Measured, documented sustainability.

Yes. Solar panels (PV) on the roof of our Çorlu factory feed part of our production with renewable energy and reduce what we draw from the grid during the day. The PV generates roughly 3,000,000 kWh a year (Fersan’s own measurement, independent verification in progress); we will publish its share of consumption once that measurement is verified.

We don’t discharge dyehouse water untreated. We measure what we use, reduce it step by step and return what’s reclaimed to the loop; environmental impact is managed through our ISO 14001 environmental management system.

Water and energy consumption per kilogram is measured and reported within the Higg FEM framework. We do not publish the figure here as a marketing headline; once your brand opens access on Worldly, you can see our facility data directly.

Energy is tracked under the ISO 50001 energy management system: consumption data is measured, targeted and opened to independent audit. That certificate means the savings claim is tested by an annual audit rather than asserted.

Dyehouse chemical management runs within the ZDHC MRSL framework and inputs are OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 certified. Chemistry practice at facility level is additionally tested by the OEKO-TEX STeP audit.

Waste management starts with measuring cutting and set-up losses, and resource management is tracked under ISO 14001. Vertical integration helps here too: running yarn to fabric under one roof removes the losses caused by intermediate transport and repackaging.

Higg FEM measures a facility’s environmental performance across seven areas: environmental management system, energy and greenhouse gases, water, wastewater, air emissions, waste and chemical management. It starts as a self-assessment; in the verified version an independent auditor confirms it.

Energy and greenhouse-gas data is collected within Higg FEM and tracked under ISO 50001. We do not publish a verified per-product carbon figure; when your brand needs a product-level calculation, we share the data so it can be worked with your own methodology.

Road freight from Thrace into Europe travels a far shorter distance than sea freight from the Far East, and transport distance is not a negligible line in a fabric’s total impact. In packaging we avoid unnecessary layers and plan roll dimensions around container fill.

Every claim has an independent credential behind it: recycled content by GRS/RCS, chemical safety by OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100, facility practice by STeP, environmental management by ISO 14001, energy by ISO 50001 and facility performance by Higg FEM. Copies and verification links are on the certificates page.

Yes. We hold a GRS 4.0 + RCS 2.0 scope certificate; a Transaction Certificate (TC) is what proves a specific shipment is certified. Tell us the weight and colour of rPET you need and we’ll pull what fits.

GRS requires at least 20% recycled content, and 50% is the common threshold for a product claim; we set the construction to the brand’s communication goal. Whatever the share, it is documented per shipment with a Transaction Certificate — “contains recycled content” alone is not a verifiable claim.

The honest answer: it needs less virgin petroleum than new polyester and usually less energy, but it is not a solution on its own. Bottle-sourced rPET leaves the bottle-to-bottle loop, and fibre-to-fibre recycling is still limited. The gain is real, and so are its limits.

Not when it is engineered properly. The concern comes from fibre length shortening during recycling; we limit that from the outset by working with filament rPET yarn. Weight, fastness and pilling are reported against the same thresholds for the rPET and the virgin version.

Yes — like all synthetics, it does. Published research indicates recycled polyester can shed more fibre than virgin polyester under some conditions. What reduces shedding sits in structure and finishing: a tighter knit, continuous filament and a clean cut surface. We treat this as a technical constraint to manage together, not a selling point.

Because the pigment is mixed into the melt, the fabric is not dyed afterwards: the dye bath, its rinse water and the energy of that step all disappear, and fastness rises. The trade-off is colour flexibility — free colour choice becomes harder at small lot sizes.

Our programme centres on polyester (PET) and recycled rPET. Bio-based polyesters such as PTT and PBT, and chemical recycling technologies, are covered in our Knowledge Centre; if a specific project calls for one, we assess it together with the yarn supply chain.

STANDARD 100 is product-level; it tests skin-contact fabric against harmful-substance limits. STeP assesses facility-level sustainability across six modules (overall result Level 2, ZDHC MRSL 3.1).

Because we run the chain from yarn to fabric ourselves, the lot record is unbroken — which is the groundwork the DPP requires. In recycled production, GRS and RCS chain of custody verifies that traceability independently. As the regulation firms up, we shape the data fields to your brand’s system.

No. We are a polyester knit mill; cotton/organic standards (GOTS, OCS) are outside our scope. Our focus is safety (OEKO-TEX) and recycling (GRS/RCS) credentials relevant to polyester.