W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) has published its 2020 Responsibility Update for the Fabrics Division.
The report shares details on how the division plans to leverage its sustainability framework by using sound science, transparency and cooperation with others to provide innovative solutions to customers and the industry.
In addition, the update includes an interview with the leaders of the Consumer Oriented Fabrics (COF) and Technical Oriented Fabrics (TOF) businesses who share how they plan to implement the new framework and use it to help strengthen the importance of sustainability to the Gore Fabrics Division.
Gore Fabrics Division milestones from 2020 include:
• Setting absolute carbon-reduction goals established to support achieving climate neutrality by 2050 and to help contribute to the global effort toward mitigating climate change.
• The achievement of goals set three years ago to have 85 percent of consumer garments laminates approved by bluesign and 100 percent of consumer garments laminates certified under OEKO-TEX Standard 100.
• The culmination of a three-year effort to triple the number of GORE-TEX laminates (to more than 150) that use textiles with recycled content and solution dyed-yarn.
• Sharing of environmental footprint data of the GORE-TEX consumer garments laminates through the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (MSI), helping customers make informed decisions.
• Use of the Higg Facility Tools, implemented to increase transparency around environmental and social impacts at Gore Fabrics manufacturing sites.
• The signing of the Manifesto of the international initiative “S.O.S. SOIL – Save Organics in Soil” by the Solid Waste Treatment Team of the TOF business, with a goal to encourage climate-proof soil management practices.
• Updated the progress towards the elimination of PFCs of Environmental Concern (PFCEC) from Gore Fabrics Division consumer products.
The division believes these initiatives and collaborations are important as it strives to make a difference to the planet and people. Using decades of scientific knowledge, research and development and testing, the Gore Fabrics Division will continue to drive environmentally improved material innovations that deliver an optimized combination of high performance with a low environmental footprint.
