Every credential on this page says who holds it and how you can check it. That is the point.

No, and any Bangladeshi supplier who tells you otherwise is worth checking in about sixty seconds. Leather Working Group certification audits tanneries — the facility that turns raw hide into finished leather — not the workshop that cuts and stitches a finished bag, so it is not a credential a leather-goods maker or a buying house can hold in place of its supplier in the first place. LWG's own directory listed seven certified leather manufacturers in Bangladesh on 1 October 2026, four rated Gold and three Silver, and LWG publishes that list openly, which makes this the single easiest claim in the industry to falsify and the single easiest to catch. What we do instead is tell you which tannery your hide comes from, supply its audit position as it actually stands, and route through an LWG-certified source where your programme requires one and the economics allow it.

None that we can show you with a certificate number in the name of Belle Vouz Ltd today, so this page lists none as held. WRAP certifies individual production units and amfori BSCI audits a production site, so where your order needs either we place it with a partner factory that has it, name that factory before you commit, and send its WRAP certificate number or its amfori audit date and grade. OEKO-TEX Standard 100 sits at mill level with our nominated fabric suppliers, which means the certificate is real but it is issued in the mill's name rather than ours — we pass it through with your order and we say whose it is. We do not hold GOTS. Our group company Collective Studio takes knitwear runs from 150 pieces and offers organic cotton on request; ask for the GOTS licence number of the facility making your order and check it in the GOTS public database before you rely on an organic claim. That distinction between held, nominated and not held is the whole reason this page is organised the way it is: a list that flattens every standard into one row of logos is telling you something untrue about at least some of them.

It comes down to a single piece of infrastructure. When the tanneries were relocated from Hazaribagh to the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate at Hemayetpur, the central effluent treatment plant built to serve them was never brought fully into working order, and effluent treatment is a core scored section of the LWG protocol. A tannery inside the estate therefore starts with a handicap it does not control. A gap assessment of twenty Savar tanneries, presented at a Bangladesh Tanners Association and Business Promotion Council workshop in May 2026, found only three scoring above fifty percent, with the best at fifty-one; LWG's Bronze rating starts at sixty-five. That is why six of the seven Bangladeshi sites in LWG's directory on 1 October 2026 are outside the estate, in Gazipur, Ashulia, the Dhaka EPZ, Chattogram, Jashore and Khulna. The one inside it, Pioneer Simona Tanning BD Limited, is rated Gold. The government has signalled that LWG certification will become mandatory for the sector. Whatever a supplier tells you, look the tannery up by name in LWG's directory: it shows the rating, the site address and the audit expiry date.

Yes, and the specific number to hold us to is hexavalent chromium. REACH Annex XVII entry 47 bans leather articles that touch the skin if they contain 3 mg/kg or more of Cr(VI), measured on the dry weight of the leather. In 2020 ECHA's risk committee backed a proposal to lower that to 1 mg/kg while its socio-economic committee kept 3 mg/kg, and no change has been adopted, so 3 mg/kg remains the limit in force. Cr(VI) is not something a tannery adds — it forms when trivalent chrome oxidises during poorly controlled finishing, drying or storage, which makes it a process-control problem rather than a recipe problem, and which is why it can appear in a shipment that tested clean at the tannery. We test finished articles through ISO/IEC 17025 accredited labs and supply the report against the hide going into your order specifically. Do not accept a generic certificate covering a different article from a previous season; it is not evidence about your goods.

These sit in the available-on-request column rather than the held column, which is a meaningful difference. Where an order requires SMETA — the usual ask from UK retailers, alongside BSCI for the EU — ISO 9001, ISO 14001, SA8000, Higg FEM or the Textile Exchange recycled-content standards, we route production to a partner facility that holds the relevant credential and pass the certificate through in that facility's name. What we will not do is quote you a price on the assumption that a credential will materialise later. If a standard is a hard requirement for your buyer, tell us at enquiry stage: it changes which factories can take the order, and occasionally the price.

Check the number against the issuing body's own registry rather than trusting the PDF, because a certificate image pasted into a sales deck costs nothing to fake and nothing to catch unless someone actually looks. WRAP, OEKO-TEX, GOTS, LWG and Textile Exchange all publish searchable lists that show the holder's registered name and, depending on the scheme, the scope covered and an expiry date. amfori BSCI is the exception: it is an audit rather than a certificate, and only amfori members and the audited factory can open the report, so ask for the report itself with its audit date and grade. Three things are worth checking beyond the number itself: that the holder name matches the company actually making your goods rather than a trading arm, that the scope covers the product type you are ordering, and that the certificate has not expired. The whole exercise takes about ten minutes and it removes an entire category of sourcing fraud. Ask us for the numbers — we would rather work with buyers who check.