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What is GRS certification?

GRS certification stands for Global Recycled Standard. It is a voluntary, international, and fully productized certification for the recycling and supervision of production products. GRS Certification Global Recycling Standard (GRS) is developed for the needs of the textile industry. In order to obtain GRS certification, all companies involved in the entire supply chain, including semi-finished product suppliers, must meet the standards required by GRS certification. If you want to do GRS, then its upstream supplier must also have a GRS certification certificate. However, under normal circumstances, upstream suppliers do not need to be considered by us. We mainly serve the downstream. GRS certification mainly examines social responsibility standards, chemicals and environment, and management systems.

GRS certification basic production management document list

1. GRS production management manual and procedures

2. GRS raw material supplier evaluation records

3. GRS Raw Material Procurement Document Summary

4. GRS raw material acceptance inspection records

Why is GRS certification so popular?

The passing of GRS certification is international recognition. Products that have obtained the GRS mark have all the requirements of GRS certification. Secondly, GRS certification includes five major requirements: traceability, environmental protection, social responsibility, recycling label and general principles. Each aspect has its complete requirements and criteria. Finally, the product will become a designated processing enterprise for many domestic and foreign brand owners, and can also provide globally recognized GRS hangtags to enhance its own brand.

What specific industries can do GRS certification?

GRS certification is a certification for the recycled material content in products and corporate business practices. In fact, as long as the recycled material content in the company's products reaches more than 20%, GRS certification can be obtained. When the recycled material content in the product reaches more than 50%, the GRS label can be used. We now see that many products are affixed with the GRS certification logo, which means that the recycled material content of this company's product has reached more than 50%.

GRS certification is more common in the textile industry. Many clothing brands require suppliers to do GRS certification. Companies such as ADIDAS and H&M require their suppliers to do GRS certification. For example, the upper material of the more common environmentally friendly concept shoes is made from recycled marine waste and fishing nets confiscated from illegal poaching ships. The knitted upper is composed of 95% marine plastic and 5% recyclable polyester fibers. It is reported that these sneakers consume an average of 11 plastic bottles per pair. Such products can be GRS certified. The plastic industry can also do GRS certification, because many of the products we usually use are made of plastic. We recycle plastic into products, which has a significant effect on environmental protection, so many companies now advocate GRS certification. In addition, there are many clothing accessories factories, such as zipper factories, that do GRS.

Benefits of GRS certification

Global recognition makes it easier to enter the international stage

Standard recycled content labeling

Have the opportunity to be included in the procurement list of international buyers and world-renowned companies

Enhance the market competitiveness of enterprises in terms of "green" and "environmental protection"

Strengthening corporate awareness

Among them, simply being included in the purchasing list of international buyers and world-famous companies is very powerful. More and more international famous companies are playing the "environmental protection" card, and recycled and recyclable materials are their "favorites". If you have the opportunity to join the industrial chain of international brands, it means long-term cooperation and can also enhance your own image.

GRS is the golden key to open the international environmental protection market!

GRS certification allows waste to be recycled, no more resources are developed, and environmental pollution is reduced. It is a threshold certificate for customers to place orders. Whoever has a GRS certificate will have priority in receiving orders, because GRS is a traceability certification. As long as your upstream or downstream has requirements, you have to do it, otherwise you cannot issue a TC transaction certificate, and without a transaction certificate, you cannot explain to the final buyer.

Currently, the world is advocating environmental protection, and many big brands have responded. If you want to take these orders now, you need to do GRS certification. This is also the reason why GRS has become so popular in the past two years.

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