Certifications

Social Accountability SA8000 was created with the aim of extending, in the business world, the ethical principles based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on ISO documents and other international and national standards concerning human and labor rights.

Is one of the most recognized environmental management certifications that specifies ways to enhance a company's environmental performance. It encourages continual improvement that extends to a company’s supply chain, while also considering environmental impact from a lifecycle perspective.

An internationally recognized standard that sets out a criteria for a quality management system to guarantee responding to customer needs and ongoing improvement of processes.

Is an international standard that specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system to enable organizations to provide a safe and healthy workplace by preventing work-related injury and ill health through a proactive approach to improve OH&S performance.

The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals is a program aimed at eliminating hazardous chemicals from the textile and footwear supply chain. In 2017, Candiani joined the group of brands and other value chain affiliates by committing to cleaner and more sustainable chemical management practices. In 2019, Candiani formalized this commitment even more by becoming ZDHC Contributors.

Addressing eleven chemical groups of most concern this campaign demands companies to stop polluting waterways with hazardous chemicals from clothing production. Candiani formalized its commitment to Detox the fashion value chain in 2015, despite having long ago already eliminated the chemical groups of most concern from its own production.

A suite of assessment tools developed by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition with the aim of harmonizing sustainability audits. Since 2018, Candiani assesses its performance according to the HIGG Facility Environmental Module (FEM), and in 2021, Candiani also began utilizing the Social & Labor Module (FSLM), both of which are verified on an annual basis.

GOTS is the most widely recognized voluntary certification for organic textiles. This stringent standard requires complete supply chain traceability, strong social compliance, and environmental management practices while banning the use of GMOs and highly hazardous chemicals. Fabrics certified GOTS must have 70% or more organic content.

Starting in 2011, Candiani was the first denim company to use cotton grown, produced, and marketed according to Better Cotton standards. Founded on seven principles–crop protection, water stewardship, soil health, biodiversity, responsible land use, fiber quality, decent work, and an effective management system–Better Cotton aims to promote measurable and continuous improvements for the environment and farming communities.

OCS is another certification that affirms organic content in finished products. This standard covers the purchase, handling, and use of certified organic materials, but not inputs and production processes. A range of Candiani fabrics are certified according to OCS when their organic content is less than 70% (the minimum threshold of GOTS) and more than 5%.

This voluntary, international standard verifies recycled content in finished products. It sets requirements for supply chain traceability, social and environmental management practices, and chemical restrictions. Products certified GRS must contain at least 20% recycled content.

Certifies fabrics that contain at least 5% recycled material. Each stage in the production chain must be certified, but it does not take into consideration social or environmental aspects of processing or manufacturing.

Is one of the first international systems of control and certification that guarantees the safety of the raw materials and the absence of harmful chemicals in the finished fabric. Candiani has been Oeko-tex Standard 100 certified since 1996.

The regenagri® Content Standard is an international, voluntary standard that provides a chain of custody certification for materials originating from farms certified according to the regenargi® standard. Final fabrics must contain at least 50% regeneratively grown fibers.

This standard is used to determine a product's compostability. Typically applied to packaging, this standard was also utilized to confirm COREVA™'s compostability. Since there is not yet a dedicated certification process for compostable fabric, packaging material was considered to be the material category most similar to COREVA™.