Sustainability
Committing to 100% bluesign® approved fabrics by 2025, Storm Creek joins bluesign® System as the first US Promotional Products Brand Partner
Storm Creek, a leading innovator in sustainable apparel within the promotional products industry, is proud to announce its official partnership with bluesign® as a system partner. This partnership marks a significant milestone, as Storm Creek becomes the first promotional products brand to join the bluesign® system, setting a new standard for sustainability in the industry.
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OEKO-TEX® Annual Report 2023/2024 mentions 50,000+ valid certifications
The international OEKO-TEX® association has continued to demonstrate positive business growth, highlighting the critical role of close collaboration and shared commitment in accelerating sustainable change. More than 35,000 textile and leather companies depend on the certificates and product labels issued by OEKO-TEX®’s independent testing institutes. OEKO-TEX® issued more than 50,000 certificates and labels between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024 – an increase of 22% over the previous financial year.
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Dondup partners with Bluesign to set a new standard in sustainable denim
Dondup, the renowned Italian designer denim brand, is excited to announce its official partnership with bluesign®. As the leading European denim company to join the bluesign® System Partner network, Dondup underscores its unwavering commitment to sustainability, responsible production, and environmental stewardship, setting a new benchmark in the fashion industry.
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Lindauer DORNIER continues to rely on solar power
Lindauer DORNIER has put a new photovoltaic system into operation at its main plant in Lindau. Following the system at the Esseratsweiler plant, which was connected to the grid at the end of 2022, this is the machine and plant manufacturer's second photovoltaic system. In future, it will not only supply the company's own production, but also the public power grid with environmentally friendly solar energy. The family-owned company's aim is to cover its electricity needs entirely from renewables in the long term.
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IndustriALL Global Union, IF Metall and H&M Group update Global Framework Agreement
The world’s largest trade union federation, IndustriALL Global Union, representing 50 million workers, and H&M Group have together with the Swedish trade union IF Metall signed an updated global framework agreement, protecting the interests of more than one million garment workers.
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BASF Performance Materials co-creates the sustainable future with its customers
BASF’s Performance Materials division reveals its strategic roadmap toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and highlights key milestones on its way to a circular economy. With that, the division, which brings together BASF's entire materials know-how regarding innovative and customized plastics, positions at the forefront of the much-needed sustainability transformation in plastics.
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Cascale’s Annual Meeting to urge consumer goods industry to go further, faster on climate
Hundreds of leaders from the consumer goods industry are gearing up for Cascale’s Annual Meeting 2024 on September 9-11 in Munich, Germany, which will involve three days of inspiring and action-orientated talks and workshops to catalyze impact at scale to help achieve a more sustainable and equitable future.
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bluesign's impact numbers: Setting the standard for sustainability in the textile industry
bluesign®, a global leader in sustainable textile production, proudly unveils its numbers for 2023, highlighting its commitment to environmental stewardship and supply chain transparency. This recent comprehensive report underscores why bluesign® SYSTEM stands as the premier sustainability framework, holding the best environmental impact metrics in the industry, including the reduction of 3 billion kilotons of carbon emissions in 2023.
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Footwear: a new initiative by Fashion For Good
Fashion for Good and its footwear focused partners adidas, Inditex, ON Running, PVH Corp., Reformation, Target, and Zalando announce an ambitious new initiative aimed at accelerating and validating the next generation of footwear innovations. This builds on the organisation’s existing work leveraging their expertise in scouting, validation, and pioneering innovation and collaboration. This initiative will address the key intervention points needed to drive footwear circularity spanning four work streams across the supply chain from materials to end of use.
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End of transitional period for Green Button 1.0 recognized certification labels and newly recognized labels
August 1st 2024 marks the end of the transition period for Green Button 1.0 recognised labels. From this date, companies may only list new Green Button products that carry labels that are recognised for Green Button 2.0 at the manufacturing and wet process stages of the supply chain. The requirements for raw material extraction (fibres and materials) are subject to a transitional period until 31.07.2026. Only after this date will these requirements become binding.
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Global Standard partially suspends Intertek Testing Services Na Inc. as a GOTS-approved certification body
Based on the discovery of serious lapses at Intertek Testing Services NA Inc. (Intertek), a GOTS-approved Certification Body (CB), Global Standard gGmbH management has decided to partially suspend the work in specific areas of Intertek’s operations. Intertek was notified on 25 July 2024.
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Global Standard to develop new standard, expanding GOTS benefits to sustainable fibres
Since 2006, the self-funded non-profit Global Standard has set the benchmark for environmental and social criteria through its Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). Building on nearly two decades of success, Global Standard is excited to announce the development of a groundbreaking new standard to expand GOTS benefits to a wider range of sustainable fibers.
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M&S launches clothing repair service to give quality clothes ‘another life’ through plan a
Today, Marks & Spencer has announced it will offer a dedicated clothing repair service for the first time. With new insight from M&S* revealing only 10% of the population is confident enough to repair clothing themselves and 60% of consumers looking for retailers to offer more services which support them to lower their carbon footprint, M&S is partnering with clothing repair and alterations experts, SOJO.
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Naia from Eastman partners with ESDI for sustainable fashion educational project
In a significant step towards promoting a culture of ecoconsciousness, Naia™ from Eastman partnered for an educational project with ESDI Escola Superior de Disseny in Sabadell (Barcelona). This collaboration underscores a commitment to integrating sustainable practices with academic excellence, providing ESDI students with the opportunity to design and produce garments using Naia™ fibers to participate in a fashion competition that celebrates the eternal tale of heaven and hell, Dante Alighieri's “The Divine Comedy.”
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