All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 11
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Novacel gets Covid-19 certified
Novacel, the French lens laboratory partly owned by Essilor, announced that it is the first company in the eyewear industry to obtain the Covid-19 standard by AFNOR (L’Association Française de Normalisation), a French-based control and standardization organization. The Covid-19 certification is based on an onsite verification of 93 points focusing ...
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Desio and Sightsavers Italia extend partnership to fight blindness
Desio, the color contact lens brand produced by Italian manufacturer Qualmed, is continuing its partnership with the Italian arm of Sightsavers, a non-profit focused on eye health, for the second consecutive year. In the first year of the partnership, Desio donated enough to fo treatments against trachoma, the world’s leading ...
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De Rigo donates €100,000 and frames in anti Covid-19 initiatives
De Rigo has taken part in two initiatives with the local authorities of the Veneto region, where it is based, as part of its efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The company donated €100,000 to the ULSS n1 Dolomiti local health and social care facility in Belluno through an agreement ...
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Zeal Optics revives its ocean-plastic campaign
Zeal Optics is restarting “Shades For Seas” campaign for World Oceans Day, on June 8. For every pair of sunglasses, goggles or accessory lenses sold anywhere in the world through the end of June, the company and its retailers pledge to remove five pounds (2.3 kg) of plastic from the ...
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ArticleWGSN sees three major consumer groups emerging from the crisis
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated societal changes and is forcing industries worldwide to adapt to the resulting changes in consumption, and WGSN has set out to predict what consumers will be looking for in the next couple of years.
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Foster Grant launches new Sofia Vergara collection
Foster Grant, a brand of Essilor International’s wholly-owned unit FGX International, has teamed up with Colombian-American actress Sofia Vergara for a new collection of reading glasses, sunglasses and trademark SunReaders. The Sofia Vergara x Foster Grant line comes in 24 styles personally curated by Vergara and available in a variety ...
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Luxottica joins forces with Padua university to manage Covid-19
Luxottica is intensiving measures to combat Covid-19. A new protocol, including blanket testing and sensors to maintain and monitor social distancing, is being implemented in Italy and will be extended to all of its facilities worldwide.
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Charmant starts to produce face masks
Charmant has started to produce face masks and will be making them available from mid-May. The first 5,050 face masks and 2,000 protective glasses will be donated to medical staff in Japan. The capacity will be increased in stages to produce 50,000 face masks by the end of May, 200,000 ...
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Silhouette restarts production
On March 16, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the management board of Silhouette International ordered most of the company’s administrative staff to work from home, suspended production at the factory in the city of Linz and retained a skeleton staff for the dispatch warehouse. On April 27, with the ...
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Pro Optik donates corrective frames to doctors and nurses in Germany
Pro Optik, a chain of 140 mostly franchised stores in Germany, has paid tribute to doctors and nurses during the coronavirus crisis by giving corrective frames to people working in the health care system. Entitled are about 500,000 doctors and almost 1.1 million nurses who are in the forefront of ...
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Zeal Optics inaugurates ocean plastic program
Zeal Optics of Boulder, Colorado, chose the 50th annual Earth Day, on April 22, to inaugurate its “Shades For Seas” campaign, which pledges to remove 50 pounds of plastic from the oceans for every pair of sunglasses, goggles or accessory lenses sold on zealoptics.com. To this end, it is working ...
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Oculus sells face shields at cost price
Oculus, the German manufacturer of ophthalmic instruments, is offering face shields at cost price via its online store. Face shields protect the entire face including the respirator with a large transparent disc. Oculus has developed tools for the company’s own injection molding machines in order to be able to produce ...
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica’s Q1 sales drop by 10%
EssilorLuxottica’s first-quarter revenues were down by 10.1 percent from the year-ago quarter to €3,784 million, or by 10.9 percent in constant currencies, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. But, the company is confident that pent-up demand will underpin sales when the crisis is over. Thanks to its financial ...
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Dragon Eyewear launches Upcycled
Dragon Eyewear – one of Marchon’s 25 eyewear brands – is launching Upcycled, a collection of frames made from recycled plastic water bottles. It comprises three unisex sunglass frames and three unisex ophthalmic frames, each made of five “upcycled” bottles. According to Marchon Eyewear’s senior vice president of global brands, ...
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News briefsSilhouette donates Evil Eye glasses to the Red Cross
Silhouette International, the eyewear manufacturer headquartered in Linz, Austria, has supported the Austrian Red Cross with 20,000 pairs of glasses of its Evil Eye brand, which has taken the place of its former licensed Adidas Eyewear collection. Some 5,000 pairs of glasses were distributed to the Red Cross employees in ...
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National Vision donates eyewear for children
National Vision has announced that during the holiday season it donated more than 8,100 pairs of free prescription eyeglasses to children in need across the U.S. through its 2019 holiday give-back initiative with America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, its largest retail brand. National Vision Holdings is one of the largest ...
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Essilor donates eyewear to UNSRF
Essilor has announced a donation of one million glasses and sunglasses to the United Nations Road Safety Fund (UNSRF) as part of a global effort to promote road safety. The UNRSF was established in April 2018 as a UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund, based on the resolution 70/260 adopted during the ...
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Safilo to use regenerated nylon produced by Aquafil
Safilo is making a significant pitch for sustainability by adopting a new material, Econyl. This is a regenerated nylon produced by Aquafil, an Italian manufacturer of synthetic fibers that is becoming increasingly popular among fashion and sportswear brands, but has never before been used in the eyewear industry. The ...
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Danish sunglasses made from ocean waste
A company based in Copenhagen, called Responseability (sic), is resorting to Kickstarter to help finance the launch of a sustainable collection of four unisex sunglasses made from 100% ocean waste plastic, where each pair is said to remove 1 kg of plastic from the ocean. The glasses are made of ...
