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Century Rayon

Products: VFY

Risk Status
No Known High Risk
Next Gen Solutions
Chemical Management (out of 8)
N/A
Hot Button Score (out of 40)
25 =
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Risk of sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests

No Known High Risk

The company’s 2023 CanopyStyle Audit confirmed that the majority of Century Rayon’s suppliers are at low risk of sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests and other controversial sources. The one supplier that had potential risk has since been eliminated from the supply chain. Century Rayon has agreed to conduct another CanopyStyle Audit in 2025 to confirm this.

Areas where the company is showing leadership

  • Has published its second CanopyStyle Audit in 2023, and plans to undergo its third in early 2025.
  • Has made a publicly-available commitment to full implementation of its forest sourcing policy. This commitment has been communicated to all its suppliers.
  • Has traceability systems in place for its products to allow customers to track from MMCF fibre to garment.

Has called on signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to develop the regulatory mechanisms necessary to ensure that the Convention’s goals for nature protection are prioritized.

  • Working with Next Gen fibre on technical feasibility, and has successfully conducted a trial. 
  • Century Rayon has contributed to a sign-on letter calling for governments to support enabling conditions for the scale up of Next Generation Solutions.

Key Improvements Required

  • Continue to invest in efforts to develop and significantly scale the use of Next Generation Solutions in order to reduce impacts on forests.
  • Increasing the amount of FSC fibre used, with a focus on FSC Mix and FSC 100% (instead of Controlled Wood). 
  • Conduct a CanopyStyle Audit in 2025. 
  • Continue to proactively use ForestMapper and complementary guidance to avoid sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests.

Facilities

Century Rayon has one production site in Murbad, India, with capacity of 29,300 tonnes viscose filament yarn.

Aditya Birla’s Grasim Industries Limited manages and operates Century Rayon, including sourcing, product invoicing, and other operations, including certain liabilities. 

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Hot Button Score

25 =

  1. Completion of CanopyStyle Third-Party Verification Audits

    1. Conducts Audits 2/2
    2. Audits published and results acted on2/2
    3. Audit risk results1.5/2

  2. Contribution to Conservation Legacies

    1. Promotes Ancient and Endangered Forest conservation2/2
    2. Supports conservation targets 1/1
    3. Influences supply chain and decision makers0.5/2
    4. Contributes to legislated protection0/2
    5. Extra responsibility: additional support for conservation0/2

  3. Innovation via New Alternative Fibres

    1. Advocates for Next Gen 1/1
    2. Invests in R&D1/1
    3. Has a commercial-scale product 0.5/2
    4. Publishes targets and timelines0.5/2
    5. Uses Next Gen pulp0/1
    6. Proportional contribution0.5/2
    7. Implementing ambitious scale-up0/2

  4. Adoption of Robust Forest Sourcing Policy

    1. Has a policy2/2
    2. Policy aligns with CanopyStyle2/2

  5. Traceability & Transparency

    1. Has track and trace systems1/1
    2. Publishes list of suppliers2/2
    3. Conducts due diligence in sourcing1.5/2

  6. Leaders in Supply Chain Shifts

    1. Is responsive and proactive1/1
    2. Acts on FSC preference 0.5/1
    3. Supports ForestMapper1/1
    4. Addresses risk1.5/2

  7. Associated with High Risk of Sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests and other Controversial Sources

    1. High risk sourcing0/-5

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Sustainable Chemical Management

N/A

  1. Participation in ZDHC

    The company is an active participant in ZDHC, where all of their viscose staple fibre and modal staple fibre facilities have joined the ZDHC Supplier Platform and have access to the MMCF Module. N/A

  2. Chemical Recovery

    All of the company’s MMCF viscose staple fibre and modal staple fibre facilities have reached at least the Progressive level in their chemical recovery parameters and limit value, according to Chapter 1: ZDHC MMCF Responsible Fibre Production Guidelines V2.2 N/A

  3. Wastewater

    All of the company’s MMCF viscose staple fibre and modal staple fibre facilities have reached at least the Progressive level in their wastewater discharge parameters and limit values, according to Chapter 2: ZDHC MMCF Wastewater Guidelines V2.2 N/A

  4. Air Emissions

    All of the company’s viscose staple fibre and modal staple fibre facilities have reached at least the Progressive level in their hazardous chemicals’ air emissions parameters and limit values, according to Chapter 3: ZDHC MMCF Air Emissions Guidelines V2.2 N/A

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