All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 151
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Lenzing has developed a new fiber based on cotton scraps...
Lenzing has developed a new fiber based on cotton scraps and wood called Refibre, which stands for “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.” Refibre, which is produced in the Tencel production process, is said to be the first cellulose fiber featuring recycled material on a commercial scale. Tencel itself is an environmentally-friendly ...
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Textile Exchange has awarded certification to Downlite under its Global...
Textile Exchange has awarded certification to Downlite under its Global Recycled Standard (GRS) for its 100 percent recycled Re/charged down. The U.S. company is a major supplier of down to outdoor apparel brands, including Columbia, Patagonia and The North Face. Downlite points out that its down is processed at a ...
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Wild Tee, the Italian maker of running apparel, has announced...
Wild Tee, the Italian maker of running apparel, has announced that the company has joined “1% for the Planet,” the global movement of companies donating at least one percent of their annual revenues to environmental organizations worldwide.
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Lenzing has announced that its viscose and modal fibers have...
Lenzing has announced that its viscose and modal fibers have been granted the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Certified Biobased Product label. Lenzing's lyocell Tencel fiber was certified as 100 percent biobased in 2011, while its FR fiber has been certified as 99 percent biobased, with the remaining 1 percent ...
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Patagonia has announced an exclusive research partnership with HeiQ to...
Patagonia has announced an exclusive research partnership with HeiQ to explore ways for a sustainable textile finishing technology to achieve high-performance breathable and durable water repellence (DWR). HeiQ, a Swiss innovator of textile technologies, already makes several fluorine-free DWR technologies, including Eco Dry, its non-PFC based repellent textile technology.
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Vaude, which has its own repair service, too, is the...
Vaude, which has its own repair service, too, is the first European outdoor brand to cooperate with iFixit to to tell customers how to repair its products through videos on its own website. This year, te German company was nominated twice by a jury of experts among the five best ...
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Patagonia is expanding its garment repair and recycling program, Worn...
Patagonia is expanding its garment repair and recycling program, Worn Wear, by adding an online platform for the resale of the products. This means that old garments brought in by consumers to the program may be repaired and resold on Patagonia's website – while the consumers who delivered the old ...
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The North Face (TNF), a division of VF Outdoor, has...
The North Face (TNF), a division of VF Outdoor, has joined the Grassroots Outdoor Alliance (GOA) in the U.S. as a vendor partner. GOA advocates for specialty, independent retail within the outdoor industry. Its retail members include more than 100 independent specialty outdoor retailers across North America. Its vendor partners are ...
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Nike and Patagonia have been honored at the World Economic...
Nike and Patagonia have been honored at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for their efforts in reducing waste in their products and operations. The two companies were the joint winners of the Accenture Strategy Award for Circular Economy Multinational. The award is one of the seven given out ...
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Helly Hansen has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. It will...
Helly Hansen has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. It will thus use the Higg Index to measure environmental responsibility across its supply chain. More than 180 brands, retailers, manufactureers and other organizations are already members of the SAC.
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Vaude is partnering with iFixit, an international online platform, to...
Vaude is partnering with iFixit, an international online platform, to make repair manuals available to its customers. The move is part of Vaude's sustainability efforts to maximize the lifecycle of its products. With the help of the new platform, customers can directly perform simple repairs on Vaude products and order ...
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Thermore says that its Ecodown range is now completely certified...
Thermore says that its Ecodown range is now completely certified by Bluesign. Its down fiber is the only one in the market that is completely made from recycled plastic bottles. A down jacket made with Ecodown saves ten bottles from landfills. At Outdoor Retailer this month and at Ispo Munich ...
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Oeko-Tex has published new regulations for various programs. The certification...
Oeko-Tex has published new regulations for various programs. The certification body, which has recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, has revised its Sustainable Textile Production (STP) certification standard. A new chapter has been added to the “Hazardous Processes That Should Be Avoided,” which includes the use of potentially hazardous surfactants, sodium ...
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Odlo is the first Swiss brand to have joined the...
Odlo is the first Swiss brand to have joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, which already has some 170 members among manufacturers, brands, retailers and various organizations. It will thus contribute data and resources to support the Higg index.
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Sympatex Technologies has announced it will introduce a Sympatex membrane...
Sympatex Technologies has announced it will introduce a Sympatex membrane in a climate-neutral way for the first time. The material basis of the membrane is the Sympatex copolymer, a compound of polyester and polyether molecules. During the production process, the company and its partner DSM have managed to reduce the ...
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VF Corp. has announced it is committed to achieving gender...
VF Corp. has announced it is committed to achieving gender parity across its corporate leadership structure by 2030. In order to pursue this goal, the company will be working in partnership with Paradigm for Parity, a coalition of business leaders dedicated to addressing the leadership gender gap in corporate America. ...
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PrimaLoft's Gold Insulation Eco, which features 55 percent post-consumer recycled...
PrimaLoft's Gold Insulation Eco, which features 55 percent post-consumer recycled content, will soon be available industry-wide. The technology, which was launched in July last year at the OutDoor Show in Friedrichshafen, had initially been made available in Patagonia's Nano Puff line only. Starting with the autumn 2017 season, it will become ...
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The Ispo Textrends section at Ispo Munich will introduce for...
The Ispo Textrends section at Ispo Munich will introduce for the first time an Eco Area next February for innovations that protect the environment while enriching the market. Furthermore, new products that are environmentally friendly will be given bonus points by an Ispo Award Eco judging panel.
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Greenpeace Italy has released a new report pinpointing what it...
Greenpeace Italy has released a new report pinpointing what it describes as four global “pollution hotspots” where chemical companies producing per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) have contaminated the environment, raising concerns about the health of surrounding residents. The four production sites identified by Greenpeace as pollution hotspots are located in ...
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VF Corp. has reported that it managed to reduce its...
VF Corp. has reported that it managed to reduce its carbon emissions by 12 percent between 2011 and 2015, well beyond the 5 percent target the company had set itself. More than half of the total reduction was made possible by the increased use of clean energy, renewable energy credits, ...
