Material Exchange, a provider of the Material Exchange, a digital material platform, has partnered with Eurofins Softlines & Leather to streamline material compliance and create the needed transparency within fashion supply chains. Eurofins delivers comprehensive quality, safety, and sustainability solutions for textiles and footwear buyers and suppliers.
Leveraging Eurofins’ robust testing capabilities, the new partnership will provide a direct link for material suppliers to apply for testing with Eurofins’, which in turn will streamline the supplier selection process for buyers. Eurofins’ has developed the material compliance testing protocol with Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA) to support suppliers within the Material Exchange Digital Library as part of a reduced cost programme, enabling them to easily and efficiently complete tests.Material Exchange, a provider of the Material Exchange, a digital material platform, has partnered with Eurofins Softlines & Leather to streamline material compliance and create the needed transparency within fashion supply chains. Eurofins delivers comprehensive quality, safety, and sustainability solutions for textiles and footwear buyers and suppliers.#
The availability of material test reports within the Material Exchange system will provide greater transparency for brands and retailers on the regulated restricted substances for major markets providing more visibility to buyers when they are selecting materials in the Material Exchange. In addition, the added benefits of enhanced global regulatory compliance and decrease in testing cost to the trade will most certainly be realised.
Working with the support and guidance of the FDRA, who represents almost 90 per cent of major footwear brands and retailers in the US, Material Exchange and Eurofins have set forth a programme of standardised chemical tests that are essential during the material selection process for brands and retailers.
Research from the FDRA suggests, material testing is predominantly completed in the final stages of product development by brands, however, only a limited amount of testing is done at material selection. This joint partnership can greatly enhance compliance, efficiency and transparency from the start of the manufacturing lifecycle by testing materials first, and housing the results in the system for brands to access.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (GK)
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