All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 136
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News briefsFirst Houdini Reuse store in downtown Stockholm
In February, the Swedish outdoor brand Houdini opened up its first “Reuse” store in downtown Stockholm. The pop-up offers secondhand Houdini clothes in a premium setting. The secondhand stock come from Houdini’s buyback system, in which customers sell back their clothes at up to €100 per item. Beyond extending the ...
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Toray offers PET-recycled version of Primeflex stretch fabrics
Toray is launching a PET-recycled iteration of its Primeflex series of flexible stretch fabric. The new version, which will be available in spring/summer 2021, is meant to meet the increasing demand by sportswear consumers for sustainability without compromising stretch. The Primeflex PET-recycled type incorporates recycled PET that would normally be ...
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Trangoworld plants trees to form climatic barrier
This month – along with the environmentally themed tour and activity portal Xmigrations, Asociación Áreas Verdes and a number of families with children – Trangoworld helped plant about 700 trees for a reforestation initiative around Cuarte de Huerva in the Spanish province of Zaragoza. The oak, juniper and terebinth varieties ...
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Montane joins Fair Wear Foundation
Montane has joined the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF), the independent multi-stakeholder organization that works with brands to improve labor conditions in garment factories. The move is part of Montane’s corporate social responsibility efforts within its new “Further Forever” initiative. As a member of the FWF, Montane has committed to a ...
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Bergfreunde commits to offsetting greenhouse gas emissions
Bergfreunde, the German outdoor retail specialist, has taken a big step towards climate neutrality. Bergfreunde is a sister company to Backcountry.com, the largest online retailer of premium outdoor sports gear and apparel in the U.S. The German online retailer recorded total sales of more than €100 million in 2019, for ...
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Hoka One One partners with "A Mile in Her Shoes"
Hoka One One, a division of Deckers Brands, has announced a partnership with A Mile in Her Shoes, a London-based charity that helps homeless women through running. The brand will offer a pair of running shoes and a donation for all the homeless women expected to benefit from the work ...
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Timberland rewards patience with new trees
According to Reuters, Timberland has since August been encouraging customers to choose four- to eight-day delivery, rather than standard three-day service. In exchange for every such exercise in patience, the outdoor brand will plant a tree. As a rule, of course, the slower the delivery, the less it costs and ...
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Teva’s new brand campaign highlights sustainability
Teva, a division of Deckers Brands, is launching “Strap In To Freedom,” a new brand campaign to celebrate its Original sandal collection and highlight its commitment to sustainability. All the straps across the brand’s 2020 collection are made of Repreve yarn, a performance fiber that itself made of recycled plastic. ...
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The North Face offers circular design training
(SGI+) The North Face (TNF) is launching the Renewed Design Residency, a new training opportunity for its designers on the principles of circular design, which they will be able to integrate into future TNF collections. The project is part of the brand’s Renewed program, launched in 2018 to enable TNF ...
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News briefsPrana’s new swimwear line is made of 100% recycled nylon
(SGI) For its current swimwear collection for spring/summer 2020, Prana, one of Columbia Sportswear’s brands, is using 100 percent recycled Econyl fiber, eliminating the use of virgin polyester or nylon made from petroleum. The fiber is made from waste such as fishing nets, fabric remnants, old carpets and industrial plastics. ...
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New Chiruca boot made entirely of recycled or sustainable materials
At the latest Ispo Munich show, on Jan. 26-29, Chiruca presented Cloe, a boot made entirely of recycled or sustainable materials. Its synthetic nubuck – which can be used for compost – consists of polyester derived partly from plastic bottles and partly from corn that is unfit for human consumption ...
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Deuter on the way to PFC freedom
Deuter introduced a 100-percent Perfluorocarbon-free (PFC) bag collection for autumn 2020. The collection includes the Up series, which is the brand’s latest line of urban lifestyle packs, as well as a new Aviant travel luggage line and an updated iteration of its Freerider Pro ski touring pack. The collection is ...
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ArticleSustainable innovations from Ispo Munich 2020
For the 50th birthday of Ispo Munich, the sports fair claimed to be more sustainable than ever before. More and more brands are looking for solutions for more sustainable products and more sustainable consumption. This time, recycling was one of the core issues of sustainable innovation. While recycled polyester from ...
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BenQ launches new membrane technology for apparel
(SGI) BenQ Materials Corporation, a Taiwanese company specializing in materials science, has launched a new nanoporous waterproof/breathable membrane technology for high-performance sports apparel which, it claims, provides both environmental sustainability and more benefits than other, more popular membranes. The key component of the new Xpore membrane is polyolefin, which belongs ...
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W. L. Gore & Associates’ textile factory in Putzbrunn, Germany, has received ISO 14001 certification for quality and environmental management
(SGI) The company’s two other factories – in Elk Mills, Maryland, and Shenzhen, China – are already certified. Gore began setting up the necessary systems in its factories in 2010. These cover the oversight of energy use, the measurement and reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions, the handling of chemicals, transparency in ...
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Rossignol Group is launching a new program of sustainability and corporate social responsibility called “Respect.”
Differentiating itself from other ski companies, the Rossignol Group is launching a new program of sustainability and corporate social responsibility called “Respect.” The program calls for, among other things, a 40 percent cut in the waste generated by Rossignol’s manufacturing by 2025 and a 30 percent cut in carbon emissions ...
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Sympatex is presenting the first upcycled functional jacket
Sympatex is presenting the first upcycled functional jacket made from 30 percent recycled textiles and 70 percent recycled PET bottles at Ispo Munich. The three-layer high-performance jacket was developed and produced as part of the wear2wear consortium, the European industrial partnership founded in 2017, and announced by Sympatex in May ...
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The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) reports increasing number of Plastic Pledge signatories
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) reports that the number of Plastic Pledge signatories has risen from 44 to 70 since last summer’s edition of OutDoor by Ispo. The association is asking participants in and visitors to Ispo Munich to support the initiative by bringing their personal, reusable beverage and ...
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New collection from the Spanish outdoor brand Ternua will reflect three of its sustainability initiatives
The autumn/winter 2020/21 collection from the Spanish outdoor brand Ternua will reflect three of its sustainability initiatives: Redcycle, Colorcycle and Seacycle. The oldest of these, Redcycle (the name translates to Netcycle), was done with the help of the coastal-fishing fleet of Gipuzkoa province and support from the Basque Country’s government. ...
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Ternua and its German clients have raised €5,000 for a project to collect waste plastic from 3,000 kilometers of beaches and mountainous land
Ternua and its German clients have raised €5,000 for “Plastic Free: Mountain to Sea,” a project to collect waste plastic from 3,000 kilometers of beaches and mountainous land. The project was initiated last year by the European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca), of which the outdoor-apparel brand has been a member ...
