# Dyeing & Finishing — Govardhan Overseas

> Yarn dyeing and fabric finishing handled through certified subcontracted facilities under our GOTS, OCS, and GRS scope. Full chain-of-custody. Audited annually as part of our certification.

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# Dyeing
& finishing,
*under our scope.*

Two stages of our value chain are handled outside our own walls — yarn dyeing and fabric finishing. This is the standard model for specialised woven cloth in India, and we have deliberately kept it that way. What matters is that every facility we work with is certified under our scope, audited annually, and operates under the same chain-of-custody discipline as our own plant.

## How the subcontracting works

Yarn dyeing and fabric finishing happen at certified partner facilities under our scope. Four things keep that arrangement disciplined:

- **Long-term partnerships.** The facilities we work with are decade-plus partners. We don't bid finishing out season by season. Long relationships are how you get consistent shade, consistent hand, consistent reliability.
- **Scope certification.** Every facility that handles our material is included in the Control Union scope certificate that covers our GOTS / OCS / GRS claims. They are audited annually as an extension of our own audit. Their certification is part of ours, not separate from it.
- **Chain of custody.** Every lot leaves our plant with a job challan and returns with a matching return document. Lot numbers stay consistent from yarn receipt all the way through to finished fabric dispatch. GOTS chain-of-custody is preserved.
- **In-house QC, both sides.** Greige fabric is inspected before it leaves us. Finished fabric is re-inspected when it returns. Defects attributable to weaving are at our cost; defects attributable to finishing are at the finisher's cost. The split is enforced through our own inspection records.

## Yarn dyeing

Greige yarn that needs to be coloured for yarn-dyed constructions (stripes, checks, dyed solids) is sent out to certified yarn dyeing facilities under our scope. Typical turnaround is around two weeks depending on the shade and quantity. The yarn returns with a job challan, is re-inspected for shade against the approved swatch, and stocked alongside our greige yarn inventory until it's allocated to a production programme.

Shades are matched against either an approved colour standard from the customer or our own library of standard shades. For new colours, lab dips and bulk approvals run through our sampling team before any production yarn is committed.

## Fabric finishing

Greige fabric coming off our looms is finished through certified subcontracted facilities under our scope. Finishing covers a wide range of processes depending on the construction and end use:

- **Desize, scour, bleach** — preparation steps that strip out warp size and natural waxes
- **Dyeing** — piece-dyeing for solids that aren't yarn-dyed
- **Mercerising** — for cotton and cotton-blend fabrics, improves lustre and dye uptake
- **Calendering** — pressure and heat finishing for hand and surface character
- **Softening** — chemical or mechanical for the final hand
- **Stentering** — width and dimensional stability
- **Specialty finishes** — stain repellent, antimicrobial, fire retardant, etc., available on request and on the right substrate

## Quality process

- **Greige inspection** before fabric leaves our plant. Defects are flagged and piece-wise records kept.
- **Job challan** accompanies every lot sent to a finisher, including the lot number, roll count, weight, and finishing specification.
- **Finisher processes** the fabric per our specification.
- **Return challan** matches the outbound job challan when finished fabric comes back.
- **Final inspection** on our in-house inspection line catches any defects introduced during finishing.
- **Dispatch** to the customer with full lot traceability.

## For buyers needing extra scrutiny

If your compliance team needs to visit or audit any of the certified facilities in our scope chain directly, we will arrange it under NDA. Nothing in our supply chain is off-limits to a legitimate buyer audit — we just don't broadcast our supplier list publicly because those relationships are part of our competitive position.

[Contact us to arrange a supply-chain audit →](https://govardhan.net/contact?type=audit)