Sustainability

People

Worker Rights and Occupational Health and Safety in our supply chain are the areas that we pay utmost attention to. Our Code of Conduct (the Code), which includes these topics and more, is binding for all units in our chain.

We conduct audits to verify units' compliance with our Code. According to the audit reports, if a unit has minor nonconformities, we implement corrective action plans in the unit. On the other hand, units with major non-conformities cannot take part in our chain.

Environment

We expect our production units to act in accordance with the local environmental laws of the country they are located in and the environmental principles in our Code. We conduct audits to confirm the compliance of the units with our Code and the law.

GOAL 2025: 70% of cotton used in our production in mass will have equivalent Better Cotton Calculation Units from Better Cotton Initiative

GOAL 2025: 30% of cotton used in our productions in mass will come from recycled or organic sources.

For further info:   

https://bettercotton.org/

https://textileexchange.org/standards/organic-content-standard/

https://textileexchange.org/standards/recycled-claim-standard-global-recycled-standard/

 

A Case Study: Recycled Pocket Bag Fabric from C.O.J. Denim Production`s Cutting Scraps  

You might have already noticed on some of our jeans there is a blueish pocket bag fabric used. This fabric contains 15% of recycled cotton that comes out of our own productions. This was an R&D project at the beginning.

Recycled yarns tend to be less durable under industrial denim finishing processes. The aim of the project was to create a fabric that contained recycled cotton and that is at least as strong as the original fabric which contained only conventional cotton. The result of the project was a success, the final fabric was even stronger than the original.

We scaled up the prototype for bulk.We collected denim cutting scraps from our own productions. Cutting scraps are shredded into fibers in textile recycling facilities. Those fibers are spun as yarns and a pocket bag fabric is woven with those yarns. We are currently using this fabric on some our garments.