All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 9
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Safilo to renew car fleet sustainably
In its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint (see the article about the company’s use of regenerated nylon in our previous issue), Safilo will renew its car fleet with Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicles. In 2020, the group plans to include about 100 new cars equipped with the Japanese car ...
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Germany faces up to the disease differently
Governments around the world have stepped up restrictions on the movement of their citizens to reduce the spread of Covid-19, which, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , has infected over 780,000 and killed more than 37,000 people globally. As of March 31, more than 67,000 cases were ...
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EssilorLuxottica starts to cope with Covid-19
On March 27, EssilorLuxottica said it had stopped a share buyback program that it had announced only 10 days earlier, due to the growing uncertainty being created by the rapidly expanding Covid-19 pandemic. It’s one of the measures that the group is implementing to improve its liquidity in view of ...
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The Marcolin Group is sponsoring the first edition of the...
The Marcolin Group is sponsoring the first edition of the Positive Luxury Awards, endorsing the Innovation of the Year Award, which recognizes a service, product, technology or business model that prompts large-scale internal and external social or environmental improvements. The 12-person jury will consist of executives, consultants, writers, actors, activists ...
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Essilor is recognized as a Diversity Leader
Essilor has been awarded the title of “Diversity Leader 2020” by the Financial Times (FT). The French eyewear group ranked 62nd out of a total of 10,000 companies in the FT’s new annual ranking of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The assessment covered the companies’ achievements in multiple types ...
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Eyecity, the Japanese chain of contact lens stores owned by...
Eyecity, the Japanese chain of contact lens stores owned by Hoya Corporation, says it has collected a total of 3.3 million tons of empty cases made of recyclable polypropylene, contributing to a reduction in C02 emissions of 9.1 million tons. The entire proceeds of 7.9 million yen (€65k-$73k) have been ...
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Peek Vision, a British social enterprise that develops technology and...
Peek Vision, a British social enterprise that develops technology and partnerships to provide sustainable access to eye care, has joined forces with the Christoffel Blindenmission (CBM), the international non-profit organization for the blind. Being cost-effective and portable, Peek Vision's solutions can reach people in remote areas. Peek is a hybrid ...
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L'Amy America, a part of International Luxury Group (ILG), has...
L'Amy America, a part of International Luxury Group (ILG), has announced a multiyear license agreement with Marquee Brands to design, market and distribute an eco-green eyewear collection for the Ben Sherman brand. The range is scheduled to preview at Vision Expo East in 2020. The new Ben Sherman collection will ...
