environmental protection. He believes that qualified companies should be prepared as soon as possible, through the ecological threshold, in the new round of ecological textile competition to seize the initiative.

Glossary Eco-textiles: At present, there is no universal definition of eco-textiles in the world. In general, the concept includes four aspects: First, the resources are renewable or reusable; the second is in the production and processing of products. There is no harm to the environment and human health. Third, the product does not harm the human body or the environment during use. Fourth, it does not cause new pollution to the environment after the product is discarded.