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Version 2.0 of the software tool ‘GOTS Monitor (Water/Energy) now available
The tool was developed on behalf of GOTS by Systainable Solutions to support the evaluation of factories’ compliance with the GOTS’ “Environmental management criteria”. GOTS Chapter 2.4.10 requires that operators need to have available and provide:
1. Data on energy and water consumption per kg of textile output and
2. Targets and procedures to reduce energy and water consumption per kg of textile output
Both requirements are covered by GOTS Monitor, as it determines actual performance and specific consumption values and provides realistic, factory-specific benchmark values that can be used both as improvement targets and milestones to monitor their progress.
Additional benefits for operators: Achieved improvements are presented both in environmental and in monetary terms and it also allows to compare own performance vis-à-vis global benchmarks from facilities doing similar processing on similar machinery.
The revamped tool is free to use for GOTS certified textile companies. To download a copy, please click here. For more information about W/E Tool and upgrades in version 2.0, you can read
 the full article in GOTS News Section.
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Save the Date
GOTS Regional Seminar Turkey
Monday 18th February 2019 - Izmir
Through focused and challenging discussions, this one-day seminar shall address pressing issues relevant to the organic textiles industry. It shall equip participants with best practices and know-how relating to the biggest opportunities – and challenges – help to transform their supply chains to achieve efficiency through sustainability.
Along with speakers from the international GOTS team, it will also bring together top business leaders, brands, social and chemical compliance experts and practitioners, certification bodies and manufacturers, offering the exciting opportunity for a thorough exchange of experience and ideas.
We would like you to join us and look forward to welcoming you in Izmir on February 18th 2019.
Agenda and registration information to follow soon on the GOTS website.
Questions? Please contact Elif Yaraşık, GOTS Representative in Turkey:
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GOTS Supports CRB Conference in India
Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) shall be organizing ‘India and Sustainability Standards: International Dialogue and Conference 2018’ from 14th to 16th November 2018 in New Delhi, India. The theme of the 5th Annual Conference of CRB is ‘Collaboration a key to SDGs: Leveraging CSR & Voluntary Sustainability Standards’.
GOTS is a supporter to this event. GOTS Managing Director Mr. Rahul Bhajekar shall be attending and making a presentation. To register, please click here. For more information about the event, please follow the link.
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Webinar: Organic Textile Labeling in the U.S.
Thursday, December 6th | 11am Eastern time, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET
In this complimentary webinar, learn about U.S. regulations in organic textile labeling, different kinds of organic claims, and how the Organic Content Standard (OCS) and Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) can be used to help support labeling organic textiles. The Organic Trade Association’s Vice President of Regulatory & Technical Affairs, Gwendolyn Wyard will give the state of play in the U.S. regulations for organic labeling with a focus on textiles. Lori Wyman, the GOTS North American Representative, will explain what claims can be made for GOTS certified organic products. Textile Exchange’s Ashley Gill will cover the OCS and raw material content claims. For registration please contact Lori Wyman.
Speakers:
Gwendolyn Wyard, Organic Trade Association
Lori Wyman, Global Organic Textile Standard
Ashley Gill, Textile Exchange
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GOTS Conducting Second Round of SAI-GOTS Training for GOTS Auditors
As a part of GOTS’ commitment to constantly upgrade the auditors’ skills for improved quality assurance of GOTS program, GOTS is organizing the second round of Joint SAI-GOTS Auditor Training Program. The revised GOTS document ‘Approval Conditions for Certification Bodies’ mandates the auditors involved in assessing social compliance aspect of GOTS (Section 3) must be qualified as per SAI Basic Auditor Training Course or Equivalent.
The training in Bangalore, India on 4th-5th October 2018 was provided by Mr. Badrinath Gulur, Director-Training & Capacity Building, Social Accountability International, USA. It included practical examples from audit experience, role play, technical explanations, etc., followed by an examination. The program received wonderful feedback from the attendees (auditors/ certifiers). Three more trainings have been planned in Turkey, Germany and China and are expected to be completed by end of year 2018.
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Central Database for Scope and Transaction Certificates
The Central Database System (CDS) is a collaborative technical platform for the chain of custody of GOTS and Textile Exchange. Developed in partnership between the two organizations, the CDS will integrate scope certificates, transaction certificates, and volume reconciliation across all supply chain stakeholders and certification bodies.
The main objectives of the CDS are to:
- Increase efficiency, traceability, and transparency of certification and its related activities
- Provide standard owners and supply chain operators greater access to certification data for monitoring and evaluation and continuous improvement
- Prevent duplication of certification by creating a single source for verification and volume reconciliation
- Provide accurate, public facing data on certified companies for sourcing
- Provide opportunity for supply chain operators to share material traceability and transparency.
The CDS is being developed by Chainpoint BV with GOTS having secured financial support from the German Government.
