All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 96
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ArticleKathmandu benefits from Rip Curl and online; publishes sustainability report
It was the acquisition of Rip Curl that helped Kathmandu Holdings to raise its total sales by 48.7 percent to 801.5 million New Zealand dollars in the “transformational” financial year ended on July 30, with the action sports brand contributing sales of NZ$ 315.7 million (€178.2m-$210.6m) in the first nine ...
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News briefsSchöffel Foundation uses German VAT reduction to support tree plantations
The Schöffel Foundation, founded in 2011 by Hubert and Peter Schöffel, which promotes and initiates social and ecological projects, is supporting tree planting and forest redevelopment in state forests in the German state of Bavaria. German online shoppers can donate the 3 percentage point reduction in value-added tax – one ...
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PrimaLoft’s New York lab receives ISO 17025 certification
PrimaLoft, Inc, the materials technology company headquartered in Latham, USA, with offices in Xiamen, China, has successfully passed the ISO 17025 testing process in its New York laboratory. Meeting the ISO 17025 certification standards shows that a laboratory is competent and produces valid results, which promotes confidence in its testing ...
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A new sustainability alliance of chemical groups
Seven of the world’s leading chemical companies have joined forces on a new commitment to accelerate the adoption of sustainable chemical solutions in the textile and leather industries. The initiative is called Sustainable Chemistry for the Textile Industry (SCTI), and its founding members include Archroma, CHT Group, Huntsman, Kyung-In Synthetic ...
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GSI Outdoors joins prAna’s Responsible Packaging Movement
GSI Outdoors, a family-owned U.S. company producing outdoor cooking and dining gear founded in 1985, has joined prAna’s Responsible Packaging Movement. GSI Outdoors was early to adopt sustainability measures, and continues to investigate ways to make the business’s environmental footprint as light as possible. Over the years, the company has ...
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ArticleTNF addresses inequity in the Outdoors with global Reset Normal initiative
With the Reset Normal campaign, The North Face (TNF) has launched a global initiative to encourage people around the world to redefine their lives through exploration in the outdoors. As part of this initiative, TNF is launching the Explore Fund Council, a global body that brings together experts from the ...
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Textiles expert Verity Hardy to lead EOG’s new sustainability initiative
Source: EOG Dr. Verity Hardy, EOG sustainability project manager Dr. Verity Hardy has been appointed sustainability project manager of the European Outdoor Group (EOG). She has joined the team to lead EOG’s new Climate Action Program, which will start to roll out from November. Hardy will work ...
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ArticleVaude establishes Academy for Sustainable Business Management
Together rather than against one another: After Houdini had just made the development specifications of one of its most sustainable products available as Open Source, the German outdoor brand Vaude has now announced the foundation of the “Vaude Academy for Sustainable Business.” The academy is designed to support other companies ...
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News briefsHigg to launch Open Data Portal to validate brands’ sustainability claims
At the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, technology company Higg Co has unveiled its new Open Data Portal, introducing sustainability transparency to the apparel industry at a global scale. Expected to launch in 2021, the new portal, developed in partnership with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), will feature access to the actual ...
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News briefsProtect Our Winters UK launches POW Pledge initiative for climate action
Protect Our Winters (POW) UK launched POW Pledge, a digital portal to equip the industry to take climate action towards net zero. “It’s very simple; our industry has to act on climate change in order to survive,” said POW ambassador Ed Leigh. “The POW Pledge is the map that can ...
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American National Park Trust honors Hydro Flask’s Parks For All program
Hydro Flask is the first organization to receive the prestigious American Park Experience Award 2020. This award, previously given only to individuals, recognizes each year exceptional contributions to promoting awareness and appreciation of the parks and public lands and waters of the United States. With the award, the National Park ...
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ArticleYKK wants to be climate neutral by 2050
At this week’s Copenhagen Fashion Summit, YKK, the leading manufacturer of fasteners and trims, announced the YKK Sustainability Vision 2050, which among other things is intended to serve as a roadmap for the company to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The five themes of the YKK Sustainability Vision 2050 are ...
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Black Diamond partners with POW and FWT
Black Diamond Equipment announced a new partnership with Protect out Winters (POW). While it commenced with POW’s “Outdoor State” campaign in the U.S. in an effort to encourage people to vote, it is an annual partnership that will focus on climate advocacy. Additionally, Black Diamond and Pieps renewed its partnership ...
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News briefsKilian Jornet launches foundation for the preservation of the mountain environments
Kilian Jornet, a ultra trail and sky runner from Spain, sponsored by Salomon and Suunto, among others, has created the Kilian Jornet Foundation, which aims to preserve mountain environments through research, direct action and education. The first project that the new foundation will support is the study and research of ...
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News briefsEOCA online conservation vote is open
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) has launched its public online voting, which will help the association select the projects it will fund this fall. In line with the current Plastic Free: Mountain to Sea campaign, all the projects on the shortlist are involved with the issue of single-use plastic. ...
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News briefsDeuter supports trash removal in the mountains
German backpack specialist Deuter is supporting the Austrian association #estutnichtweh (“it does not hurt”), which takes care of garbage collection in the mountains, by providing different backpack models. The association also uses other tools, all donated by various supporting partners: The trash goes into “Drecksackerl” (reusable trash bags); the hands ...
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Worn Again brings together cross-industry circular advisory panel
Cyndi Rhoades, the founder of Worn Again Technologies, a British technology licensing company that just recently secured €8 million in new equity capital, has convened a Circular Advisory Panel (CAP) for guidance and influence as the company progresses towards commercialisation in the circular textile economy. The CAP will help design, ...
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News briefsSuccessful SA8000 audit of Tatonka’s factories in Vietnam
The production facilities owned by the German outdoor brand Tatonka in Ho Chi Minh City and in Binh Dinh Province in Vietnam, which are operated by Mountech Co. Ltd., meet all the requirements of the current SA8000:2014 social standard, as confirmed by the current audit conducted by TÜV Rheinland on ...
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ArticleTÜV Süd issues warning regarding harmful substances in outdoor clothing
TÜV Süd, a globally active auditing and testing company headquartered in southern Germany, which has written its own code of practice for the optimization of technology, systems and know-how, has launched an appeal to end-consumers to check for the absence of harmful substances when buying outdoor clothing, especially outerwear. The ...
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News briefsOrtovox to offer free avalanche workshops at specialist retailers in DACH
In cooperation with selected specialist retailers, mountaineering expert Ortovox is offering exclusive evening workshops on avalanche risk management called Ortovox Avalanche Nights at 13 different retailers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland between October 2020 and January 2021. Together with professional mountain guides, interactive, three-hour courses are held to train the ...
