Textile supply chains are layered: a fibre or fabric mill, a cut-and-sew factory, a finishing or printing unit and the trading company that quotes you. Certificates and audit statements attach to particular sites and to particular stages. This review identifies which layer the supplier occupies and which stage each of its documents actually covers.
The supplier is placed on the chain from its own material and public records: spinning, weaving or knitting, dyeing, cutting and sewing, or sourcing only. Any certificate or audit claim is then read for the entity and site it names, and for the stage it covers. Fibre and content statements are recorded as the company's own statements.
A certificate held by a mill does not extend to a garment factory that buys its fabric, and the report keeps the two apart.
We do not test fabric, grade quality or assess working conditions. Audit claims are compared with what the issuer publishes where public; they are not re-performed.
The company's own statements. The report records whether the supplier cites a supporting document and whom it names as issuer.
Where a label is claimed, the certified entity and licence reference are looked up in the scheme's listing if public. A label on a trading company that holds no entry is reported as such.
Site named, date and issuing body are compared with the factory you will use. A report for a sister factory is reported as that, not as a match.
Whether work may be placed with other units is listed as an open point. Where public sources show related units, the report lists those it finds.
Photographs, machine counts and workforce numbers are the company's own statements and are compared with any independent description.
Named brand relationships are noted. Unless the brand's own material confirms them, they remain claims.
The question is whether the trader owns production or arranges it, which settles whose certificates are relevant.
The mill's own identity and its fibre statements carry the report; sewing sites matter less.
The report maps each audit claim to a site, so you know which of the sites in the chain have documents and which have none.
Research reports what can be established from public and provided sources. It is not a guarantee about a counterparty's future conduct and not legal advice.
Only to the extent the document and the issuer's listing name the entities and sites. Otherwise the point is unavailable.
We check what the scheme listing shows for the named entity. We do not test fibre.
Only if reviewed sources show it. Otherwise it remains an open point.
No obligation. We read your request and reply with a straight answer.
Tell us what you need to find out and by when. We confirm scope before any work starts.
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