It is expected that pilot trials will commence in January 2019 with CBs moving to the platform for all Scope Certificates in April and using it to generate Transaction Certificates progressively thereafter. The CDS is expected to be fully operational the last quarter of 2019.
The CDS will provide GOTS with vital information regarding volumes and impact data of the Standard.
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Scale Up GOTS in China - 2018 Seminar in Shanghai
Scale Up GOTS in China - 2018 Seminar was successfully held on 28th September 2018 at National Exhibition and Convention Centre during Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Autumn Edition as one of the GOTS series regional events held worldwide, organized by Felicia Shi, GOTS Representative for Greater China.
The seminar brought together over 80 guests including keynote speakers and panelists who are the important stakeholders in the area of organic textiles, including: international organizations, international brands and retailers, Chinese organic brands and retailers, traders, leading GOTS certified processors and manufacturers, chemical producers, standard setters, industry associations, media as well as consultancies, shared the business case of GOTS for brands/retailers, and the improved performance to processing and manufacturing mills through GOTS, as well as the latest requirements and market trends to GOTS and its certification, discussed the challenges and possible solutions to communication of organic textiles worldwide and in China.
The attended brands and retailers included C&A, H&M, Target, Homedepot, ETAM Group, John&Lewis, BESTSELLER, Klee Klee by ZUCZUG, Lefang, Luüna Naturals. The keynote speakers also included the leading GOTS certified fabric suppliers such as Hemp Fortex Industries and Kingdom Group.
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GOTS at International Expert Workshop on Biodiversity
The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (ifeu) invited GOTS to an interactive workshop of global experts on ‘Maintaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Worldwide through Sustainable Consumption’ from 8-11 October 2018, held on the Isle of Vilm, Germany.. GOTS Deputy Director Mr. Sumit Gupta participated and made a presentation on ‘The Role of Eco-Labels in Fostering Sustainable Consumption & Production’. For outputs and learnings, please follow the link below.
read the whole article
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Munich Fabric Start - Fall 2018
For designers and brands, the look and feel of fabrics is imperative for new inspiration, which is one of the reasons why GOTS has been supporting the Munich Fabric Start for several years as an exhibitioner. This fall season, the former organic selection was replaced by the reSOURCE area, which aims at scaling sustainable alternative fabric sourcing by providing further categories for fabric samples such as regenerated cellulosics, recycled fibres and leather alternatives. GOTS certified fabrics of course continue to be a clearly labelled guide for designers to find fabrics made of organic fibres, where each processing step including chemical inputs have been audited by an independent Third Party.
We welcome the rearrangement of the concept as it becomes easier for designers to choose between clearly labelled and categorized fabrics. Also, GOTS was proud to notice the steady growth and large variety of GOTS certified fabrics. GOTS Representative Lina Pfeifer organised a panel talk on “The Present & Future of Sustainable Garment Sourcing” with Sourcebook’s CEO Marte Hentschel, Benjamin Itter (Lebenskleidung) and André Matthes (Sustainable Textile School).
The MFS is a good address for designers and brands to get an overview of GOTS certified fabrics & GOTS approved accessories as well as to get a personalized consultation of GOTS. We will join again in January 2019. Will you?
Get in contact:
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B2B & GOTS: an observation in the German speaking area in 2018
The German speaking regions, with an increasing awareness of the need for more sustainability in textiles continue to be the biggest buyers of GOTS goods. Those buyers include retailers (who directly sell to the end consumer) as well as enterprises selling GOTS goods B2B. This year, we were happy to see that a number of B2B business improved their customer communication strategy and acted as a multiplicator for GOTS to raise the awareness of the certification obligation for B2B traders/importers who sell GOTS goods.
B2B traders selling GOTS goods with an annual turnover exceeding 5000 Euro are obliged to get certified by an independent Third Party, so that the flow of goods can be checked for a correct balance, to avoid logistical mistakes or wrong labelling.
To help to communicate in the easiest and most understandable way including all information, we have prepared the flow chart “Are you allowed to label GOTS or mention GOTS in your advertising” which is available for download in German, English and Japanese. We recommend to share this with the respecting customers, may it be via invoices or newsletters. If you need any assistance, please let us know:
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New GOTS Flow Chart now available in Japanese
With the increased recognition and value of our logo and certification programme also in Japan the latest GOTS publication “Are you allowed to label GOTS or mention GOTS in your advertising” is now available for download in Japanese on the GOTS website.
Satoko Miyoshi, GOTS Representative in Japan presented the new flow chart at several events where it was very well received.
Post event reports can be found in the News section on our website.
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GOTS SimpleShow Clip Updated – Action required
All language versions of the SimpleShow Clip have been updated with the new modernized GOTS logo and are available for download on our website or on the GOTS YouTube Channel. In case the previous GOTS SimpleShow Clip is embedded on your website from Youtube please remember to update the link as the previous versions will only be available until the end of 2018.
