All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 8
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ArticleMerrell unveils a multi-year sustainability initiative
Merrell has unveiled “This Is Home,” a multi-year sustainability initiative designed to inspire consumers to protect nature. The campaign focuses on digital, social and connected TV and showcases Merrell footwear and apparel made from more sustainable materials. It aims to inspire people to go outside with as little impact on ...
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News briefsFootwear start-up Hylo raises €2.9 million for low-CO2 vegan shoes
The U.K.-based brand Hylo Athletics, co-founded by ex-football professional Michael Doughty in 2020, has secured €2.9 million in a Series A funding round for its vegan-friendly sneakers that are made with natural rubber, cotton, algae and corn fiber. The company claims the “corn runners” have a 52 percent lower carbon ...
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News briefsScarpa unveils the eco-friendly Mojito Planet Denim
Scarpa has unveiled the Mojito Planet Denim, an all-terrain shoe made using recycled fabrics from production waste that are regenerated and transformed into new yarns. The process is based on an energy-saving technology that allows saving more than 65 percent of water compared with traditional systems, Scarpa says. The upper ...
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News briefsHunter introduces slippers and sandals with algae
Hunter, one of the bigger players in the rubber boots market, has introduced a capsule of summer slippers and sandals made from blown EVA and a share of a new material made with algae that are harvested by cleaning up waterways. The colorful “Bloom” line consists of a sandal and ...
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Native Shoes partners with Braskem for bio-based EVA polymer
Native Shoes, a Canadian footwear brand founded in 2009, has started a collaboration with Braskem, a Brazilian petrochemical company, on the new line of The Robbie footwear. Through the partnership, Native Shoes is using Braskem’s I’m green, which it claims is a sustainably sourced carbon negative ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) sugarcane-based ...
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ArticleACBC plans an IPO within two years
ACBC, a fast-growing Italian B Corporation which focuses on sustainable footwear, aims to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange within the next two years. In an exclusive interview with Shoe Intelligence, Gio Giacobbe, who founded the company in 2017 with Edoardo Iannuzzi, explained that the company has preferred ...
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ArticleItalian self-assessment ESG program to start beta trials
A software package allowing the self-assessment of companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) performances is scheduled to be rolled out for beta tests at several Italian companies over the coming weeks. The indicative number of companies involved in the trials could be four to six, according to the developers of ...
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News briefsEcovative partners with Vivobarefoot and Pangaia in research project for mycelium hide
New York-based mycelium technology company Ecovative announced a joint research collaboration with the footwear brand Vivobarefoot and Pangaia, a materials science company. As part of the Fashion for Good initiative, the companies’ teams will work together to develop customized mycelial materials for use in their footwear and fashion products. ...
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News briefsResearch project for textile dyes from algae gets boost from collaboration
In a new research project, the workwear company Fristads, the startup Mounid and the knowledge center Wargön Innovation have come together to develop a more sustainable alternative to conventional textile dyes. The project is based on two Swedish innovations – Imogo Tech’s digital spray technology and Mounid’s algae ink, which ...
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ArticleLi Ning excluded from Norway’s sovereign fund
The Chinese sportswear company Li Ning has been excluded from Norway’s sovereign fund, Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, because of possible links to alleged human rights abuses in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, said the Norwegian central bank, Norges Bank, which manages the fund. The fund’s Council on Ethics recommended ...
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Job portal for Ukrainian refugees
Thousands of refugees from the war zone in Ukraine are currently forced to settle in new places and are looking for a way to earn a living. To help with this, www.jobaidukraine.com, an initiative for Ukrainian refugees, was launched by the German initiative Händler helfen Händlern (retailers support retailers) as ...
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Covestro, Huafeng, Cyclone cut CO2 emissions for sports shoes
The German chemical group Covestro, the Chinese textile technology firm Huafeng and the Chinese green fiber technology company Cyclone have jointly developed a solution to manufacture running and sports shoes that generate around 230 grams of CO₂ equivalent less than a pair using conventional fossil-based polyurethane (PU) dispersions and virgin ...
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News briefsAku adopts carbon footprint systemic approach
With the help and ISO 14067 certification of Bureau Veritas, the Italian footwear specialist Aku has started to implement a three-step carbon footprint systemic approach to all of its operations from sourcing to a product’s end of life. In the process, more than 800 components have been analyzed according to ...
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ArticleOrthoLite launches a recyclable, compostable midsole foam
OrthoLite has launched Cirql, which it claims to be the first-ever ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) plastics free, recyclable and compostable midsole foam “with an end of life solution” that can be applied for athletic, casual, fashion, work and children footwear. The U.S. producer of insoles, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary ...
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Designer Brands invests $2 m in black-owned factory
Designer Brands, the parent of the shoe retailer DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, is investing $2 million in the first Black-owned footwear factory in the United States – JEMS by Pensole – to produce shoes designed by graduate students of the Pensole Lewis College of Business & Design (PLC). The shoes ...
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ArticleAllbirds launches a resale platform
Allbirds, the B Corporation certified Californian brand of footwear and apparel, has launched the resale platform Allbirds ReRun in partnership with Trove, which specializes in branded recommerce. ReRun will initially offer customers at three stores the option of trading in their Allbirds shoes for $20 in store credit. Following the ...
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A new plant-based textile fiber from Finland
Nordic Bioproducts Group, a Finnish start-up and a spin-off from Aalto University, has developed a new plant-based textile fiber called Norratex, made without any toxic chemicals or expensive solvents. In Nordic Bioproducts’ patented AaltoCell technology, the cellulose is first hydrolyzed in an environmentally friendly manner; then, it is further processed ...
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News briefsU.S. fiber company Circular Systems joins C.L.A.S.S. material hub
California-based company Circular Systems is a new C.L.A.S.S. material hub partner, promoting its circular, regenerative solutions for transforming waste into net positive fibers, yarns and fabrics through the platform based in Milan, Italy. In its own words, C.L.A.S.S. identifies fibers, yarns, fabrics that embody creativity, innovation and sustainability at the ...
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Vulcabras gets top ratings for sustainability
Vulcabras has been certified by three Brazilian industry bodies, as a most sustainable shoe manufacturer in the country. The Brazilian parent of Olympikus, which manufactures 25 million pairs of shoes a year at its own factories in the country, It is the first one in the sector to be using ...
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News briefsEastman to invest $1bn in a plastic recycling facility in France
French President Emmanuel Macron and Mark Costa, Eastman Chemical Company’s board chairman and CEO, jointly announced on Jan. 17 that the U.S.-based specialty materials company plans to invest up to $1 billion in a material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France. The facility would use Eastman’s polyester renewal technology to recycle ...
