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Timberland said in its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report...
Timberland said in its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report that it has exceeded its targets for the sustainabillity of the manufacturing processes used by its suppliers. In 2013, around 70 percent of its apparel and footwear was made in factories meeting its “Level 3” criteria, against a previously set ...
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A Vietnamese factory, Saitex, will make shoes for Puma with...
A Vietnamese factory, Saitex, will make shoes for Puma with recycled denim, cut from used jeans, using solar power and responsible water collection and waste treatment in the manufacturing process. The profits from this Re-Cut Project will be donated to the Bo Tho orphanage near Ho Chi Minh City, close ...
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Columbia Sportswear said that by raising over $123,000 in 2013...
Columbia Sportswear said that by raising over $123,000 in 2013 alone, its overall donation from its Tested Tough in Pink Collection exceeded $1 million. Since 2007 the U.S.-based outdoor company, in collaboration with participating retailers, has helped the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) provide thousands of free mammograms and early ...
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Jack Wolfskin says that half of its winter collection will...
Jack Wolfskin says that half of its winter collection will be made without the use of perfluorinated and polyfluorinated compounds (PFCs) as from 2014, two years ahead of schedule. In 2013, Jack Wolfskin made a commitment, under the motto “Going the extra mile,” to completely ban harmful chemicals from the ...
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Blake Mycoskie, the American social entrepreneur and author who funded...
Blake Mycoskie, the American social entrepreneur and author who funded Toms Shoes, is joining the B Team, the not-for-profit initiative of Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin, and Jochen Zeitz, the former chief executive of Puma International who initiated the environmental profit and loss accounting system adopted by Kering. The ...
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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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Adidas has defended itself against claims by Greenpeace International that...
Adidas has defended itself against claims by Greenpeace International that it has failed to fulfill commitments to reduce releases of toxic chemicals from its facilities. In its newly-launched Detox Catwalk initiative, Greenpeace included sportswear companies like Adidas, Nike and Li Ning in a list of “greenwashers.” The Detox campaign wants ...
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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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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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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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Swix Sport is conducting a three-year research project in an...
Swix Sport is conducting a three-year research project in an effort to make its wax products even more environmentally friendly, without compromising their functionality. The Norwegian company has acknowledged that the fluorine used in some of its products degrades slowly in nature, and though the limits are acceptable, it wants ...
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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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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 Timberland, The North Face, Vans,...
VF Corporation, the parent of Timberland, The North Face, Vans, Wrangler and others brands, 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 energy, greener transportation ...
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Adidas said that the energy efficiency program at its supplier...
Adidas said that the energy efficiency program at its supplier factories in Indonesia has proved so successful that it is considering its rollout to other countries. Launched in August 2011, in partnership with the German Organisation for International Cooperation - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the project on “Greening ...
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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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Bayer MaterialScience has developed solvent-free Impranil materials for coating textiles...
Bayer MaterialScience has developed solvent-free Impranil materials for coating textiles used in sporting goods, fashion goods and car seats. These polyurethane dispersions can be used to treat items such as team jerseys, soccer balls, shoes, jeans, jackets or bags. New raw materials can be processed using a mechanically blown foam ...
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Adidas tops the retail apparel category in Interbrand's annual ranking...
Adidas tops the retail apparel category in Interbrand's annual ranking of the 50 Best Global Green Brands, where the German brand landed 15th overall. In this category the next position was held by Nike, followed by H&M, and then Zara. Adding brands from other sectors, they were ranked 31st, 42nd ...
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The Oeko-Tex Association has presented its first sustainability awards to...
The Oeko-Tex Association has presented its first sustainability awards to companies in the textile industry. They were granted to five companies in five different categories. In particular, YKK got the award for quality management and Lenzing got it for product innovation. Other recipients were Sun Hing Industries Holding of Hong ...
