Our factories

Chinese factory partners

Since launching, the founders of Slyletica and our production team have travelled extensively across Asia in search of innovation within the activewear and athleisure space, ultimately finding China to be ahead of its time. We carefully selected family-run factories that align with our values and uphold strong ethical standards. Each factory undergoes a rigorous onboarding process, and we maintain close relationships with both managers and workers.

All of our Chinese factories are BSCI-certified, ensuring they meet international standards for fair, responsible, and humane working conditions. While we’re often asked for quicker turnarounds or lower costs, we routinely decline in order to maintain these standards.

This allows us to ensure our factory partners provide fair pay, reasonable working hours, safe and healthy workplaces, and protection of workers’ rights, while also preventing discrimination, forced labour and child labour throughout the supply chain. Several of our China-based factories meet leading international textile standards, including OEKO-TEX®, which ensures environmentally friendly and socially responsible production; GOTS, the global benchmark for processing organic fibres; GRS, which verifies responsible social, environmental and chemical practices in recycled content; and WRAP, a recognised certification for ethical and socially responsible manufacturing.

Our factories can also work with Sedex to improve social and environmental performance, and with BLUESIGN, which traces each textile’s journey to minimise environmental impact. Many of our partners go further, implementing eco-conscious practices such as fabric dyeing every second day to cut emissions, using solar power, energy-efficient air dyeing, and closed-loop systems to conserve water.

Indian factory partner

Our factory partner in India follows eco-friendly production processes and only works with raw material suppliers who are Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) & OEKO-TEX® certified (meaning free from harmful chemicals).

The factory uses fair trade certified organic cotton and bamboo, colours certified free from azo and heavy metals, and oxygen bleach instead of chlorine bleach, plus follows organic dyeing and printing standards.

They are solar plant energy efficient, manage production processes to conserve water and treat waste water to ensure it’s pollution free. The company also has strict social justice laws in place for its factory and suppliers, and steadfastly adheres to regulations regarding child labour and minimum wages.

European factory partner

Our European factory partner is the most efficient and flexible textile plant in the world.

Their sustainable practices include the design and development of fabrics made with natural dye techniques using less resources, organic textiles and recycled fibres, highly efficient, high-tech production designed to international standards, and an in-house operation with total quality management.

Their environmental efforts involve the use of efficient compressed airlines throughout the factory, solar-powered electric panels covering 50 percent of the energy demand, the highest COP VRF systems for maximum energy efficiency, rainwater used as greywater, and decreased water consumption through the use of tap and toilet
water sensors.

Taiwanese
factory partner

Our Taiwanese factory partner has gone to great lengths in the research and development of green textiles.

They manufacture garments using sustainable materials including organic cotton, recycled polyester, coconut, charcoal and bamboo.

They’ve also been certified by many international organisations to ensure high quality green products and production processes. These include OEKO-TEX® Standard 100, which guarantees all garment components including every thread, button and accessory are free from harmful chemicals. They meet ISO-14001 standards ensuring an effective environmental management system, hold IMO certification to verify the quality assurance of eco-friendly products, plus Control Union certification indicating their devotion to eco textiles and the environment