Welcome to the Partnership!
We are pleased to welcome WEITBLICK to the Textiles Partnership.
The new Partnership member from Bavaria has been selling and producing workwear since 1931. The products combine functionality and sustainable design for a variety of industries, including industrial companies and restaurants.
Let´s Play, Fair! Das war das Arbeitstreffen 2022
Report of the German Institute for Human Rights (Review Process)
Launch of the Partnership Initiative on Organic Cotton in India
On 17 and 18 May, the Textiles Partnership will meet at BeachMitte in Berlin.
At this year's Working Meeting, not only the location is special, but also the concept deviates from the usual process. Unlike in previous years, the participants determine the agenda themselves on the second day and contribute their topics.
Welcome to the Partnership!
We are pleased to welcome the Artus Group to the Textiles Partnership.
The Artus Group sees itself as a solution provider for the circular economy with a focus on the fashion industry. The new Partnership member offers holistic and integrative solutions for the physical processes in combination with digital applications.
Partnership Initiative Tamil Nadu starts its second phase
Increased participation, more exchange, but less spinning mills
The joint commitment to improved grievance structures in spinning mills and the promotion of stakeholder dialogue continues. The focus of the second phase is on around 40 spinning mills in the four districts of Coimbatore, Dindigul, Erode and Tiruppur.
Guidance for the collection of gender-disaggregated data
New guidance on gender data indicators
Although women make up the majority of employees in the textile indus-try, they are often overlooked in statistics. Systematic disadvantages and discrimination are not only detrimental to them personally, but also have negative consequences for the entire economy.
Call for participation: Learning & Implementation Community
Call for participation: Learning & Implementation Community
Companies committed to sheding a light on their purchasing practices and making them more responsible are invited to join the Common Framework for Purchasing Practices' Learning & Implementation Community. Learn more about the Common Framework for Purchasing Practices
Welcome to the Partnership!
Circular Economy: PST participates in the Standardization Roadmap
Standardization Roadmap on circular economy
A Standardization Roadmap is intended to provide an overview of the status quo of standardization in the field of circular economy, describe requirements and challenges for seven key topics and identify and formulate the concrete need for action for future norms and standards.
OECD Forum: Textiles Partnership co-organises two side sessions
Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices
Comments still possible until 14 January
To achieve better purchasing practices, a group of different multi-stakeholder initiatives are developing the Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices. It is intended to address companies and multi-stakeholder initiatives alike and serve as a guide to improving purchasing practices.
Welcome to the Partnership!
We are happy to welcome VDFI to the Partnership!
The VDFI bundles the interests of the down and feather industry vis-à-vis politics, administration and the public. The association's tasks include a strong commitment to quality assurance and standardization work, the preparation of economic data and the provision of information material.
In presence and online: Working Meeting 2021
Handling the situation in Myanmar
Positions of the stakeholder groups in the steering committee
Since the military coup in Myanmar, the Partnership Secretariat has been informing the members of the Textiles Partnership on a weekly basis about current developments in the country. It turns out that the military is using increasing violence against opposition members and trade unionists.
Partnerships 2030: Factsheets on the SDGs
Advantages of multi-stakeholder partnerships in addressing complex challenges
How do multi-stakeholder partnerships (MAGPs) contribute to the successfully implementing of the 2030 Agenda? Partnerships2030 discusses this question in a factsheet series. In the factsheet on SDG1, the Textiles Partnership is listed as an example MAP.
Free E-Learning on Chemical Management
E-Learning der GIZ auf der Lernplattform atingi
A new e-learning teaches the basics of chemicals management. The aim of the online training is, among other things, to raise awareness of health and environmental risks and to enable to perform risk analysis and implement measures accordingly international standards.
Partnership Initiative Complaints Mechanisms: Start of the second module in Pakistan
Module to strengthen internal factory grievance mechanisms
Since 2020, the Partnership's Grievance Mechanisms Initiative has supported Partnership members in implementing effective grievance mechanisms in their supply chains. A first module of the Partnership Initiative started in April 2021 and is now complemented by another module in Pakistan.
Welcome to the Partnership!
Assessment of available tools for measuring GHG emissions
Webinar series: Textile Industry and Climate Change
Welcome to the Partnership!
We are pleased to welcome Atair to the Textiles Partnership.
The new Partnership member from the Münsterland region with around 35 employees attach-es great importance to its ecological footprint and responsible resource procurement. Atair produces hosiery for private labels, its own brands or licensed brands.
Our impact to the fields of transformation
Opportunities and challenges in recyclability
Presentation of the project results on product cloning
Designing products to be sustainable and recyclable? That is possible, as a project of the working group recycling shows. Nine PST member companies nominated ten of their products and had them analysed by the University Niederrhein. The results have now been presented.
Voices on Textiles #2: Interview with Jürgen Janssen
Welcome to the Partnership!
We are pleased to welcome Ethical Made to the Textiles Partnership.
"All together for the planet" is the motto of the Cologne-based label Ethical Made. The ethi-cally acceptable fashion brand has set itself the goal of driving change in the textile industry. A special focus is on climate protection.
PPA & PPSA for better purchasing practices and higher wages
FEA study "CLOTHES with HOOKS"
Global environmental impact of the production of our clothing
The German Federal Environment Agency (FEA), a member of the Textiles Partnership, published the study "CLOTHES with HOOKS". In it, the UBA examines the global environmental impact of our consumption of clothing. One focus is water use in arid regions for raw materials and textile production.
Review Process 2021: Publication of Reports
36 Berichte ab heute online
The Review Process represents the individual responsibility of the companies in the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) to implement due diligence in their supply network. The aim of the Review Process is to analyse the most serious social, environmental and corruption risks and to prevent them effectively. Today, the PST publishes the first 34 Review Reports.
Climate Action: Renewed Fashion Charter
Reference document for the Textiles Partnership
At the World Climate Conference in Glasgow, the Fashion Charter presented the new version of the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, which serves as a reference document for the Textiles Partnership and its members to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Launch of the Living Wage Lab
Zusammen für existenzsichernde Löhne
With the launch of the Living Wage Lab, the Partnership Initiative Living Wages entered a new phase. The aim of the Living Wage Lab is to support PST members in developing and implementing individual living wage strategies and to develop scalable solutions together with their suppliers.