All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 12
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Coats launches Lattice Lite Eco for footwear
Coats is launching Lattice Lite Eco, a fiber-laying technology using sustainable materials to create footwear composite materials. The British industrial thread manufacturer described the technology as “revolutionary” as it enables yarns to be precisely positioned in the required place and direction. ”This means the thickness, flexibility, torsion and rigidity of ...
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Piquadro starts footwear collaboration with ACBC
The Italian leather goods company Piquadro presented its first collection of unisex sneakers called Corner20 at the Pitti Immagine Uomo trade show held in Florence from Jan. 11 to 14. The shoes were produced in collaboration with ACBC and are matched with a selection of backpacks. ACBC is an Italian ...
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ArticleTexon launches a more sustainable version of the Reform heel-counter
Texon has launched a new version of its Reform heel-counter which it claims contains up to 66 percent of sustainably sourced content while “offering the same physical traits as its predecessor.” The new Texon Reform 2.0 contains more recycled content from post-consumer waste, such as ocean-bound plastic bottles, according to ...
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Shoe Carnival pledges $100,000 to tornado victims
Shoe Carnival pledged to donate $100,000 to the American Red Cross. The donation will benefit relief efforts for those affected by the tornadoes that devastated portions of the South and Midwest of the U.S. from late Dec. 10 to early Dec. 11. Shoe Carnival stores in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, ...
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Higg appoints a chief strategy officer to lead the platform’s expansion
Higg, the environmental software platform responsible for the Higg Index, has appointed James Schaffer as chief strategy officer to lead business development and partnerships. Schaffer’s experience in developing industry initiatives in the apparel sector, where Higg’s platform is widely used, is expected to be instrumental in guiding the company’s expansion ...
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Dutch consortium develops shoelaces from old denims
Four companies from the Dutch province of Limburg have jointly developed shoelaces from recycled jeans. The companies are DenimX, which upcycles denim waste, Eurocarbon, which makes woven reinforcements, the paper company Paperwise and Emma Safety Footwear, which will be the first to use the laces. Hultafors, the Swedish group that ...
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Responsible Packaging Movement reaches 100 signatories
The Responsible Packaging Movement, launched last year by Columbia Sportswear’s prAna brand, has reached 100 signatories thanks to the addition of the footwear brands Sorel and Hoka. On its website, prAna explained that its goal is to completely eliminate plastic from its consumer packaging by 2021, as well as eliminate ...
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ArticleCompanies must be sincere in promoting sustainability or risk a backlash
With consumers demanding more sustainable and equitable products and being increasingly aware of corporate greenwashing, footwear brands must be authentic in marketing sustainable goods. Otherwise their communication strategy may backfire, trend forecasting company WGSN warned during a couple of webinars organized by the Italian trade fair Expo Riva Schuh. Greenwashing ...
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ArticleCCC Group plans to triple sales by 2025
The Polish footwear and apparel retailer CCC Group plans to triple revenues to over 20 billion zloty (€4.2bn-$4.8bn) in 2025 largely thanks to the development of its online business and of its newly launched off-price banner HalfPrice, as well as an increased presence in apparel and accessories. The share of ...
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Erem launches a new hiking boot
Erem, a Nevada-based company founded in 2021, has unveiled a new hiking boot that is ”high on performance and low on environmental impact.” The collection launches with the men’s and women’s Xerocole and Xerocole Expedition boots, named after animals that thrive in desert environments. The uppers of the Xerocole collection ...
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OrthoLite launches new sustainable insole technologies
The U.S. brand OrthoLite is introducing two new sole technologies that elevate the total eco content of the insoles to 57 percent and 50 percent, respectively. The new soles, called HybridPlus-Bio and HybridPlus-Recycled, have been developed in the framework of Ortholite’s zero-waste initiative. While the “recycled” soles are made with ...
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ArticleEU proposes new rules to fight deforestation, promote circular economy
The European Commission has adopted three new initiatives proposing rules to curb deforestation, to facilitate intra-EU waste shipments to promote circular economy and tackle the export of waste to third countries. From 1990 to 2020 the world has lost 420 million hectares of forest, an area larger than the European ...
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Expo Riva Schuh releases online events calendar
Riva del Garda Fierecongressi, the organizers of Expo Riva Schuh and Gardabags, confirmed that the trade shows will be held Jan. 15-18 at the exhibition center of the Italian town of Riva del Garda to present collections for the autumn/winter 2022-2023 season. They also released a calendar of online events ...
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Nike under suspicion of greenwashing in German media
In a broad investigative joint journalistic effort, several German media have chased down returned Nike footwear (used and new) that had been tagged with GPS trackers and went into a recycling plant in Herenthout, Belgium, to be destroyed and recycled into the “Grind” material that Nike uses for gym floors, ...
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Crocs to provide resale-as-a-service with ThredUp
Crocs is launching a resale program with ThredUp’s Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. The program is called “Clean Out” and is likewise intended to help the brand achieve net-zero carbon emissions – in this case by 2030 – and establish a circular economy. Customers in the U.S. can go online and print ...
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VF makes new CSR pledges
VF Corp’s fourth sustainability and responsibility report says the group will achieve zero waste verification at all its warehouses and distribution centers by the end of this year, compared with 72 percent at present. This would mean that at least 95 percent of their waste will be diverted from landfills. ...
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ArticleMost U.S. footwear companies plan to increase the use of sustainable materials
Sustainability continues to be a hot topic for U.S. footwear companies with 69 percent planning to use more bio-materials or recycled content in their upcoming collections while 49 percent of them are already asking material suppliers for certifications or life cycle assessments to verify claims, according to the 2021 Shoe ...
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China to increase coal production by nearly 6%
China is due to increase coal production by nearly 6 percent to address power shortages affecting the country, the news agency AFP reported citing the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). China is the world’s main coal producer and polluter, as well as the largest manufacturer of footwear, and ...
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SBTi approves eBay’s ambitious climate action goal
eBay’s ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets were approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The U.S. e-commerce company commits to cut its own (scope 1 and scope 2) emissions by 90 percent by 2030 from a 2019 base year, in line with limiting global temperature warming to 1.5°C ...
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VF and WaterAid partner to vaccinate Cambodians
In an effort to protect workers’ health and keep the supply chain steady, VF is supporting the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Cambodia. VF’s Worker and Community Development program, partnering with the nonprofit WaterAid to support the rollout of the Cambodian government’s Covid-19 response plan. More than 20,000 factory workers ...
