The Cotton Dilemma

In her current article for Textilwirtschaft on the global topic of cotton, Ulrike Wollenschläger also explores the fundamental question of the traceability of cotton. According to experts, the textile market is not very transparent and the available data is difficult to verify. The first methods for determining the origin still appear to be very costly and not very scalable.

Marion Röttges does not accept the argument of great effort. “For me, it is a question of the extent to which one takes responsibility,” says the co-CEO of the Swiss company Remei AG. At Remei, the specialist for organic cotton and organic cotton textiles, transparency is part of the DNA from the seed to the finished garment. Remei has control from the field. But, “If you come from the finished product and try to go back down the chain to the beginning, you face an anonymous raw material market. And then it becomes difficult”. Marion Röttges is certain that the conventional global raw material systems are almost impossible to understand. Complete traceability to the cotton farmers is virtually impossible.

Remei offers B2B trading partners traceable organic cotton textiles from a transparent supply chain and concrete trading relationships with farmers, Fiber to Fashion.

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