The fashion industry is the second major pollution source in the world, next to the oil industry

According to a report by McKinsey, a business consultant, it indicates that more than 10 billion clothes are consumed worldwide every year. There is about 920 million tons of waste in refuse landfills that come from the fashion and textile industry. Moreover, according to a report in 2017, it was discovered that about 35% of the micro plastic pollutants are discharged when washing synthetic textile products. Most of them are the outputs of quick fashion.

According to the data of GREEN PLACE, the textile products discarded by Hong Kong residents every minute equal to one thousand T-shirts.

It requires land and water and plenty of materials such as chemical dyes, paints, etc. to produce clothes. It may be toxic along the entire production chain. When washing clothes, plastic fibers will flow into rivers and oceans with the discharged water. It will also discharge massive carbon dioxide when producing them. If the mass-produced clothes cannot be sold out, it will cause another major problem. It requires high price to bury these clothes, and it also needs to use the precious land to bury them.

Since from above situations, UKL join BCI Cotton Organization from 2018. We are BCI cotton member. We also be a member of GRS organization from 2021. We focus on substantiable yarn and material during our development stage. When developing new products, we insist on using environmental-friendly and recyclable materials (such as GRS yarn). Regarding dyes, our supply chain holds certificates that comply with the OEKO-TEX Standard 100 of EU.

UKL was established in 1988 in Taipei, Taiwan, specializing in the export of sweaters and knitted garments. With more than 30 years of experience, in Taiwan, we have won high acclaim from the customers. More importantly, we are a company that regards sustainability as one of our major goals.

Our production bases are in China (Shandong, Dongguan, and Hunan) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam), with more than 30 cut and sewn production lines and the manufacturing capacity of 500 computerized sweater knitting machines.

Our factories passed COSTCO GMP factory inspection and certified by WRAP, WALMART and BSCI.

Our competitive advantages: we use high-tech R&D capacity and manufacture at production bases in a choice of countries. Prompt in handling orders. Our supply chains endeavor to perform the best from yarns to finished products. We offer reasonable prices.