STONY BROOK N.Y., March 20, 2018 – Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (“Applied DNA,” “the Company,” NASDAQ: APDN) today announced its CertainT® platform, ensuring authenticity through the entire supply chain, is featured in global manufacturer of home textiles GHCL, Limited’s (listed on NSE and BSE) new brand of bedding products made from recycled plastic (rPET), Rekoop. It is the first bedding line to feature 100 percent source verified plastic and will debut at New York Home Fashions Week, March 19 to 22, 2018. The Rekoop bedding products will be manufactured for the US market and are anticipated toward the end of 2018.
Rekoop employs Applied DNA’s CertainT platform to trace and authenticate the plastic being utilized in the line of bed sheets, pillowcases, and shams sold in-store or online in the United States. Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), India’s largest private company, the selected fiber-manufacturing partner, is using ecofriendly Recon® Green Gold fiber.
“We are proud to introduce Rekoop, the first fully source-verified recycled PET bedding product line,” said Manu Kapur, president and CEO of GHCL Home Textiles. “Applied DNA’s CertainT platform provides customers and brands with the highest level of trust in terms of the authenticity of their products.”
“Rekoop bedding highlights the interest brands have in offering consumers a verifiable guarantee,” said Dr. James A. Hayward, president and CEO of Applied DNA. “CertainT does what no other system can do – we can tag every single fiber and verify them through a defined and secure supply chain through systematic sampling, testing and tracking. Momentum with retailers and manufacturers across a variety of textiles is growing and we are pleased to see the CertainT platform and trademark now making its way onto retail shelves this year,” he added.
Operating its home textiles facility in Vapi, in the state of Gujarat, India, GHCL has integrated the new CertainT verified rPET fiber into its production process, from spinning to weaving to finished processed fabric. One of the leading manufacturers in home textiles in India, the plant boasts an annual production capacity of 36 million meters of finished fabric per annum. For more information, please visit www.rekoop.pet.
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GHCL is a well-diversified group with footprints in Chemicals, Textiles and Consumer Products segment. GHCL’s Textiles division is a vertically integrated manufacturing facility with spinning, wider-width weaving, continuous fabric processing, and cut & sew facilities for manufacturing premium quality bed linen. GHCL is one of India’s leading manufacturers of Home Textiles, with in-house spinning unit having capability to manufacture multiple varieties of 100% cotton and blended yarns at various facilities.
GHCL is known as perennial innovators in bed linen category with some of recent innovations in the category of ‘sheets’ which include the PERFECT FIT, EASYSHEET, microTWILL, CELLIANT, EXL Wrinkle Free Sheets, VERSATILE–Reversible Sheets, Soft Wash Percale and Sustainable Fibre dyed sheets.
GHCL’s Home Textiles products are predominantly exported worldwide to countries like United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, Canada, Germany and other European Union countries as well.
Reliance Industries (RIL) is India’s largest private sector company, with a consolidated turnover of INR 330,180 crore ($ 50.9 billion), cash profit of INR 42,800 crore ($ 6.6 billion), and net profit of INR 29,901 crore ($ 4.6 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2017. RIL is the first private sector company from India to feature in Fortune’s Global 500 list of ‘World’s Largest Corporations’ – currently ranking 203rd in terms of revenues, and 110th in terms of profits. The company stands 106th in the ‘Forbes Global 2000’ rankings for 2017 – the top-most among Indian companies. It ranks 10th in LinkedIn’s ‘Top Companies Where India Wants to Work Now’ (2017). RIL’s activities span hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail and 4G digital services.
Applied DNA is a provider of molecular technologies that enable supply chain security, anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technology, product genotyping and DNA mass production for diagnostics and therapeutics. The Company makes life real and safe by providing innovative, molecular-based technology solutions and services that can help protect products, brands, entire supply chains, and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion.
The proprietary DNA-based CertainT® platform can be used to identify, tag, test, and track products, to help assure authenticity, origin, traceability, sustainability and quality of products. SigNature® DNA describes the core technology ingredient that is at the heart of a family of uncopyable, security and authentication solutions such as SigNature®T and fiberTyping®, targeted towards textiles and apparel, BackTrac® and DNAnet®, for anti-theft and loss prevention, and digitalDNA®, providing powerful track-and-trace. All provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.
Applied DNA Sciences is also engaged in the large-scale production of specific DNA sequences using the polymerase chain reaction.
The statements made by Applied DNA in this press release may be “forward-looking” in nature within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe Applied DNA’s future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of Applied DNA. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to our lack of significant revenues, limited financial resources, limited market acceptance, history of net losses, market competition and various other factors detailed from time to time in Applied DNA’s SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on December 28, 2017 and our subsequent quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on February 8, 2018, which are available at www.sec.gov. Applied DNA undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, unless otherwise required by law.
