Denim mill Arvind Limited has partnered with blockchain-enabled digital transparency platform TextileGenesis to ensure better transparency across its supply chain As per Sourcing Journal, the platform enables digitization and traceability of any textile asset such as fiber, yarn, fabric or garment through ‘Fibercoins’ or blockchain-based digital tokens—that any textile company can directly link to an asset.

Arvind recently doubled its transparency initiatives by joining the Ellen MacArthur Jeans Redesign project and supporting a pilot project by Fashion For Good. The company’s partnership with TextileGenesis will enable it to include full trace and track details of some of the most sustainable offerings, such as its single-origin non-conflict cotton Renaissance range of recycled cotton, polyester and other man-made fibers details.

For years, Arvind’s subsidiary Arvind Envisol has worked to expand its Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) wastewater technology beyond India. In 2017, it collaborated with the Ethiopian government to set up plants at Hawassa Industrial Park, and last year, it announced a strategic partnership with Hong Kong’s Epic Group, one of the world’s leading garment manufacturers, to reduce the latter’s environmental footprint across Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Jordan and elsewhere in India.