It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Jolanda Kooi

A New Passport / Trade Aspects

18 August 2023

6 minutes

Conducting thorough assessments of their supply chains, adopting relevant digital technologies, and investing in transparency and traceability solutions can be a good starting point for supplier countries to embrace DPPs effectively and meet the expectations of EU importers.

Looking at Europe: DPPs Have Manufacturing Countries Fumbling in the Dark

How are DPPs going to affect the trade process? Will countries that export textiles and/or apparel to the EU see a slowdown? Or perhaps, import too. What is it that they should do? Most important, how and where do they get started? Will we see teething problems, or will those problems persist over time? There’s an urgent need for questions to be answered. texfash.com explores.

Subir Ghosh

Report

Wireframe: Passport to Future

Investments / Transparency

8 March 2023

2 minutes

tex.tracer raises €1.5 million to Accelerate Growth and Expand Globally

SaaS transparency platform tex.tracer that helps companies reach the EU net zero goal by 2050 has raised €1.5 million in seed funding which will allow it to further develop and automate the platform and grow the business internationally.

Staff Writer

Tracing Fashion / tex.tracer

4 October 2022

4 minutes

Each supply chain partner uploads product data, pictures and documents in the tex.tracer web-app. Using this encrypted time-stamp and geo-location data, tex.tracer checks and verifies whether all uploaded information is produced at the claimed time and location. Peer-to-peer reviews add in an additional check to guarantee that the uploaded details are also backed by the next supply chain partner.

Certifications Necessary at This Point, but They Are Indeed Not Perfect

The tex.tracer team is made of fashion experts on a mission. The Amsterdam-based company has been building a blockchain-powered transparency platform, allowing users to unlock relevant supply chain information. Co-Founder Jolanda Kooi talks about changing the industry from within, one step at a time.

Subir Ghosh

Interview