Detectable viscose can help authenticate organic cotton, Kelheim says
01/08/2019
According to the Bavarian company, this product will be of significant help to, ironically, producers and buyers not of viscose but of organic cotton. Rapidly increasing demand, with simultaneously declining production volumes, are leaving trade in organic cotton open to fraud and counterfeiting, Kelheim said in the build-up to the Dornbirn event. In addition, it pointed out that other high-quality textiles are forged “on a grand scale”.
Kelheim’s detectable viscose fibres can serve as “marker fibres”, the company said, thanks to special pigments that are permanently incorporated in the fibre structure. These marker fibres are added before yarn manufacturing and “guarantee clear identification and traceability throughout the whole textile supply chain to the end product”. Validation using a scanner only takes a second and does not cause any damage to the product.
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