Yesim Textile, one of Turkey’s leading vertically-integrated manufacturers of knit products for US and European retailers, has been piloting a new joint auditing model where brands supervise their suppliers under a single social compliance audit.
This unified approach to factory monitoring has been developed over the past three years by the Social & Labor Convergence Project (SLCP) with input from companies such as NIKE, Timberland, Esprit, Tommy Hilfiger, adidas and Puma.
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Its goal is to move the apparel and footwear industry from excessive audits, increase the effectiveness of factory audits, reduce audit fatigue, and better utilise collective resources in the apparel supply chain. Yesim Textile joined the SLCP at the end of 2017, and was selected as the pilot company for the first joint audit in January this year.
The update is one of a number of milestones included in the latest Progress Report from the company, one of the four largest fully integrated yarns-to-finished-product facilities in the world. Based in Bursa in northwest Turkey, it has a daily production capacity of 55 tons of knitted fabric, 70 tons of dyed fabric, 100,000 metres of printed fabric, and 150,000 garments for customers including Nike, Under Armour, Zara, Tommy Hilfiger, Aldi, Tchibo and Esprit.
Yesim Textile employs 2709 people in-house and provides employment to around 10,000 workers in in its wider supply chain.
Other developments include using more Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) yarn, with the company purchasing more than 1m kg of BCI yarn in 2017 as it moves closer to the goal of using 100% BCI certificated cotton yarn by 2020.
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By GlobalDataUnder its ‘Vizyon 2021’ project, investment has also been stepped up in innovation and R&D to bring new value added and innovative products to the global marketplace.
A new R&D Centre was opened in August last year, while a new Innovation and Creativity Working Group includes a representative from every department within Yesim.
The focus is on innovation in products and production processes, to raise the quality and standards of products, to increase productivity, to reduce production costs, to commercialise technological knowledge, to develop pre-competitive collaboration, and to employ more R&D staff. There is also an emphasis on sustainability (water, energy, productivity, cost), innovative fabric development, print design, nanotechnology and smart textiles.
One of the Centre’s first projects is to develop a textile fabric that increases body resistance through microencapsulation technology, and could be used in the defence industry.
