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Kitex Garments Limited

Responsibleby design.

Wet processing is water and energy intensive by nature. That is precisely why it is where the reductions have to come from, and the figures below are the ones published in the 2024-25 annual report.
Paddy fields under cultivation around Kizhakkambalam

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Reduction in water consumption

Achieved through recovery and reuse across the dyeing and processing line.

Annual Report 2024-25

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Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

Attributed to heat recovery systems, energy efficient machinery and a rising share of renewable energy.

Annual Report 2024-25

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Of revenue spent on employee wellbeing

Cost incurred on wellbeing measures as a share of total revenue.

BRSR, Annual Report 2024-25

An effluent treatment plant clarifier tank

Water

The heaviest input in wet processing, treated as such.

Effluent treatment and sewage treatment plants support water management across the process house, with continuous monitoring rather than periodic sampling. Water consumption has fallen by 32.5 percent.

A boiler and heat recovery plant room

Energy and emissions

Cleaner technology ahead of offsetting.

Heat recovery systems and energy efficient machinery have reduced both fuel and electricity requirements, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent. Renewable generation is being increased within operations.

Waterway and paddy in the landscape around the Kizhakkambalam site

Waste

Segregated at source, disposed through authorised routes.

Waste is separated into biodegradable and non biodegradable streams and routed to authorised vendors, with monitoring to confirm compliance rather than to assume it.

A swatch of undyed ecru organic cotton single jersey

Materials

Certified organic cotton, kept traceable.

Organic and conventional cotton run through the same integrated line under segregation, so certified organic output remains traceable from yarn intake to packed carton.

Reported, not asserted.

Environmental and social performance is disclosed in the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report within the annual report, which is the document a reader should hold this page against.