All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 41

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    Cake enters partnership for Mexico, associated manufacturing for North America

    2023-03-14T18:03:00Z

    Cake, the Swedish manufacturer of premium lightweight electric motorcycles, has announced a significant partnership with Mexican mobility leader Italika and Citio, a Mexican company offering the first battery swapping network in the country, for electric two-wheel transition and acceleration in Mexico. Italika, owning the majority of the Mexican motorcycle market, ...

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    Endura's new provocative graphic helmets show worst case scenarios

    2023-03-14T14:20:00Z

    On the occasion of brain awareness week (#brainawarenessweek), helmet specialist Endura (a Scotland-based Pentland brand) has created four graphic cycling helmets that provoke a reaction by showing what can happen to the brain in the case of an accident without head protection. The helmets are printed with real-life head scans ...

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    GOTS Version 7.0 published after long consultation process

    2023-03-14T14:19:00Z

    The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) has released its GOTS version 7.0. The new certification guidelines feature an expanded scope of environmental and social criteria while aiming to maintain a standard that is practicable for industrial production and appropriate for a wide range of products. GOTS version 7.0 strives to ...

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    Globetrotter kicks off down recycling project with Mountain Equipment

    2023-03-14T11:23:00Z

    Globetrotter has started collecting discarded down-filled items (be it pillows, sleeping bags or jackets) from consumers. The program will last until Jan. 2024 and is offered in all of its 22 stores in Germany. Alternatively, Globetrotter customers can also send their items by postal mail. At the end of the ...

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    Olpro plants 10,000 trees to help combat climate change

    2023-03-14T11:23:00Z

    In partnership with Ecologi, a U.K.-based climate solutions provider, Olpro has planted over 10,000 trees in various locations around the world since 2021. The initiative is part of the British camping and outdoor brand’s ongoing commitment to sustainability and reducing its carbon footprint. Currently, one tree is planted for every ...

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    Re-Commerce company Responsible acquires IT specialist Haru

    2023-03-14T11:11:00Z

    Responsible, a global circularity platform, has acquired Haru. This tech-powered re-commerce solution was founded in 2018 as a service provider for charity shops (to date, 550 of them work with the Haru solution across Ireland and the U.K.). While joining forces, the two companies are aiming to provide collecting, sorting, ...

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    IGOT and Opening Up the Outdoors seek communications manager/outdoor activist

    2023-03-14T10:24:00Z

    The non-profit initiatives It’s Great Out There Coalition (IGOT) and Opening Up the Outdoors are currently seeking a communications manager to support their campaigns to get more people in Europe active in the great outdoors. The new role offers a high degree of flexibility in terms of location and working ...

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    Schwalbe manufacturer Bohle reports record sales in anniversary year

    2023-03-13T16:55:00Z

    For its 50th anniversary year 2022, Schwalbe manufacturer Ralf Bohle GmbH has reported record sales of €335 million. Compared to 2021, this is a whopping plus of 20.9 percent. Looking at the current fiscal year, however, the German company is expressing caution: For 2023, the bicycle tire manufacturer anticipates declining ...

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    Icebug switches to green power in Vietnam, CEO urges industry to follow suit

    2023-03-13T16:02:00Z

    Aiming to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels in its production process, Swedish footwear brand Icebug has been helping its factories in Vietnam install solar panels on their roofs for the past two years as part of a pilot project in collaboration with the German solar energy company BayWa r.e. ...

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    Schoeller introduces collection of recycled materials under the Re-Source umbrella

    2023-03-13T15:01:00Z

    At the coming Performance Days show in Munich (March 15-16, 2023), Swiss textile manufacturer Schoeller is introducing its new “Re-Source” line of functional fabrics made with different recycled materials such as polyester, polyamide and spandex, some of them lined with traceable merino wool provided by French supplier Nativa – who ...

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    Cotopaxi supports J-PAL LAC to empower women in Latin America

    2023-03-13T14:50:00Z

    Cotopaxi has announced a new partnership with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in Latin America and the Caribbean (J-PAL LAC). The purpose of the collaboration is to focus on women’s empowerment in Central America. J-PAL supports women to set and achieve goals and actively participate in the economy ...

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    Circ closes $25 million funding round backed by Zalando and Avery Dennison

    2023-03-13T14:50:00Z

    Circ, the Virginia-based fiber-to-fiber recycling tech firm, has secured $25 million in additional funds thanks to a number of new investors as well as previous investors. The new funding round was backed by European online platform Zalando and material science and digital labels maker Avery Dennison. Korean outdoor and sportswear ...

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    Lafuma launches resale platform

    2023-03-13T14:43:00Z

    Lafuma, a brand of the French Millet Mountain Group, has launched an online resale platform for its outdoor products, dubbed Second Leaf. The website was developed in partnership with Faume, a Parisian start-up that helps companies implement resale solutions. To be allowed on Second Leaf, the item must be a ...

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    Performance Days: Exciting innovations push recycled and biobased fibers forward

    2023-03-10T17:33:00Z

    Performance Days will showcase exciting improvements in recycled and biobased synthetic fibers. Here is a preview.

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    Patagonia celebrates 50 years of “business unusual”

    2023-03-10T16:46:00Z

    Patagonia is turning 50 this year. To mark the occasion, the outdoor apparel company, founded by Yvon Chouinard, is looking to the future and focusing on what’s next. From Patagonia’s perspective, any hope for a healthy planet - as well as a healthy company - requires that all people do ...

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    ​The Woolmark Company and Circle Sportswear present eco-designed merino running shoe

    2023-03-10T16:13:00Z

    The Woolmark Company has teamed up with French-based Circle Sportswear to unveil the sportswear brand’s first pair of merino wool running shoes, made entirely in Europe from biodegradable and 100 percent recyclable materials: The SuperNatural Runner. The upper of the shoe is made from 65 percent Australian Merino wool, the ...

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    Bergzeit supports social projects with €10K from returned products sale

    2023-03-10T12:03:00Z

    German mountain sports retailer Bergzeit held a special sale of returned and sample merchandise at its Gmund store in January 2023. During the four-day sale, returned items were offered at heavily discounted prices. According to the company, this was to send a signal against the destruction of returned and old ...

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    Sympatex to launch new recycled laminates at Performance Days

    2023-03-10T09:29:00Z

    At the Performance Days Munich on March 15 to 16, 2023, Sympatex will launch new recyclable, GRS-certified, polyester-based textiles consisting of 100 percent recycled textiles, ready to be fed into the textile cycle at the end of their product life. Thus, the mono-material products already correspond to the future binding, ...

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    Alpkit publishes sustainability report 2022

    2023-03-09T08:15:00Z

    Source: Alpkit U.K. brand Alpkit has published its sustainability report 2022, an illustrated book that is mainly consumer-facing and aims for an understandable overview of the company’s sustainability journey, although following the GRI reporting standards more closely than before. In the compact report, the certified B Corp ...

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    IOAS suspends Control Union India from organic textiles certification

    2023-03-08T15:16:00Z

    The International Organic Accreditation Service (IOAS) has suspended the accreditation of Control Union (CU) India from the testing and sampling of Indian organic textile products on charges of irregularities committed in its certification process. CU India is the local arm of the Control Union Nederland BV, a large certifier of ...