The Environmental Data Exchange for Apparel and Footwear

It's a free network where brands, factories, and material suppliers exchange environmental data. Instead of answering the same request from every brand in a slightly different format, suppliers submit their data once and share it with everyone they work with.

Carbonfact is the platform that 300+ apparel and footwear brands use for LCAs, carbon accounting, and eco-design. The Suppliers Network is where a lot of that primary data comes from, and it's open to everyone, not just Carbonfact customers.

There are two sides to it. Factories use it to share energy data with the brands they supply, and material suppliers use it to list their materials and processes so that brands sourcing lower-impact options can find them and request their LCA data.

They send a request, and the supplier decides whether to approve it. Nothing gets shared until they do.

Nothing at all, whether you're a brand, a factory, or a material supplier.

No, anyone can join. If you are a customer, though, shared data flows straight into your LCAs and carbon accounting, and you can use it in eco-design simulations.

Mainly less duplicate reporting, plus discovery. You submit your data once and share it with all your brand customers, you control who has access, and you can revoke it whenever you want. Material suppliers also get inbound requests from brands that are actively sourcing.