US textile major Cone Denim has achieved Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certification on a number of denim products manufactured at its Mexico operations.
The Cone Denim Parras and Cone Denim Yecapixtla facilities in Mexico both received the certification on selected denim products. The company’s Cone Denim Jiaxing operation in China received certification in 2015, so the group is now able to provide Oeko-Tex certified fabrics on a global basis, it says.
“The expansion of our Oeko-Tex certification to denim fabrics produced from our Mexico facilities offers additional confidence in our products and opens new opportunities to our customers worldwide,” says Steve Maggard, SVP of operations and manufacturing for Cone Denim.
“We remain committed to responsible manufacturing and promoting sustainable practices and components within our products and processes that minimise our environmental footprint while providing our customers the highest level of denim innovation and design. The Oeko-Tex certification provides our customers and the end consumer further validation of our practices and the benefits of Cone Denim’s Sustainblue line featuring the highest level of environmentally responsible denims.”
Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certification provides transparency in the textile supply chain and assures consumers that certified products have been produced without the use of illegal, regulated or other known harmful substances. The ‘Confidence in Textiles’ motto designates independent testing for harmful substances for textile products of all types which pose no risk to health since 1992.
Cone Denim has operated in Mexico since 1995 producing denims, both rigid and stretch, including S-Gene products as well as many other high-performance and sustainable denim styles. The company’s Cone Denim Jiaxing facility opened in 2007 in China.
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