Denim Privé takes a deeper have a look at its affect within the 2022 sustainability report it not too long ago launched.
The inaugural report from the Kassim Group-owned vertically built-in unit particulars its 5 sustainability pillars: useful resource effectivity, social duty, collaboration, innovation and transparency.
As Pakistan’s first LEED Platinum facility, Denim Privé states that its operations and manufacturing processes optimize manufacturing output relative to environmental useful resource consumption and waste manufacturing.
Local weather motion is a key focus for the family-owned firm which produced 3.9 million items in 2022.
Final yr, Denim Privé achieved a per-piece greenhouse gasoline emissions discount of 5 %.
The garment producer is working towards a low-carbon future that goes past the targets of Science-Primarily based Targets Initiative and the Paris Settlement, nevertheless. It goals to be carbon impartial by 2030, and plans to halve its carbon footprint by 2027.
Denim Privé stated it’s “chipping away at this aim” by monitoring power consumption, analyzing Scope 3 emissions to seek out areas for enchancment and utilizing clear and renewable power produced onsite and implementing “cutting-edge” applied sciences and processes.
The corporate is within the strategy of increasing its onsite photo voltaic farm. By the tip of 2023, the set up will develop from 1,609 kW to 2,490 kW, producing an estimated 80 % of its complete electrical consumption.
“Executing these methods, we goal to realize local weather neutrality and exhibit industry-leading power efficiency. Finally it will elevate the bar for the style {industry} and present our friends that denim and attire manufacturing doesn’t want to return at the price of the local weather and future generations,” Denim Privé states within the report.
From hemp to cotton, pure fibers accounted for 91 % of the material Denim Privé utilized in 2022.
The corporate is wanting into extra accountable and regenerative farming practices, significantly by farmers who’re a part of Higher Cotton’s sustainability work. In 2022, 83 % of the cotton that Denim Privé used for clothes was BCI. The goal is to extend that share to 100% by the tip of 2023.
Recycled fibers are a precedence as effectively. In 2022, recycled cotton accounted for 4 % of the supplies utilized in Denim Privé’s cotton-based merchandise.
Complete water consumption elevated 8.5 % from 2021 to 2022, nevertheless Denim Privé stated a lot of the water utilization distinction got here from the development of one other constructing on its campus.
Whereas the quantity of manufacturing water per piece barely moved from 2021 to 2022 (64.90 liters to 64.72 liters), the corporate stated it continues to work in direction of its 2025 course of water consumption goal of fifty liters per piece. Applied sciences like Blue Volt, which makes use of a sprig system to dye clothes, and ending and washing options from Jeanologia, Yilmak, Tonello and Garmon are serving to drive down water utilization.
In 2022, 80 % of its manufacturing chemical substances complied with ZDHC’s requirements.
Third-party verification is a “built-in mode of security and transparency” for chemical administration, Denim Privé said. Verifications are carried out by SGS, Bluesign, ZDHC, OEKO-TEX and ToxFMD Screened Chemistry.
By 2025, Denim Privé states that it intends “to affix the SAC as a Company Member, becoming a member of different leaders in sustainable vogue to advance the Higg Index” and to change into a contributor to the ZDHC.
The corporate can also be organizing a Sustainability Committee to combine the consideration of financial, environmental, and social points into decision-making, operations and enterprise processes.