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Evolution of the fashion marketplace
As the global economic landscape changes, so do technologies and consumer preferences. We have state-of-the-art laboratories located around the world for your convenience, so you can test for quality, fit and durability criteria based on consumer expectations. Our robust software can help you collect data, provide insights and maintain stringent quality controls across your entire supply chain and product portfolio.
Key market drivers for stakeholders of the textile, apparel and footwear industries include:
- Global market access – Staying current with rapidly transforming regulations and requirements is difficult when trying to shorten the time to market. It’s important to consider safety, quality and compliance early in product development.
- Sustainability – The fashion industry generates 92 million tons of textile waste annually and accounts for about 10% of global carbon emissions. Footwear and garment production together contribute 8% of greenhouse gases. As a result, sustainability has become a core business priority, tied closely to environmental stewardship and social responsibility across the global value chain.1,2
- Sourcing challenges – Brands and retailers understand the importance of emerging markets for sourcing, such as Bangladesh, India, Turkey and many Southeast Asian and African countries. Expanding to new geographies presents exciting opportunities for growth, and navigating supply chain management can be a rewarding challenge.
These key influences can result in advantageous developments. UL Solutions can help you establish a comprehensive strategy and holistic approach to bundling compliance, quality and sustainability throughout your supply chain.
References
1 Fashion Waste — 2025 Facts & Statistics — Waste Managed
2 17 Most Worrying Textile Waste Statistics & Facts [2025] — TheRoundup
Simplify global market access with a testing partner
Textile, apparel and footwear testing
UL Solutions’ global network of accredited laboratories offers a full range of physical, color fastness, chemical, fiber composition and flammability testing to evaluate your articles’ compliance with international legislation and brand requirements.
Children’s apparel and footwear testing
Recognized for our extensive expertise in testing of children’s products, UL Solutions experts worldwide can also help you bring products intended for children — the most vulnerable end users — to world markets.
Reduce product defects while managing your global supply chain
Third-party inspections are a key part of a global quality assurance (QA) program to help assess whether your products meet certain specifications prior to release and shipment.
Building a customized inspection programs can help you minimize the risk of shipping substandard products and optimize your global supply chain.
Potential benefits include:
- Improving time to market
- Demonstrating the quality of your hardline and softline products
- Preventing defective products from reaching your customers
- Avoiding loss of products and revenues, delayed shipments, wasted materials and product recalls
We empower private labels to enhance market positioning and help mitigate safety and compliance risks so that your products stand out competitively.
UL Solutions support for luxury brands
With deep expertise in luxury brands, UL Solutions can help you deliver safer, more sustainable and higher-quality products your consumers can trust, which helps protect your valuable reputation.
UL Solutions and ADEC Innovations
We have partnered with ADEC Innovations, the technology provider behind the supply chain software as a service (SaaS) platform CleanChain, to enhance chemical management across global supply chains in alignment with the Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) initiative for apparel, footwear and accessories.
With this collaboration, the CleanChain platform seamlessly integrates into our services, offering cohesive, data-driven chemical management across the entire supply chain. This gives our customers greater visibility into their inventories and helps them streamline the management of chemicals hazardous to human health and the environment while driving continuous improvement in sustainability performance.
Services available include:
- Official ZDHC training for the value chain
- Wastewater testing and reporting
- Manufacturing Restricted Substance List (MRSL) certification
- Monthly ZDHC Performance InCheck report generation
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