Level: Advanced
Location on Academy: Chemical Management System Courses
Training Audience: Textile and Leather Processors (Refer to Training Audience below)
Methodology: Delivered by Approved Training Providers (Mode varies depending on ATP - In person, hybrid, webinar / live sessions, or e-Learning)
Course Fee: Varies depending on the ATP (certificate fee = 35 euros)
Exam: Yes
Certificate: Yes
Learners should have one of the following:
- Chemical Management Fundamentals course certificate
- Chemical Management Fundamentals Exam only certificate
- Valid certificate of any one of the following courses:
- ZDHC CMS TIG Training
- ZDHC CMS TIG Refresher Training
- ZDHC Top 10 Best practices
If none of the above is met, learners will not be accepted into the course.
Supplier Group B: Textile & Leather Processors
Applicable for Course: Chemical Management for Textile and Leather Processors
Supplier facilities that manufacture materials which are used further in finished products/ end- articles and have chemical intensive wet processes in their manufacturing facilities:
Processing (dyeing/printing/finishing) of textile materials that are used as accessories or trims in garments. Example: Sewing thread, narrow/zip fabric, buttons made of fabric, lining, interlining, lace, braids, labels
Metal parts (pins, clips, tag pins, metals used in zippers, rivets, iron seals) or paper and plastic parts (tissue paper, paper band, plastic hangers, polybags, gum tape, backboard, neck board, inner carton, hanger) are excluded from the scope.
Cleaning, washing, softening, or applying specific functional finishes to garments made from textiles to enhance their appearance, texture or functional properties. (such as T-shirts, dresses, bottomwear, jeans)
Dyeing/ Overdyeing and/ or printing, softening, finishing, washing of garments made from textiles (such as T-shirts, dresses, bottomwear, jeans)
Processing of fibres, yarns and/or fabrics that involves desizing, bleaching, scouring, optical whitening, mercerising, caustising, dyeing, printing, digital printing, washing, finishing, coating, laminating
Exclusive processing that involves only pigment printing, panel (ink) printing or transfer printing of textile or leather materials
Manufacturing units that apply polymeric coatings or laminates to synthetic textile or leather substrates to enhance their functional properties. These coatings, including Polyurethane (PU), Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), and other specialised polymers, are used in the production of synthetic coated fabric for footwear, upholstery materials, water-repellent textiles, flame-retardant materials, and other industrial and consumer applications.
Spinning, knitting, weaving of textile material and processing that involves desizing, bleaching, scouring, optical whitening, mercerising, caustising, dyeing, printing, digital printing, washing, finishing, coating, laminating and/or garment processing/assembling
Application of size to textile materials only
Washing and finishing of feathers and down obtained from different sources like ducks or geese for manufacturing products such as bedding, pillows, comforters, and jackets
Processing of pre-tanned hides or skins through post-tanning and finishing operations to produce fully finished leather
Processing of semi-finished crust leather which includes finishing processes to produce finished leather
Processing of tanned hides or skins through post-tanning operations to produce crust leather
Processing of raw hides or skins up to the pre-tanning stage, producing pickled or pre-tanned materials to prepare the hides for tanning
Processing of raw hides or skins through tanning and post-tanning stages to produce crust leather
Completion of the full leather production process from raw hides or skins to finished leather which includes tanning, post-tanning, and finishing
Processing of raw hides or skins up to the pre-tanning stage, producing pickled or pre-tanned materials to prepare the hides for tanning.