PKN Group is committed to its employees in Vietnam and its clients globally to take all steps necessary to ensure a safe and responsible environment for its workers and the natural world around us.
Compliance of both product and social values is incorporated into our ethos. We also have state of the art laboratory equipment in PKN lab for the physical assurances needed to create durable product that will withstand teh elements ( or the simply the daily walk home).
On a personal note, Our founder and director is a keen botanist and specialises in the flora and fauna of his home country Vietnam. Each facility in the group has a garden put together by our team under his guidance. If you have natural beauty in your country, he would love to visit!
WRAP
Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA with offices in Hong Kong and Bangladesh and full-time staff in India and Southeast Asia, Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) is an independent, objective, non-profit team of global social compliance experts dedicated to promoting safe, lawful, humane and ethical manufacturing around the world through certification and education.
Our primary activity is our Certification Program, which is the largest independent facility certification program in the world mainly focused on the apparel, footwear, and sewn products sectors. We issue three levels of certification that are valid from six months to two years based on a facility’s compliance with WRAP’s 12 Principles. These principles are based on the rule of law within each individual country and include the spirit or language of the relevant conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Today, WRAP has grown to become a global leader in social compliance and a trusted independent supply chain partner for dozens of companies around the world.
BETTER WORK
As a partnership between the UN’s International Labour Organization and the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, Better Work brings diverse groups together – governments, global brands, factory owners, and unions and workers – to improve working conditions in the garment industry and make the sector more competitive.
Our approach creates lasting, positive change through assessments, training, advocacy and research that changes policies, attitudes, as well as behaviour. By sharing our approach and the results of our on-the-ground work, we seek to influence policy makers and decision makers to promote decent work and better business.
To further understand the impact of its work, Better Work commissioned Tufts University to conduct an independent impact assessment. Tufts’ interdisciplinary research team has gathered and analysed nearly 15,000 survey responses from garment workers and 2,000 responses from factory managers in Haiti, Indonesia, Jordan, Nicaragua and Vietnam.
INTERTEK
For more than 130 years, companies around the world have depended on Intertek to help ensure the quality and safety of their products, processes and systems.
We go beyond testing, inspecting and certifying products; we are a Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide. Through our global network of state-of-the-art facilities and industry-leading technical expertise we provide innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification services to customers. We provide a systemic approach to supporting our customers’ Quality Assurance efforts in each of the areas of their operations including R&D, raw materials sourcing, components suppliers, manufacturing, transportation, distribution and retail channels, and consumer management.
Intertek is an industry leader with more than 42,000 employees in 1,000 locations in over 100 countries. We deliver Quality Assurance expertise 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with our industry-winning processes and customer-centric culture. Whether your business is local or global, we can help to ensure that your products meet quality, health, environmental, safety, and social accountability standards for virtually any market around the world. We hold extensive global accreditations, recognitions, and agreements, and our knowledge of and expertise in overcoming regulatory, market, and supply chain hurdles is unrivaled.
SATRA
Knowledge, research and testing are SATRA’s three pillars of strength. They haveSATRA is an independent research and testing organisation established in the UK in 1919. It has technical facilities in Europe and China serving customers throughout the world. As well as testing products and components to European and international standards across a wide range of industry sectors, SATRA develops, manufactures and sells test equipment.
SATRA is a Notified Body for various European directives including personal protection equipment (PPE), which is one of SATRA’s largest sector operations. SATRA has its own chemicals analysis laboratory for testing restricted substances in accordance with European REACH, and US chemicals regulations for which it is CPSC-accredited.
SATRA is considered a leading technical authority for footwear and leather. Companies from these industries can become members of SATRA to gain exclusive access to SATRA test methods, accreditation, consultancy, research facilities, technical training and factory production management systems. A number of SATRA systems are recognised in the supply chain as setting industry standards for quality and production efficiency.
BUREAU VERITAS
A group dedicated to helping industrial clients manage their critical assets, equipment and infrastructure.
Keeping structures, buildings, industrial and commercial facilities safe, reliable and in the best operating condition. In a world where industrial operations are increasingly complex and globalised, and companies face ever-greater scrutiny, Bureau Veritas helps clients control their risks. We ensure that assets are safe and conform to national and international standards and voluntary QHSE policies.