This is how the sporting goods industry deals with CSR & Sustainability – Page 85
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Adidas has decided to expand a pilot project encouraging workers...
Adidas has decided to expand a pilot project encouraging workers in factories of some of its Asian suppliers to share grievances directly with the company via text messages. Workers can send an SMS text message if they are concerned that their labor rights are being compromised. The system was first ...
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Pontetorto has announced that its factory in Prato, in Tuscany,...
Pontetorto has announced that its factory in Prato, in Tuscany, is now generating all the energy it needs from solar panels and is operating independently of the public electricity network. The Italian maker of activewear fabrics has set up a network of 7,000 solar cells covering an area of 10,000 ...
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On Earth Day, April 22, Burton announced its extended support...
On Earth Day, April 22, Burton announced its extended support of Protect Our Winters (POW). The POW organization is a foundation devoted to increasing awareness of the impact of climate change on the environment where the winter sports community is active. The boardsports company and POW are determined to unite ...
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CAPO, an Austrian specialty headwear brand, donated 600 hats and...
CAPO, an Austrian specialty headwear brand, donated 600 hats and caps to Tumaini, an organization that launched a campaign for albinos in Malawi. CAPO donated hats and caps, equipped with protection from UV rays. The hats and caps were handed out during the “Albinism Awareness Day” in Blantyre, Malawi.
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“Rote Nasen Clowndoctors” (red-nose clown doctors) have been given a...
“Rote Nasen Clowndoctors” (red-nose clown doctors) have been given a check for €17,700 by Intersport Austria, which was collected during a charity weekend in the shops of affiliated retailers. The clowns belong to a non-governmental organization dedicated to entertaining patients in Austrian hospitals. The event took place in 170 of ...
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A Nike-backed waterless-dyeing company, DyeCoo Textile Systems, recently gained a...
A Nike-backed waterless-dyeing company, DyeCoo Textile Systems, recently gained a significant new investor in Ikea GreenTech, a venture capital division of the Swedish retailer. In February 2012, Nike announced that it would invest in DyeCoo Textile Systems, a Dutch company that developed the first commercially available waterless dyeing technology. DyeCoo's ...
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With a special tee-shirt launched in the wake of the...
With a special tee-shirt launched in the wake of the deadly bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon last month, the Adidas Group has raised more than $1 million to support the victims of the blasts and their families. The tee-shirt, proclaiming that “Boston stands as one,” is sold in the ...
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Invista, a leading supplier of technical fabrics and the owner...
Invista, a leading supplier of technical fabrics and the owner of the Lycra brand, has become a member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). This group brings together more than 60 companies and other stakeholders in the apparel and footwear business that aim not to cause unnecessary environmental harm and ...
