OrthoLite Achieves Brand Partner Milestone

OrthoLite, a category founder and global leader of sustainable, performance and comfort insoles and footwear materials solutions for more than 25 years, celebrates a milestone as it welcomes its 500th footwear brand partner.

OrthoLite is now the insole supplier of choice for 500 footwear brands worldwide, across all categories – athletic, running, comfort, golf, lifestyle, and fashion, and OrthoLite insoles are found in more than 500 million pairs of shoes every year. OrthoLite pioneered open-cell comfort technologies, and the company did so with recycled post-production waste since its inception in 1997.

OrthoLite has a history of meaningful partnerships that demonstrate a commitment to supporting its brand partners, customers, consumers and the footwear industry. From day one, OrthoLite’s mission was simple: To help brands make better, more comfortable shoes through a highly collaborative, customer-first approach to partnership.

Glenn Barrett, the founder of OrthoLite, introduced the world’s first high-performance, open-cell foam PU insole that delivered a cooler, drier, healthier and more comfortable interior environment in the shoe. OrthoLite’s insole solution would raise the quality and comfort standards across the board for the entire global footwear industry.

Thanks to its brand partners, OrthoLite has grown from category founder to a leading supplier of open-cell foam technology. In 2022, OrthoLite introduced OrthoLite Cirql, the patented, revolutionary alternative to conventional EVA plastics that provides footwear brands and their factory partners with the most innovative and truly circular choice in materials.

OrthoLite’s abundance of quality partnerships and the brands’ mutual success is underscored by innovation through collaboration. Beyond the collaboration with its brand partners, OrthoLite has tightly woven cross-functional teams internally.

To learn more about OrthoLite, visit www.ortholite.com.