TEXPROCIL ties up with India’s leading certification agency, Control Union to deliver Certificate of Conformity for Indian Cotton across the value chain. Manoj Kumar Patodia, Chairman, TEXPROCIL signed the collaboration agreement with Control Union Chairman, Dr. Binay Kumar Choudhury at the Council’s registered office in Mumbai recently. The agreement was signed in the presence of K.K. Lalpuria, Executive Director and CEO of Indo Count Industries Ltd and Dr. Siddhartha Rajagopal, Executive Director, TEXPROCIL along with officials from both the organizations.
The GCC program has been launched as a Pilot project to validate the entire certification process and will be scaled up in due course.
About Control Union: With its foundation in agriculture, Control Union has focused its efforts in developing services around sustainability of the industry’s supply chains which feed into the food, feed, forestry, biomass, bioenergy, social compliance and textiles markets. With ‘boots on the ground’ in more than 70 countries, Control Union Certifications is uniquely placed to manage challenges in today’s global marketplace.
Objective: The agreement sets out the following objectives
1. Provide a platform to Indian manufacturers & exporters to ensure adherence to expected global standards of cotton tracing & certification.
2. Ensure the integrity of Indian Cotton based textile products in the global supply chain and provide credible assurance to retailers, importers, brands and other end users.
3. Use the existing framework or eco system to ensure audit, verification and certification of Indian Cotton based textile products as per recognized global standards
4. Create a simple, quick and easy to implement certification system that is scalable and acceptable to the Indian exporters at reasonable cost.
Beneficiaries: The program is expected to benefit the entire textile value chain from ginners to processors to manufacturers.
