All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 186
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The Adidas Group, which is targeting an annual turnover of...
The Adidas Group, which is targeting an annual turnover of €500 million in the outdoor sector, was ranked as the 8th most sustainable company in the world in an authoritative chart made public on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Compiled every year by Corporate Knights, ...
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The Private Brands division of REI commits itself to using...
The Private Brands division of REI commits itself to using only 100 percent Bluesign-certified fabrics by the time the American cooperative retail chain launches its 2018 product line. The division develops private label apparel and equipment for REI's stores. The American outdoor retailer has been a member of Bluesign since ...
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Eco-leather Corp., a company that makes breathable leather made from...
Eco-leather Corp., a company that makes breathable leather made from chicken feathers, is working with Nike and Puma to develop an athletic shoe made out of non-toxic materials, Fast Company reports. Eco-leather is the brainchild of Richard Wool, a chemist at the University of Delaware who uses techniques developed in ...
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Oeko-Tex plans to release next summer a new online platform...
Oeko-Tex plans to release next summer a new online platform that it is developing to help companies track and manage the level of sustainability of their supply chain. Called MySTeP, it will be made available to any interested textile firms, regardless of whether they already have Oeko-Tex certification. The application ...
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The Sustainability Working Group (SWG) of the Outdoor Industry Association...
The Sustainability Working Group (SWG) of the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) of the U.S. has received the Green Supply Chain Award for this year from the Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. Founded in 2007, the OIA SWG has developed the Eco Index and other tools and resources to help ...
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Nikwax and Páramo, the U.K. brand of functional outerwear, presented...
Nikwax and Páramo, the U.K. brand of functional outerwear, presented the results of their exclusive partnership: a collection of rainwear which is entirely free of PFC. The Páramo collection features Nikwax' Analogy System which is said to be completely PFC-free. In regard to competing solutions suggested by leading outdoor apparel brands, ...
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Salewa and Dynafit, two brands of the Italian Oberalp group,...
Salewa and Dynafit, two brands of the Italian Oberalp group, have joined the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF), effective from Sept. 25. FWF is the non-profit organization, controlled by its stakeholders, which screens the social performance of the affiliated members from the textile industry. Around the same time, Oberalp published its ...
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Wade Davis, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence from Canada, will be...
Wade Davis, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence from Canada, will be the keynote speaker at the Conservation Alliance Breakfast during the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market next Jan. 23. The anthropologist and botanical expert, who is also a poet, will tell the story of the fight won by his community in British ...
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As part of its commitment to environmental causes, Patagonia has...
As part of its commitment to environmental causes, Patagonia has announced a partnership with the American brewery, New Belgium Brewing, to produce a limited-release organic lager beer, called California Route, that will be sold at a few locations in the U.S. The name of the beer comes from a trail ...
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Jack Wolfskin disclosed that it stopped working with four manufacturing...
Jack Wolfskin disclosed that it stopped working with four manufacturing facilities in China and one in India last year because they failed to meet the criteria of its code of conduct. The move was disclosed in the third annual social responsibility report issued by the German company on its suppliers, ...
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Bluesign Technologies has appointed a dedicated staff for North America....
Bluesign Technologies has appointed a dedicated staff for North America. It will be headed by Kevin Myette who has been named director of customer relationship management for the U.S. and Canada, servicing North American companies that are affiliated with Bluesign. Myette has worked for 26 years at REI, the U.S. ...
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Zeal Optics, an American brand of sunglasses that recently joined...
Zeal Optics, an American brand of sunglasses that recently joined the European Conservation Alliance, continues to spread its environmental message. As we already reported on Aug. 9, Zeal released earlier this year the world's “greenest” sunglasses, using a patented biodegradable compound based on cotton, called Ace. The company, which is ...
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Marmot Mountain has announced a repeat of last year's partnership...
Marmot Mountain has announced a repeat of last year's partnership with the Grassroots Outdoor Alliance, with a goal to raise up to $10,000 in November for the Conservation Alliance in the U.S. For any Marmot products priced at $99.00 or more bought from the retailers affiliated with the Grassroots Outdoor ...
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The Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany has developed some new...
The Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany has developed some new tests to determine the so-called “g-value,” a measure for the energy transmittance of materials. Textile manufacturers can use the results of these tests to optimize their products with specific regard to low energy transmission. The g-value is composed of the ...
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General Electric's expanded polytetrafluorothylene membranes, called in eVent and used...
General Electric's expanded polytetrafluorothylene membranes, called in eVent and used in fabrics for apparel and footwear, have been awarded the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certification. This standard is described as a comprehensive, global certification program for the safety of textile products that tests them for chemical substances believed to be harmful ...
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VF Corp. is currently developing a list of chemicals whose...
VF Corp. is currently developing a list of chemicals whose use will be banned in the production processes of its suppliers. The company also intends to control the finished products to ensure compliance. This is what Peter Higgins, senior manager, product and supply chain sustainability for the group, announced at ...
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A jury has elected Sympatex Technologies' Moisture Tech Volterra polyester-polyamide...
A jury has elected Sympatex Technologies' Moisture Tech Volterra polyester-polyamide compound to get the 2013 Performance Award at the Munich Performance Days, the sports textiles show due to be held on Nov. 19-21 in the Bavarian capital. It picked Sympatex' four-layer footwear laminate among more than 600 submissions. The product ...
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A few weeks ago, U.S. President Barack Obama took advantage...
A few weeks ago, U.S. President Barack Obama took advantage of his brief stopover in Stockholm on his way to the G20 summit in Saint Petersburg to learn about the latest eco-friendly technologies developed in Sweden. The products of MyFC were among those that attracted Obama's interest upon his visit ...
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Vaude has won this year's Green Fleet Award from TÜV...
Vaude has won this year's Green Fleet Award from TÜV Süd, the German testing body, for its efforts to reduce CO2 emissions from the use of vehicles. The outdoor company offers a wide range of solutions to employees such as car sharing, support for commuters using public transport and corporate ...
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Salewa and Dynafit, two brands of the Italian Oberalp group,...
Salewa and Dynafit, two brands of the Italian Oberalp group, have joined the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF), effective from Sept. 25. FWF is the non-profit organization, controlled by its stakeholders, which screens the social performance of the affiliated members from the textile industry. Around the same time, Oberalp published its ...
