Viscose makers face new Canopy scores

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Canopy’s revised Hot Button criteria will hand an automatic red rating to viscose and lyocell producers with unresolved forest risk, and give more weight to scaling next generation textile fibres 

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Any producer whose audit finds known, unresolved risk of sourcing from ancient and endangered forests will be rated red.

VANCOUVER – Canopy has overhauled the scoring system behind its Hot Button Report giving more weight to ‘Next Gen’ fibre production and automatically assigning red ratings to viscose producers with unresolved high-risk forest sourcing.

Canopy said all 28 rated producers and selected brand partners were consulted. It also carried out a legal review to align the framework with international legislation.

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