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Transparency tech: solutions for materials tracking
January 1st, 2024
Preparing a cotton sample. “Any volume of fiber can be tagged,” says MeiLin Wan of Applied DNA Sciences. “For example, if 20 million pounds of cotton need to be tagged at a particular gin or spinner, we can provide the automated CertainT® tagging system to achieve this. We have tagged hundreds of millions of pounds […]
Fair-trade products + blockchain = transparency
June 1st, 2023
London College of Fashion/University of the Arts London students (from left): Sophia Lin, Isha Arora, Faegheh K Band and Jiarui Shi with the “Sandra” Clapping Bag. Photo: LCF/UAL Supply-chain transparency, meet blockchain. Students at the London College of Fashion (LCF) have used the technology to follow the production of fair-trade textile products and create irrefutable […]
Supima partners with TextileGenesis to improve traceability
June 14th, 2022
TextileGenesis and Supima announce a strategic partnership to establish the new industry benchmark platform for authenticating cotton. The Supima blockchain platform powered by TextileGenesis™ will digitally connect Supima’s comprehensive supply chain from the growers to the brand/retailers. Integrated with this digital platform, Supima’s technology partner Oritain™ will provide the forensic origin authentication for Supima cotton […]