Environmental Tick of Approval

D’Jalma Puppo and Margarita Cortabarria An increasing number of textile manufacturers around the world are embracing the need for environmental certification. But as wool growers in main wool growing countries have been slow to acknowledge and take up this certification at the farm level, obtaining RWS certified greasy wool can be a challenge.

Uruguayan wool growers have always been known to grow their sheep in the most natural and clean environment. Estancias Puppo SA, has recently been awarded RWS and GOTS certification for the wools they trade.

Estancias Puppo exports over 2 million kg clean every year. The biggest customers are topmakers in China that take over 53%, and European mills take the balance.

The company offers wool from 17-27 microns, very low VM (under 0.3%), with an average dry yield of 77%, and no colored dark fiber or contaminants. ‘The COVID-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on all business and this is particularly the case for textile manufacturers. So, if you are a manufacturer looking for a supplier of RWS certified wool you will now have an additional point of supply here in Uruguay’, says D’jalma Puppo of Estancias Puppo SA.

‘We have been supplying leading topmakers in China and Europe for many years and are very familiar with their requirements. And RWS and GOTS certification is now a further benefit for our customers’, says D’jalma Puppo.

‘This environmental wool accreditation is a great achievement for us’, says D’jalmo Puppo. ‘Spinners and weavers around the world are increasingly demanding this type of certification and certainty, and can pass it along the supply chain all the way to retail’.

‘Our customers appreciate that the wool they receive comes directly from farms located in the best growing wool regions of Uruguay. We control the quality of the wool to ensure that no contamination or dark fibre is present in packed orders. The result is an excellent wool selection’.

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