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CHAPTER 3 | Material becomes creation
Ratti requests all suppliers of chemical products and dyes to:
• Sign a declaration of compliance with the REACH regulation, in accordance with
the most up-to-date list of substances, with regard to the properties of chemical products, dyes, articles and manufacturing processes.
REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemical substances) is an EU regulation covering numerous chemical substances, with the aimofprovidinginformationregardingthe hazardous properties of products, the risks connected with exposure and the safety measures that need to be applied. According to this regulation, in order
to produce, import or market chemical substances, producers and importers
are obliged to gather information on the properties of the substances, so they can be managed safely.
This information should be forwarded to
the ECHA (European Chemicals Agency).
• Compliance with the Manufacturing Restricted Substance List (MRSL) of the Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC), the international programme to eliminate harmful chemical substances.
In order to be considered as qualified suppliers of customers who have signed up to the programme, organisations must showthattheycomplywiththeZDHC.
The type of substances which, according to the ZDHC may not be introduced into the production cycle and for which specific limits have therefore been set, are placed on the Manufacturing Restricted Substance List.
In becoming a ZDHC contributor, Ratti has invited its suppliers to register in the gateway dedicated to its chemical products and dyes, so that it can obtain, during 2020, an inventory (In Check
Inventory Report) in order to check that compliance of chemical products and dyes is as complete as possible. The request to implement the ZDHC programme was also extended to all suppliers of articles and manufacturing processes in order to work with Ratti towards the gradual elimination of the intentional use of the substances included on ZDHC’s MRSL list.
►• CompliancewithTechnicalDatasheet no.24 of the Seri.co certification, whose objective is to “safeguard health in textiles” and which defines the ecotoxicological specifications of products, formulates and dyes. For the Ratti Group, compliance with this Technical Datasheet will be required for all raw materials purchased and will require high standards to be maintained in product formulation.
The only case of supply relationships with suppliers in a country at risk is that of a Pakistani company, whose compliance with SA8000 standards has been assessed.
Spa has found it necessary to limit procurement from Bangladesh, Iran, Kenya, Guatemala, Honduras, the Philippines , Venezuela, Laos, Bolivia, Vietnam and Pakistan.
Ratti has therefore limited its
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risks are adequately dealt with by suppliers, contractors, or private employment agencies and sub-suppliers, and that subsequent action is taken with the appropriate priority.
• Take action to monitor and track the performance of suppliers, contractors or employment agencies and sub-suppliers, with the aim of ensuring that their significant risks are effectively dealt withe.
To ensure the above, the Group follows specific procedures which govern the initial choice of suppliers and regularly assess whether said suppliers are complying with the standard SA8000.
With regard to procurement from countries considered to be critical in that they lack regulations and laws
that safeguard workers, even against child labour, Ratti
accountability, there are provisions for a further assessment with regard to compliance and a further assessment of service and quality performance.
For Ratti, a factor of crucial importance, which is expressed in the considerable investments made in order to strengthen analysis and the internal laboratory, is chemical compliance (see box Ratti requests all suppliers of chemical products and dyes to).
At 31 December 2019, Ratti SpA had 1,331 suppliers; of these 84.52% are from Italy, 8.87% from other European countries, 5.71% from Asia, 0.68% from North America and 0.08% from Africa.
To confirm the social-historical characteristics and Ratti’s strong link with the local area, it is worth underlining that 80.65% of the value of purchases made by Ratti SpA are from Italian suppliers, an increase on 2018 (75.24%). Of these, in particular, 69.35% were made from suppliers based in the provinces of Lombardy.
procurement activities in such countries: the only case of supply relationships with
suppliers in a country at risk is that of a Pakistani company, whose compliance with SA8000 standards has been assessed.
In addition, for suppliers considered to be strategic and/or critical in terms of social and/or environmental