Compliance
Empire Five is a certified sportswear manufacturer: ISO 9001:2015, OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 and WRAP certified, amfori BSCI audited, and registered with the FBR and the SCCI. Below is what each one covers, what it does not, and how to check it. Ask for certificate copies with your quote.
Empire Five AthleticsTrade-only teamwear factory · Pakistan
ISO 9001:2015 is the international standard for quality management systems. It covers how the factory runs: written procedures from order intake to final inspection, records you can trace, and corrective action when something goes wrong. It certifies the system, not a single garment, so read it together with the inspection result for your order.
OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 is a product label. Textiles are tested by an independent OEKO-TEX institute against a list of harmful substances. A certificate covers only the articles and materials named in its scope, so ask which fabrics and trims in your order fall under it. Our certificate number is not published here yet.
WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production) certifies a production facility against its 12 principles, which cover areas such as working hours, wages, health and safety and the environment. Certification follows an on-site audit of the facility by an accredited monitoring firm.
amfori BSCI is a social compliance audit, not a certificate. An approved auditor checks the factory against the amfori BSCI Code of Conduct, which covers areas such as fair pay, working hours, health and safety and child labor, and issues a rated audit report. Ask for the audit details with your quote.
The Federal Board of Revenue is the tax authority of Pakistan. Our registration means we invoice and export as a registered business under our own tax number.
We are a member of the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce & Industry, the trade body for the exporters of the city, including its sportswear and sports goods makers. The certificate of origin for your shipment is issued through the chamber.
If you sell into retail, corporate programs or school and league contracts, your own customers may ask where the garments are made and under what conditions before they buy. Factory certificates give you that paperwork without commissioning an audit of your own. ISO 9001:2015 speaks to how quality is managed, WRAP and the amfori BSCI audit to working conditions on our floor, and OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 to harmful substances in the textiles it covers.
One limit to keep in mind: certificates describe the factory and the materials in their scope, not a specific order. For proof on your own goods, use our final AQL 2.5 inspection, described under garment inspection and quality control, or send your own inspector.
Ask for copies with your quote and we send them with it. Where the issuing body runs a public register, the card above links to it: IAF CertSearch for ISO 9001, Label Check for OEKO-TEX and the WRAP facility search. Check the factory name and address on any copy against what you find there.
The OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 certificate number is still to be added to this page. Until it is, ask for it with your quote and look it up on Label Check yourself.
You are welcome to send your own auditor or the third-party inspector you already use before or during production. We can also ship pre-production samples to the lab you choose.
Certificates sit alongside the labeling rules of the market you sell into: fiber content, care symbols, country of origin and size marking. We cover those market by market on our page on apparel compliance by market. For the people and the factory behind these certificates, read about our work as a sportswear manufacturer in Sialkot.
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