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Yibin Grace

Products: VSF / Rayon, VFY, Lyocell

Risk Status
No Known High Risk
Next Gen Solutions
Next Gen
Chemical Management (out of 8)
1.5
Hot Button Score (out of 40)
33 =
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Risk of sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests

No Known High Risk

Yibin Grace published its third CanopyStyle Audit in 2024. The audit confirms that there is no known risk of sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests, and that the company is engaging with suppliers to collect additional information.

Areas where the company is showing leadership

  • Currently undertaking its fourth CanopyStyle Audit.  
  • Increased its use of FSC-certified fibre — currently over 90% of its fibre inputs are FSC Mix. 
  • 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.  
  • Has supported a forest conservation project in China in the watershed of the Yangtze River.
  • Has a viscose filament yarn called ReGracell®, made with 30% recycled cotton pulp, and a viscose staple fibre containing 30–50% recycled pulp.
  • Has opened a recycled dissolving pulp facility adjacent to its existing facilities, the first in China.  

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.
  • Continue to procure higher volumes of FSC 100% certified inputs from sources that have achieved FSC Forest Management certification on the ground.

Facilities

Yibin Grace produces a viscose filament yarn and a viscose staple fibre with 30%–50% Next Generation fibres, marketed under the name Regracell®. 

Yibin Grace produced viscose staple fibre and viscose filament yarn, and has three facilities: 

  • Yibin, Sichuan Province, China: viscose staple fibre with production of 220,000 tonnes 
  • Yibin, Sichuan Province, China: viscose filament yarn with production of 45,000 tonnes. 
  • Yibin, Sichuan Province, China: viscose staple fibre and lyocell with production of 130,000 tonnes. 

In spring 2025, the company also opened a dissolving pulp mill that uses recycled cotton inputs. It has a current capacity of 1,500 tonnes.  

These products contain non-forest-based raw materials which are not assessed in the CanopyStyle Audit, including bamboo sourced from China. 

Yibin Grace has a 30% stake in a fourth mill called Xinjiang Ya’ao, located in Xinjiang Province, China, making viscose filament yarn with production of 80,000 tonnes. This mill has not undergone a CanopyStyle Audit and is currently closed. 

All of Yibin’s mills have been registered on the ZDHC platform. However, the VSF mills which are eligible for assessment on all three modules did not undergo assessment this year. As a result, Yibin has achieved an orange flask.

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Hot Button Score

33 =

  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 pulp0.5/1
    6. Proportional contribution2/2
    7. Implementing ambitious scale-up0.5/2

  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 proactive0.5/1
    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

1.5

  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. 1.5/2

  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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