Introducing Carbonfact for Suppliers: The Environmental Data Exchange Connecting Fashion Brands and Suppliers

At Carbonfact, we believe that primary environmental data is essential to accelerating decarbonization in the fashion industry. When data is structured, comparable, and easy to access, brands can make better sourcing decisions and suppliers can showcase the true impact of their innovations.

Today, we’re introducing Carbonfact for Suppliers – the industry’s first public environmental-data exchange designed to simplify how innovative suppliers and fashion brands connect and share trusted impact data.

It’s available now at suppliers.carbonfact.com, free for both brands and suppliers.

Sharing Environmental Data Is a Mess

Next-generation materials could deliver up to 39% of the emissions cuts needed for fashion to reach net-zero, yet understanding their real impact is still surprisingly hard. Across the industry, exchanging environmental data is difficult and slow.

For brands, it’s the endless spreadsheets. The copy-paste marathons. The challenge of matching an LCA with a transaction certificate, or tracking down primary energy data from yet another email thread. The annual impact report finally gets published – only to realize the entire process must be repeated next year.

For suppliers, it’s the same questions asked in different formats, the duplication of effort, and the constant pressure to protect sensitive information while responding quickly to brands. At times, it feels like you need to hire an extra team just to manage data requests.

It Doesn’t Need to Be This Painful

Carbonfact for Suppliers is a free, open platform for the entire industry, giving every brand and every supplier an easy way to connect, share trusted data, and speed up the shift to lower-impact materials and processes.

For Brands: Access Comparable Environmental Data

Any brand can use the platform to discover suppliers and request verified, comparable environmental data through the public directory instantly. Join the network as a brand here. 

Carbonfact customers can take it a step further and model these materials directly in its eco-design tools to see their impact instantly and make better sourcing choices. All LCAs on Carbonfact for Suppliers are verified by Carbonfact’s in-house science team.

Femme van Gils, Head of Sustainability Samsøe Samsøe says: “We’re always looking for next-gen materials, and Carbonfact for Suppliers makes the review of these materials far more efficient. The fact that the data is verified and comparable means we can evaluate options fairly and accelerate our ability to scale lower-impact materials”.

For Suppliers: Get Discovered and Manage Access 

The new Carbonfact Suppliers platform gives suppliers a free public profile where they can host LCAs with full control over who can access them. 

More than 20 leading material innovators like Circulose®, Manteco®, and Recover™ have already created their profiles and uploaded their LCA data. New suppliers can request to join, submit their LCAs for free verification, or commission a new LCA from Carbonfact’s science team if needed.

"Carbonfact’s new supplier platform finally gives us a secure and credible way to share our LCA data with brands. We stay fully in control of what we share and with whom – while becoming visible in the exact workflows where brands evaluate materials," Dr. Giuseppe Picerno, Head of Innovation & Sustainability at Manteco®.