SGS has been approved as the first third-party laboratory member of The Microfibre Consortium (TMC). SGS is the leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification company. As a result, it will soon be extending its fiber fragmentation testing services to consortium member organizations and the more comprehensive textile and apparel industry.
The Microfibre Consortium (TMC) facilitates practical solutions for the textile industry to minimize fiber fragmentation and release it to the textile manufacturing and product life cycle environment. The organization presents the opportunity to align globally as an industry through its connection through its member base at the brand, retail, supplier, research, industry, and policy level. This cross-industry connection expedites understanding and reducing the possibility of repetition of research. This collaborative approach allows more extensive experience and progress to understand levels that would be unattainable in a stand-alone organization.
The issue of fiber fragmentation and its potential as a severe environmental polluter has become increasingly acknowledged. The goal of the TMC, founded in 2018, is to facilitate the development of practical solutions for the industry to minimize the fragmentation of fibers and the release of microfibres into the environment from textile manufacturing and product life cycles.
Yvonne Tse, SGS Softlines vice president, said, “We are delighted to become TMC’s first approved third party laboratory and welcome the opportunity it brings to work collaboratively with TMC members and the wider textile and apparel industry to support them in taking the practical steps needed to accelerate reductions in fiber fragmentation.”
