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Outdoor companies affirm their commitment to the Higg Index

01/08/2016
Thirty-five leading outdoor industry companies have publicly reiterated their commitment to using the Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s Higg Index to improve environmental and social responsibility throughout their supply chains, and have encouraged the rest of the industry to join them.

In the build-up to the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market exhibition in Salt Lake City in August, the companies put their names to a new public commitment statement. The companies are:

Allied Feather & Down
Berghaus
Brooks Sports
Burlington Industries, LLC
Burton Snowboards
Cascade Designs
Columbia Sportswear
Cone Denim, LLC
Eagle Creek
Farm to Feet
JanSport
Kathmandu
KEEN
MEC
Mountain Hardwear
Mountain Khakis
MSR
Nester Hosiery
ORVIS
Packtowl
Pearl Izumi
Platypus
Point6
prAna
REI
Safety Components Fabric Technologies, Inc.
Salomon
SealLine
Smartwool
Sustainable Down Source (a division of Down Decor)
The North Face
Therm-a-Rest
Timberland
Toad & Co.
W.L. Gore

In 2015, the founder of Swiss certification group certification group Bluesign, Peter Waeber, said he had reservations about the Higg Index because of its reliance on self-assessment. He told WSA: “We’ve had restricted substance lists for 20 years and they don’t work. And I don’t think manufacturing restricted substance lists are a solution either, not in such a complex supply chain. Then we have the Higg Index, which centres on self-assessment and that’s not enough either.”


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