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Warby Parker and Eastman recycled 12 tons of demo lenses in 2023
US optical retailer Warby Parker has announced in its Impact Report 2023 that over 12 tons of demo lenses from its Sloatsburg and Las Vegas labs were collected and recycled through its partnership with Eastman Chemical, marking a significant increase from 2022 (9 tons). In other highlights of its sustainability ...
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Gibaplast adopts Eastman Tenite Renew
Gibaplast, the Italian-based supplier of cellulose esters and other materials for the eyewear industry, has adopted Eastman’s Tenite Renew material, the U.S. specialty materials manufacturer has announced. Tenite Renew is a more sustainable version of the company’s Tenite cellulose acetate propionate that is widely used in the production of injection ...
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News briefsFrench specialist in readers extends its line
Nooz Optics, a French specialist in reading glasses, is expanding its collections to sunglasses and eyeglasses with the release of a new line of 35 models. Called Nooz Eyewear, the line makes use of Korean titanium and stainless steel as well as Eastman’s Acetate Renew. Nooz now produces some 200 ...
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Warby Parker recycled 9 tons of demo lenses in 2022 with Eastman
In its 2022 Impact report released earlier this month, U.S. omnichannel retailer Warby Parker announced that it has recycled over 9 tons of demo lenses since the launch of its partnership with Eastman in the first quarter of the year. Through this circularity program, demo lenses from the company’s production ...
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FGX signs LOI with Eastman for Tritan Renew procurement
FGX International, a subsidiary of the EssilorLuxottica group, has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Eastman to reserve a “significant” volume of the company’s Tritan Renew to be produced at the materials’ supplier new plant in Kingsport, which will become operational later this year. Tritan Renew is a copolyester ...
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Safilo to start using Tritan Renew in polarized lenses
The Safilo Group is pursuing its partnership with Eastman with the scheduled introduction of the U.S. chemical supplier’s Tritan Renew material for its polarized lenses. The Italian eyewear manufacturer will start using the material from August 2023 in its Under Armour collections, before a progressive roll-out across its portfolio of ...
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News briefsLa/Es to use Eastman’s Acetate Renew
Laminati Estrusi Termoplastici (La/Es) announced on the opening day of the Silmo show in Paris that it would start offering Eastman’s Aceter Renew across all its acetate collections. Acetate Renew is an acetate flake made of 60 percent bio-based and 40 percent recycled material. The new material has been progressively ...
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Safilo expands use of Eastman’s sustainable materials
After having been one of the early adopters of Eastman’s Acetate Renew and Tritan Renew materials, the Safilo Group has announced that it would start using the U.S. chemicals company’s Tenite Renew starting January 2023. Tenite Renew is produced via Eastman’s carbon renewal technology and composed of a minimum of ...
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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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FGX to use Eastman’s recycled copolyester
FGX International – the Essilux-owned designer and marketer of nonprescription reading glasses, optical frames and sunglasses – has signed a procurement deal to use Eastman’s Tritan Renew copolyester throughout its product portfolio. The first frames to make the switch will be those under the Foster Grant brand. Half of the ...
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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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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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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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Andy Wolf to transition to Acetate Renew
Andy Wolf , the Austrian-based designer eyewear brand, has announced that it would start converting its acetate collections to sustainable acetate following its ISCC Plus certification and its qualification for the Acetate Renew program jointly run by Mazzucchelli and Eastman . The ISCC Plus label is delivered ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
