All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 132
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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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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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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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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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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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La Sportiva and Klean Kanteen have joined the ranks of the...
La Sportiva and Klean Kanteen have joined the ranks of the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA). The Italian brand of footwear and apparel and the U.S. marketer of eco-friendly bottles and outdoor kitchen equipment are the 30th and 31st members that have been welcomed by the industry-sponsored non-profit organization since the ...
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Patagonia is extending its Worn Wear recycling scheme to a...
Patagonia is extending its Worn Wear recycling scheme to a number of stores following the success of a pilot launched in its Portland, Oregon store in October 2012. Worn Wear is part of the company's Common Threads Partnership with its customers to take mutual responsibility for the items it makes ...
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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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VF Corporation, the parent of iconic brands such as Timberland,...
VF Corporation, the parent of iconic brands such as Timberland, The North Face, Vans, Wrangler and others, has joined BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy), the coalition that advocates innovative climate and clean energy policies. BICEP was launched in 2008 to propose initiatives in the domains of renewable ...
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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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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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Expanding on their collaboration for the production of 100 percent...
Expanding on their collaboration for the production of 100 percent recyclable sandals made with PLUSfoam material, Patagonia Footwear and PLUS Compound Technologies have now launched incentive programs to encourage consumers to recycle their used PLUSfoam flip flops. In view of the end of the summer season, Patagonia is offering consumers ...
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Chaco raised over $7,000 at the fourth edition of its...
Chaco raised over $7,000 at the fourth edition of its annual flip sale, which took place at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show, in August. All proceeds were donated to the Conservation Alliance, a group of outdoor industry companies that fund community-based campaigns to protect North America's threatened wild ...
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Patagonia has announced a partnership with an organization called Nature...
Patagonia has announced a partnership with an organization called Nature Conservancy and the Argentinian federation of ranchers, named Ovis XXI. The outdoor brand has agreed to buy wool from farmers in Argentina for use in its range of functional underwear. The sheep graze on some 1.6 million square kilometers, about ...
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Houdini will launch its first sustainability report in September this...
Houdini will launch its first sustainability report in September this year. Taking into account the whole production of the Swedish outerwear brand from May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2013, recycled fiber accounted for 57.7 percent and Bluesign-certified material for 62.3 percent. Materials that were neither recycled fiber or Bluesign-certified accounted ...
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The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) elected three companies -...
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) elected three companies - Polartec, Keen and Bergans of Norway - as EOCA Conservation Champions at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen because of the initiatives that they have taken at this and other events to raise funds for the association. Polartec sold 4,800 shirts ...
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Gore-Tex presented the finding of its latest life-cycle assessment study,...
Gore-Tex presented the finding of its latest life-cycle assessment study, developed in cooperation with the Öko-Institute Freiburg, during the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen. In the first half of 2013, Gore-Tex expanded its LCA work to a representative functional outerwear jacket, Gore-Tex Windstopper branded apparel, in order to measure its environmental ...
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(Already published in the Asia Outdoor issue) Sympatex and Vaude...
(Already published in the Asia Outdoor issue) Sympatex and Vaude will support the Trail of Change expedition led by a geomorphologist, Hannes Künkel. In August, he and his team, called Third Pole, will go to the Hymalajay to climb one of the mountains that reach above 8,000 meters. There, the group of scientists ...
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Craghoppers, the U.K.-based marketer of functional outerwear, has agreed to...
Craghoppers, the U.K.-based marketer of functional outerwear, has agreed to seal a strategic partnership with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Fossey was the famous U.S. scientist and environmentalist who sacrificed her live for the protection of the gorillas in Rwanda. The fund is devoted to the apes and the protection ...
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Schöffel announced on the first day of the OutDoor show...
Schöffel announced on the first day of the OutDoor show that its summer 2014 collection will be 100 percent PFOA-free. PFOA is notably helpful to make outer shells more water-repellent. While PFOA does not cause any harm to the user of the garment, its use in production has an impact on ...
