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Global Leader Clothing Manufacturers Voluntarily Ban Sandblasting Technology

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Garment Brand Sandblasting Technology Alumina

International Garment Brands

Retailer

Including C&A, Carrefour, Esprit, H&M, Inditex and Levi Strauss jointly expressed the willingness to ban sandblasting in its global supply chain system, and urged other enterprises to join them.


Recently, the brands and retailers voice the labor in representing the global garment industry.

Textile garments

The joint statement was taken by the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers Federation ITGLWF.


Companies that signed a voluntary ban on sandblasting technology have agreed to terminate the entire supply chain.

Sandblasting Technology

To carry out the production of products.

The ban includes alumina, aluminosilicate, silicon carbide, copper slag and garnet used for abrasive spraying.


The manufacturers also indicated that they should spend the pitional period with their suppliers, and indicated that they would take the necessary steps to ensure that the ban could be effectively implemented.


Sandblasting is a process that produces fine appearance by blowing fine sand into jeans or other garments. However, sandblasting operations, if not taken properly, may cause workers to breathe sand and dust, thus causing a potentially fatal lung disease.

Silicosis

It will seriously damage your health.


Soon after (2010) July, the health of sandblasting workers in Turkey was severely censorship. Shortly after the incident, Levi s and H&M announced the first global ban on sandblasting on all products in the future.


Since then, many well-known brands and retailers such as Bestseller, C&A, Carrefour and Esprit have also indicated that this sandblasting technology will no longer be adopted in its global supply chain system.


ITGLWF Secretary General Patrick Itschert said that in the absence of government related regulations and regulations, the only way out for the whole garment industry is to ban sandblasting.

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