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Your GOTS Product on the Annual Report 2018 Cover?
As in the previous years we are looking for photographs of GOTS certified products showing the diversity of GOTS products available in today’s marketplace for use in our GOTS Annual Report 2018, to be published in Spring, 2019, as well as in our international presentations. If GOTS licensees would like to submit images, please send images in jpeg format with copyright permission by e-mail to or provide a download link. The products in the image must show a correct on-product GOTS labelling like the ones on the title of the GOTS Annual Report 2017. The deadline is January 15th, 2019. Thank you in advance for your support!
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GOTS on the Move
14-16th November 2018, New Delhi, India: India and Sustainability Standards:
International Dialogue and Conference 2018, organised by Centre for Responsible Business (CRB). GOTS Managing Director Mr. Rahul Bhajekar shall be attending and making a presentation. To fix an appointment, please contact: Rahul Bhajekar
15-18th November 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh International Fabric & Yarn Expo 2018. GOTS Representative in India & Bangladesh Mr. Sumit Gupta shall be visiting the tradeshow and having other meetings. This tradeshow is co-located with two other exhibitions, ‘3rd Bangladesh International Garment & Textile Machinery Expo 2018’ and ‘3rd Bangladesh International Dyes, Pigments and Chemicals Expo 2018’. To fix an appointment, please contact:
Sumit Gupta
27-28th November 2018, New Delhi, India: Global Textiles Conclave 2018, organised by Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI). The theme of the conference is ‘Disruptions and Innovations for Sustainable Growth’. GOTS Representative in India & Bangladesh Mr. Sumit Gupta shall be participating in the conference. To fix an appointment, please contact:
Sumit Gupta
15-17 January 2019, Berlin, DE: Neonyt brings together Greenshowroom and the Ethical Fashion Show under a new name and with a new concept. With the Neonyt Trade Fair, the Fashionsustain and #Fashiontech conferences, showcases, events and parties, Neonyt brings together a community defined by fashion, a forward-looking approach, an affinity for technology and sustainable awareness. GOTS will have a booth and Lina Pfeifer and Franziska Dormann will be at the show. For appointments, please contact: Lina Pfeifer – or Franziska Dormann –
18th – 20th January 2019, Mumbai, India: 2nd Global Textile Technology & Engineering Show 2019, organised by India ITME Society. GOTS shall be having a booth at the show and GOTS India team shall be present at the booth. This is pioneer show for textile machinery in India and is visited by senior colleagues from textile industry. To fix an appointment, please contact: Sumit Gupta
19-21 January 2019, Wallau, DE: Innatex is the only natural textiles fair in the world to feature not only fashion, but also other textile product categories such as accessories, home textiles, fabrics, toys etc. Organised under the auspices of the IVN (International Association of the Natural Textile Industry) and providing exhibitors with information about product certification, INNATEX stresses the importance not only of ecological factors in the supply chain, but also social aspects. Franziska Dormann will be at the show. For appointments, please contact:
Franziska Dormann –
24-25 January 2019, London, UK: Future Fabrics Expo Organised by the Sustainable Angle at Victoria House, London, WC1B 4DA. The Expo provides a platform for sustainable textiles and innovations for the future of fashion, supporting sustainable sourcing practices and reducing environmental impacts. GOTS will have a booth and UK representative Christopher Stopes will be at the show. For appointments, please contact: Christopher Stopes –
29- 31 January 2019, Munich, DE: Munich Fabric Start as one of the leading international textile trade show, it opens the new season twice yearly with a vast selection of collections ranging from plains to haute couture fabrics and accessories. More than 1.000 international suppliers from 40 countries, including many renowned fabric and accessories manufacturers, present some 1.800 collections in Munich. They offer the textile and fashion industry a broad, strong portfolio to source for the new season. Franziska Dormann will be at the show. For appointments, please contact:
Franziska Dormann –
10-12 February 2019, London, UK: Pure Origin, part of Pure London at Olympia, London, W14 8UX. Pure Origin brings together all aspects of fashion sourcing and manufacturing, connecting the entire fashion supply chain together. Pure is London’s largest fashion trade show. GOTS will have a booth as part of Pure Origin and UK Representative Christopher Stopes will contribute to the seminar programme during the show. For appointments, please contact:
Christopher Stopes –
12th-14th March 2019, Shanghai, China: Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics Spring Edition, National Exhibition and Convention Centre, Shanghai, China. GOTS Greater China Representative Felicia Shi will present at the GOTS booth and speak at the seminar in "All About Sustainability" Zone.
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27-28th March 2019, Mumbai, India: India Fashion Forum, organised by Images Group. It is a premium tradeshow & conference attended by the who’s who of Indian Fashion Industry. GOTS Representative in India & Bangladesh Mr. Sumit Gupta shall be participating in the event. To fix an appointment, please contact: Sumit Gupta
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