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Tangshan Sanyou

Products: VSF / Rayon, Lyocell

Risk Status
No Known High Risk
Next Gen Solutions
Next Gen
Chemical Management (out of 8)
8
Hot Button Score (out of 40)
34.5 =
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Risk of sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests

No Known High Risk

Tangshan Sanyou is currently undertaking its fourth CanopyStyle Audit. The last audit showed no known risk of sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests. 

Areas where the company is showing leadership

  • Conducting its fourth CanopyStyle Audit. 
  • Has increased its procurement of FSC certified fibre in 2025. 
  • Is encouraging a supplier to engage with Canopy and increase its transparency. 
  • Has traceability systems in place for its products to allow customers to track from MMCF fibre to garment.  
  • Has called on the UN Climate COP30 to prioritize financial mechanisms to support circularity and nature-based climate solutions.  
  • Supported the restoration of a mining site in Tangshan city.  
  • Was the first MMCF producer to use significant quantities of CIRCULOSE® and continues to have a public partnership with the innovator. 
  • Commercial production of viscose staple fibre made from 20–50% post-consumer recycled cotton textiles called Tangcell™ ReVisco™ (using both Sodra OnceMore® and CIRCULOSE®). 
  • Publicly announced its intention to scale-up ReVisco™ to 200,000 tonnes pending brand demand. Has retrofitted its production line to allow for the production of more Next Generation fibre. 
  • Actively promotes its collaboration with Canopy and the use of Next Gen fibres. 
  • Opened a testing site for a recycled line in 2025 that converts recycled cotton directly into MMCF. 

Key Improvements Required

  • Significantly scale the use of Next Generation Solutions in order to reduce current impacts on forests.  Prioritize the integration and sourcing of Next Generation Solution technologies and feedstocks for future expansion plans and new suppliers.
  • Proactively use ForestMapper and complementary guidance to avoid sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests, and work to acquire further information from suppliers.
  • Continue to procure higher volumes of FSC 100% or FSC Mix certified inputs from sources that have achieved FSC Forest Management certification on the ground. 

Facilities

Tangshan Sanyou produces a viscose staple fibre made from 30–50% post-consumer recycled content dissolving pulp called ReVisco™. This product was the first MMCF containing post-consumer recycled textiles. It has also successfully created a Next Gen lyocell product.  

The Tangshan Sanyou Group Company Limited produces Man-made Cellulosic Fibre and nonwovens. Tangshan Sanyou facilities are located in Caofeidian District, Tangshan, Hebei Province, China. Sanyou’s MMCF contains a small portion of non-forest-based raw materials that are not assessed by the CanopyStyle Audit, such as bamboo sourced from China. 

Together these mills have a combined viscose staple fibre capacity of 800,000 tonnes and lyocell capacity of 9,000 tonnes. 

All VSF facilities have been registered on the ZDHC platform and have achieved either progressive or aspirational level in all the three modules related to chemical management: chemical recovery, wastewater discharge, and air emissions.  As a result, Tangshan Sanyou has a dark green flask.

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Hot Button Score

34.5 =

  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 makers2/2
    4. Contributes to legislated protection0.5/2
    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 2/2
    4. Publishes targets and timelines2/2
    5. Uses Next Gen pulp1/1
    6. Proportional contribution2/2
    7. Implementing ambitious scale-up1/2

  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 systems0.5/1
    2. Publishes list of suppliers2/2
    3. Conducts due diligence in sourcing2/2

  6. Leaders in Supply Chain Shifts

    1. Is responsive and proactive1/1
    2. Acts on FSC preference 1/1
    3. Supports ForestMapper1/1
    4. Addresses risk2/2

  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

8

  1. Participation in ZDHC

    The company is an active participant in ZDHC, where all of their MMCF facilities have joined the ZDHC Supplier Platform and have access to the MMCF Module. 2/2

  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 V2.22/2

  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 V2.22/2

  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 V2.22/2

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