All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 7
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ZEISS sets up volunteer STEM program
For the company’s 175th anniversary, the employees of ZEISS have launched a volunteer program, called “A Heart for Science,” to encourage the young to go into science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). ZEISS has put together a handbook on the initiative, developed guided experiments, and set up a digital platform ...
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Essilux combines its charities under one umbrella foundation
EssilorLuxottica has rebranded its main charity under the name OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation, a French registered charitable organization (endowment fund) headquartered in Paris. The bulk of the organization was formerly called Essilor Social Impact. The new entity includes Vision for Life; the Essilor Vision Foundations in North America, India, Southeast Asia ...
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Sponsored articleYueheng and Wingram present sustainable solutions for eyewear
BioAcetate S70 is a biobased and biodegradable material that improves performance and the environment while leading lens manufacturer, Yueheng, offers a plethora of sustainable options for its customers.
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Kenmark’s new collection to use Eastman materials
Kenmark has launched the Spring Paradigm collection, with a 1970s aesthetic and frames and lenses made of Eastman’s Acetate Renew and Tritan Renew, respectively. It is the brand’s first collection to have received ISCC Plus certification in the U.S. Eastman Renew, which is being adopted by a growing number of ...
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Mitsui launches plant-derived 1.60 index lens material
Mitsui Chemicals is launching MR-160DG, a new plant-derived high index lens material that will complement its Do Green series. The new material has received the Biomass Mark certification of the Japan Organics Recycling Association, making it the first biomass-certified optical lens material with a refractive index of 1.60, the company ...
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ArticleMykita fully switches to sustainable acetate
MYKITA and Eastman have jointly announced that the independent eyewear company would exclusively source the U.S. specialty chemical company’s Acetate Renew for all its acetate material needs, as of last March 30. While several other eyewear brands have joined Eastman’s Acetate Renew’s program in the last months, the Berlin-based eyewear ...
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Altair Eyewear to support clean-ups in the U.S.
Altair Eyewear – a division of Marchon Eyewear, itself a division of VSP Global – has established a partnership with the non-profit Keep America Beautiful (KAB) to support the Great American Cleanup, which consists of some 15,000 events attended every spring by some half-million volunteers. Altair’s donation will provide litter ...
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Optical Affairs to sell art online to benefit Ukraine
The designers Christian Roth and Eric Domège of Optical Affairs have launched an e-commerce platform for both their eyewear and a changing assortment of photography and art from their private collection. The first installment contains, for example, work by Kenny Scharf, Ben Vautier, Christopher Makos and Jean-Michel Folon. A quarter ...
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Sunglasses by CFDA members to benefit LGBT center in L.A.
To celebrate Pride Month, in June, three Los Angeles members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) are collaborating on a limited edition of sunglasses, part of whose revenues will go towards the non-profit Los Angeles LGBT Center, especially its services for the elderly. Barton Perreira is contributing ...
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Hoya and IMI partner to fight myopia
Hoya Vision Care and the International Myopia Institute (IMI) have established a partnership to deal with prevention, treatment and management of myopia. Hoya will be sitting on the IMI board and collaborating on multimedia content, including summary videos for IMI whitepapers, to be posted on the IMI’s website and disseminated ...
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ArticleWarby Parker and Eastman find a circle for demo-lens plastic
In a partnership with Eastman, Warby Parker has established a recycling program for the recycling of demo lenses. The direct-to-consumer eyewear company says it has spent years researching alternative demo-lens materials, but so far all have fallen short on quality and proved “incredibly difficult to break down.” Since the ...
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CooperVision’s daily contacts are net plastic neutral
Now that its MyDay daily line has made the transition, the full range of CooperVision’s silicone hydrogel one-day contact lenses is net plastic neutral in the U.S. The Clariti one-day range made an earlier transition. According to CooperVision, the year-old project has so far kept about 22 million bottles’ worth ...
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Warby Parker has donated its millionth pair of glasses
Warby Parker says it has distributed more than a million pairs of glasses free of charge to the needy. The direct-to-consumer (DTC) specialist has accomplished this through a program, called “Buy a Pair, Give a Pair,” established at the same time as the company itself. In short, every pair purchased ...
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VSP Global extends partnership with blindness charity
VSP Global has renewed its partnership with the non-profit organization Prevent Blindness, on which it is bestowing a grant of $125,000. Through its own charity, VSP Eyes of Hope, the company will in addition be making other, in-kind contributions worth “up to $1.5 million.” VSP Eyes of Hope was founded ...
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ArticleEastman’s new French plastics recycling project will apply to eyewear, too
French President Emmanuel Macron and Mark Costa, Eastman Chemical Company’s board chairman and CEO, jointly announced last month 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 that would become operational by 2025. The facility would use Eastman’s ...
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Optic 2000’s HQ is going geothermal
In March, the Optic 2000 group will begin drilling a 200 meter shaft beneath its headquarters, which occupies some 12,000 square meters in the Parisian suburb of Clamart and employs some 450 people. This is the first stage in a project to shift the optical group away from carbon-based heating ...
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OKIA exceeds PET-recycling goal
OKIA – the self-described “integrated eyewear service provider focusing on design, latest materials and technology development, production and logistics services,” with headquarters in Hong Kong – launched the “One Million Bottle Challenge” in 2019. The objective was to use the plastic of one million recycled PET bottles to manufacture eyeglass ...
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Eastman ranked among top U.S. companies for ESG
Eastman has entered the Just 100, a ranking of companies by environmental, social and corporate (ESG) governance as determined by the non-profit organization Just Capital and the news network CNBC. To establish the list, Just Capital took the largest 954 American companies in the Russell 1000 Index and evaluated them ...
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ArticleCarbon-neutral Icare Group gets EcoVadis silver
Icare Group, the OEM eyewear supplier, announced a few weeks ago that it had received a silver rating from EcoVadis, one of the global leading platforms in environmental and ethical certifications for global supply chains. The company said that, with this new CSR achievement, it ranked in the top 25 ...
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Vanni Eyewear becomes a Benefit Corporation
Vanni Eyewear, the Italian eyewear company behind the Vanni and Derapage brands, has announced that it was changing its name to Vanni S.r.l. Società Benefit. The move follows the decision of Vanni’s owners, Giovanni Vitaloni, also president of Mido and Anfao, and Alessandra Girardi, to turn the company into a ...
