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Nanjing Chemical Fibre Co., Ltd.

Products: VSF / Rayon

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

No Known High Risk

The company completed its second CanopyStyle Audit in 2023 and published it in 2024. The audit showed that the company has eliminated known risk, but still sources from a company that may have potential risk. 

Areas where the company is showing leadership

  • Completed its second CanopyStyle Audit in 2023, which confirmed elimination of known risk.
  • Increased its use of FSC Mix and FSC 100% in 2024.

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. 

  • Is collaborating with a university on feasibility research using cotton straw pulp and working with a technical university on the potential of waste textile recycling.
  • Has been testing cotton linter and FSC-certified bamboo fibre feedstocks. Canopy deems this a reasonable “transitional” step towards Next Gen, while encouraging scale-up in the use of recycled textiles, agricultural residues, and other full Next Generation Solutions. 
  • Has plans to procure pulp from innovators while working on the co-development of recycled pulp to feed its own facilities.

Key Improvements Required

  • Undertake additional due diligence on any suppliers with unknown or potential risk of sourcing from recently converted forests, developing mitigation measures if/when risk is identified.
  • Continue work to scale-up Next Generation alternative fibre production to reduce the impacts on forests, including further developing recycled fibre or agricultural residue potential.
  • Continue to procure higher volumes of FSC 100% or FSC Mix certified inputs.
  • Develop internal traceability systems or use an external traceability platform to allow customers to track from MMCF fibre to garment.

Facilities

Nanjing Chemical Fibre owns two mills:

  • A viscose staple fibre mill in Yancheng City, Jiangsu, China, with 80,000 tonnes capacity.
  • A lyocell staple fibre mill in Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China, with 40,000 tonnes capacity 
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Hot Button Score

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  1. Completion of CanopyStyle Third-Party Verification Audits

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

  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 0/2
    4. Publishes targets and timelines0.5/2
    5. Uses Next Gen pulp0/1
    6. Proportional contribution0/2
    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 systems0/1
    2. Publishes list of suppliers2/2
    3. Conducts due diligence in sourcing0.5/2

  6. Leaders in Supply Chain Shifts

    1. Is responsive and proactive0.5/1
    2. Acts on FSC preference 1/1
    3. Supports ForestMapper0/1
    4. Addresses risk1/2

  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

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  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.0/2

  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 V2.20/2

  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 V2.20/2

  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 V2.20/2

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