What is Higg-Index?
What is Higg FEM?
The Higg FEM is designed to:
- Measure and quantify the sustainability impacts of a facility
- Reduce redundancy in measuring and reporting sustainability performance
- Drive business value through reducing risk and uncovering efficiencies
- Create a common means and language to communicate sustainability to stakeholders
What are the benefits of Higg?
- Higg index practice helps a factory to identify a range of sustainability opportunities and risks in the facility through the supply chain.
- To learn adequately about the future sustainability impacts and evaluate the performance
- By using this standard tool future sustainable strategy and leadership establishment can be developed for long term goals.
- It also helps to avoid the waste of time and cost and proper utilize of time.
What to know before you get started?
- Facilities should be honest and transparent when completing assessment.
- The Higg FEM is not a pass/fail assessment, rather a tool that identifies opportunities to improve and it’s not an audit.
Benefits of working with GCL:
- Network of Overseas Strategic Partners about 50 countries.
- SAC approved world recognized Verifier & Trainer
- Recognized all over the world
- Web Discussion Group
- Fixed price for all and Competitive Quotations
Companies in ginning, spinning, weaving and knitting, dyeing and printing, and cut and sew are eligible for certification.
Certification Features
- Recycled Polymer Materials - Contains a minimum of 20% recycled content
- Ethical - Avoids questionable or unethical sources
- Labor Protections - Ensures that workers are treated fairly according to internationally recognized (ILO) labor standards
- Supply Chain Management - Introduces supply chain risk management tools to improve sourcing strategies and prevent destructive environmental practices
- Environmental Impact Assessment - examines the environmental impacts associated with product manufacturing
- Chain of Custody – Transaction certificates follow the material through the supply chain
Certification with GCL benefits you, your customers, and other stakeholders, by demonstrating:
- Alignment of definitions across multiple applications.
- Tracking and tracing Recycled input materials.
- Providing customers (both brands and consumers) with a tool to make informed decisions.
- Reducing harmful impact of production to people and the environment.
- Providing assurance that materials in the final product are actually Recycled and processed more sustainably.
- Driving innovation in addressing quality issues in the use of Recycled materials.