Environmental Impact Measurement (EIM), a global standard for assessing the environmental impact of garment finishing, released its second report, “Denim Industry Progress and Insights 2025.” The report focuses on the latest EIM dataset based on standardized methodology and identifies how the denim finishing industry is making “steady progress” toward low-impact production. EIM assesses water and energy consumption, chemical impact and worker health, classifying each into low, medium or high impact according to industry benchmarks. Based on the analysis of 100,200 real denim finishing processes from 359 manufacturers, the report shows that 66 percent of processes are now classified as low impact, with strong performance in energy efficiency and stable water consumption levels. Denim processes represent 90 percent of the finishing processes report. The industry average EIM score is 34, placing most garments in the medium impact level.…