All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 9
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Eschenbach makes a new donation to Vision for the World
For every sale of a frame produced by its brand Brendel Eyewear, Eschenbach Optik is donating a frame to the non-profit organization Vision for the World. The initiative began with the first pandemic lockdown and is set to run through the summer, for a total donation of 32,000 frames. In ...
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SABIC and POLYRAY partner on renewable PC lens
SABIC, a global supplier of chemicals based in Saudi Arabia, and Xiamen Hongtai Optical, the Chinese lens manufacturer better known under its POLYRAY brand name, announced last week their collaboration for the launch of a new sustainable material. Under the agreement, POLYRAY is launching its new BioPC lens range for ...
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CooperVision announces CSR partnerships in myopia management and sustainability
CooperVision has been busy on the CSR front in the last week with the announcement of three partnerships, related to myopia and sustainability. As for the first, the company first communicated its agreement with the World Council of Optometry, an international non-profit organization promoting access to eye health and vision ...
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Indo has signed the UN Global Compact
Indo Optical has signed on to the UN Global Compact and will be abiding by its Ten Principles on human rights, labor, the environment and corruption as well as its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Enric Florensa, the company’s CEO, sees this as following up on Indo’s earlier investments into its ...
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Optic 2000 extends support to eyecare research
Optic 2000, one of the leading optical retail chains in France, has just extended its sponsoring partnership with the Institut de la Vision (Vision Institute) for another three years. Founded in 2008, the Institut de la Vision regroups 300 eye specialists that are researching ocular diseases and looking for innovative ...
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ArticleSafilo to use Eastman sustainable materials from 2022
Safilo has announced that it would start using Eastman’s sustainable materials for its eyewear collections starting from 2022. The Italian maker selected the Eastman Tritan Renew, a copolyester made of 50 percent recycled content, for use in both sunglasses and eyeglasses of its proprietary brand Polaroid Eyewear, ...
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ArticleThélios, Mazzucchelli, Eastman to work on sustainable innovation
Thélios, the Italian eyewear manufacturer resulting from a joint venture between LVMH and Marcolin, the Italian acetate-sheet manufacturer Mazzucchelli 1849 and the American specialty chemical group Eastman have joined forces to develop sustainable innovation in the eyewear industry. “Sustainability has become a business imperative. We have chosen to team up ...
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Giorgio Armani to include sustainable eyewear
The Italian fashion company Giorgio Armani will include ecologically sustainable eyewear models for its brands Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani and A|X Armani Exchange. During 2021, about 20 new sunglasses and prescription frames, for men and women, will be introduced using recycled and recyclable materials. The lenses will be partially made ...
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ArticleItochu and Aquafil join forces to sell recycled nylon
The Japanese trading company Itochu and the Italian chemical firm Aquafil have entered a partnership to promote and expand the businesses of circular nylon production. In 2011, Aquafil created the Econyl Regeneration System that turns recovered nylon waste such as fishing nets, carpets and post-industrial waste back to caprolactam (CPL), ...
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44% of EssilorLuxottica’s employees are shareholders
EssilorLuxottica announced that a record 44 percent of its employees are shareholders at the end of its 2020 international employee share ownership campaign called Boost 2020. The subscription rate reached over 62 percent of eligible employees. Following the campaign, about 63,000 EssilorLuxottica employees in 81 countries hold a stake in ...
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Apollo to let staff help fight Covid-19
Apollo-Optik, the German eyewear retailer which belongs to GrandVision, is allowing staff take time off with pay to do voluntary work. The program aims to alleviate the strain on the healthcare system with the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jörg Ehmer, the CEO of Apollo, said that he was deeply ...
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EU to cut greenhouse emission by 55% by 2030
The 27 members of the European Union agreed on Dec. 11, after a night of negotiations, to reduce by at least 55 percent their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, compared with 1990 levels, increasing the target from a previous objective of 40 percent. “Europe will reduce emissions by at least ...
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EssilorLuxottica highest ranking optical firm for diversity in Europe
EssilorLuxottica ranked highest among optical firms in the Financial Times’s second annual Diversity Leaders classification. The survey conducted by Statista involved 850 European companies and assessed employees’ perception of companies’ inclusiveness or efforts to promote various aspects of diversity. These include gender balance, openness to all forms of sexual orientation, ...
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News briefsZeal Optics plants trees for every eyewear product sold
U.S. eyewear brand Zeal Optics celebrates its fifth annual “Buy A Zeal, Plant A Tree” campaign, applicable site-wide on zealoptics.com and throughout more than 1,000 retailers globally. In partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF) and 1% For The Planet, the brand will plant a tree for every sunglass, goggle ...
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News briefsSafilo produces recycled sunglasses for The Ocean Cleanup
Safilo announced the release of the first sunglasses made for The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit environmental organization that develops advanced technologies to extract plastic pollution from the oceans. The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses are made of injected plastic deriving from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). They are available in ...
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ArticleMarchon to use Eastman’s sustainable acetate
Marchon announced that it will be the first eyewear company to produce frames using Acetate Renew, a sustainable material produced by the American specialty chemical company Eastman. Unlike other sustainable alternatives, Acetate Renew is indistinguishable from classic acetate, according to Marchon. It plans to start producing acetate sunglasses and ophthalmic ...
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ArticleEleven companies launch the Renewable Carbon Initiative
Eleven companies from six countries have joined forces to launch the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI). The initiative, under the leadership of German research institute nova-Institute, aims to phase out the use of fossil fuels for all organic chemicals and materials by 2050 to enable chemicals, plastics and other organic materials ...
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ArticleLuxottica shares Covid-19 screening program with Versace
Luxottica, the Italian frame making unit of the EssilorLuxottica group, has decided to share with Versace its Covid-19 prevention, detection and research program currently being used in Italy. Luxottica has held the eyewear license of the Italian fashion house for the past 17 years. Luxottica developed the prevention and screening ...
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Guess, Marcolin support The Get In Touch Foundation
For the fifth year in a row, Guess and Marcolin are supporting a breast cancer awareness campaign organized by The Get in Touch Foundation with the creation of a capsule collection. The collection will comprise an ophthalmic and a sunglass frame, both embellished with a rose gold ribbon, the symbol ...
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Oakley factory to produce face shields
EssilorLuxottica’s frame unit Luxottica has converted part of Oakley’s Foothill Ranch factory in Orange County, California, to supply face shields to meet growing demand for protective equipment against the Covid-19 virus. The 550,000 square foot facility produces Oakley eyewear and goggles and the face shields will be manufactured alongside existing ...
