Transparency in supply chains, increasing recycling rates, & protection against product piracy are very common issues nowadays in the Textile and Apparel Industry. Tailorlux GmbH – integrity solutions sees itself as a technology partner for all industries that want to implement a product protection concept, circularity or more transparency in supply chains. Tailorlux offers marking and detection from a single source. Their engineers focus on marking products and materials efficiently and safely, using high-quality sensors and unique expertise in spectroscopy and materials science.
Recently Team Textile Focus had a conversation with Tobias Herzog, Managing Director of Tailorlux regarding the traceability concept in the textile and apparel industry & ongoing business scenario. The key topics of the conversation are mentioned below for our readers.
Could you please brief about Tailorlux Integrity Solution?
Tailorlux develops and implements industrial marking solutions to ensure material authenticity. The aim of the solution concepts is to protect and prove the integrity of materials and products. With well-known international customers, Tailorlux GmbH is one of the most important suppliers of covert industrial markings for recycling, product protection and traceability.
How Tailorlux can help the Fashion Industry?
Tailorlux can add a physical tracer, an indestructible tracer to natural fibres and man-made fibres. This can help fashion brands to address procurement risks and manage an intelligence gap for the product passport. This solution goes beyond paperwork and helps to digitize feedstock for more transparency in the supply chain and to make the impact visible. For example, it is possible to determine the recycled content of yarns and fabric with traceable materials. In a time where greenwashing becomes an apparent threat, the tracer solution is a way to substantiate recycling claims with the highest proof of integrity.
Who could be benefitted from Tailorlux within Textile Supply Chain?
Every supply chain member has a story to tell: Low-impact material like recycled feedstock or substitutions for fossil-based materials can have their own signature to make impact visible. This allows brands to connect to a 4th tier supplier and share their impact story with consumers.
Brands can rely on sound technology and can benefit from third-party certification as well. Tailorlux is cooperating with Eurofins as an independent verifier of the Tailorlux tracer. This is a huge benefit for brands as they can have the best of both worlds the innovation of a physical tracer and the certificate of a verification authority.
How do you see the Bangladesh market for your Solutions?
Bangladesh is the rising star of textiles and especially for textile recycling. We are thrilled to enter the market with some of our dosing devices soon. These devices are the foundation to create digital twins of recycled feedstock and present yarn and fabric with a sound dataset about the heritage of materials.
