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Eco Vira

How we make it

We hold ourselves to the standard we sell.

Sustainability in apparel is measured on the factory floor, not in a brochure. It would be difficult to promise responsible manufacturing while cutting corners in our own plant, so this page sets out exactly how Eco Vira sources fibre, reduces waste, saves energy and water, and treats the people who make the garments — together with the documents that back each claim.

  • GOTS

    Responsible sourcing & eco-friendly materials

    Organic cotton, modal and bamboo are bought only through audited, certified mills, and every shipment arrives with a transaction certificate that ties the fibre back to its origin. We hold the chain-of-custody file with the order, so when a retailer or an auditor asks where the cotton came from, the answer is a document rather than an assurance. Low-impact reactive and OEKO-TEX compliant dyestuffs are specified as the default route for organic programmes.

  • GRS

    Recycled fabrics & closed-loop inputs

    Recycled polyester spun from post-consumer PET and recycled cotton blends are certified to the Global Recycled Standard, with recycled percentage verified at each processing step instead of asserted on a swing tag. Offcuts from our own cutting floor are baled and returned into shoddy yarn and wiper streams rather than landfilled, and packaging moves to recycled LDPE, bio-based film and FSC board wherever the destination market allows.

  • 94%

    Waste reduction & fabric utilisation

    CAD marker nesting, lay planning and single-ply cutting hold fabric yield above 90% on standard knit programmes — the single largest lever any garment manufacturer has over both cost per unit and material waste. Digital sampling and 3D fit review cut the number of physical protos before approval, and remaining end-of-roll cloth is redirected into pocketing, test sews and accessory production instead of being written off.

  • BSCI

    Ethical manufacturing & fair working conditions

    Our Lahore facility is audited under amfori BSCI, covering working hours, freedom of association, health and safety, grievance channels and verified age of employment. Wages are paid on time through banked payroll, overtime is voluntary and recorded, and the compliance record travels with the goods. Sustainability that ignores the people cutting and sewing the garment is not sustainability, and buyers are entitled to see the file.

Position

We do not make claims we cannot document.

A sustainable garment is only as credible as the file behind it. Responsible sourcing means we buy certified organic and recycled fibre through audited mills, specify OEKO-TEX compliant low-impact dyestuffs as the default route, and keep the chain-of-custody paperwork with the order — so the claim printed on the label is backed by a transaction certificate an auditor can actually read, not a supplier’s verbal assurance.

Waste reduction starts at the cutting table. Fabric utilisation sits above 90% because CAD marker nesting, disciplined lay planning and single-ply cutting are how we run every day, not a one-off saving for a case study. That cuts your cost per unit and the volume of off-cut leaving the floor at the same time; what remains is baled for recycling into shoddy yarn and wiper stock, or redirected into pocketing and test sews rather than sent to landfill. Digital sampling and 3D fit review remove physical prototypes from the development cycle before a single metre is cut.

Energy saving and water conservation are engineering problems, so we treat them that way. Rooftop solar carries a growing share of daytime load, LED lighting is installed across every production hall, and servo-motor sewing machines have replaced clutch motors line by line to eliminate idle draw. On the wet side we specify low-liquor-ratio dyeing, recover rinse and cooling water where garment quality allows, and favour dope-dyed and garment-dye routes that remove whole wash cycles from the process instead of merely optimising them. Recycled fabrics — GRS-certified rPET, recycled cotton blends and recycled LDPE packaging film — are offered as a standing alternative on every quotation, not as a premium upgrade.

Ethical manufacturing matters as much as materials. Our Lahore facility is amfori BSCI audited across working hours, health and safety, freedom of association, grievance handling and verified age of employment; wages are paid on time through banked payroll and overtime is voluntary and recorded. The compliance record travels with the goods, and buyers or their auditors are welcome on the floor unannounced — because a responsible claim has to cover the people who made the garment, not only the fibre it was made from.

Certification

Independently verified.

  • GOTS

    Global Organic Textile Standard — organic fibre content and processing, verified by transaction certificate on every shipment

  • GRS

    Global Recycled Standard — recycled content tracked and verified at each processing stage, not self-declared

  • OEKO-TEX

    Standard 100 — tested for harmful substances against limits set for skin-contact and infant apparel

  • amfori BSCI

    Independent social compliance audit of working hours, safety, wages and freedom of association