FEATURE
"WE AIM TO REDEFINE PERFORMANCE
BEYOND TECHNICAL PRODUCT FEATURES TO THE BENEFIT OF
BOTH PEOPLE AND THE PLANET."
THE SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK CAN BE SUMMARISED AS A SIMPLE EQUATION:
For Gore Products for Professional Use Division, protecting people stands for improving societal value and ensuring a fair and safe working place. Protecting the planet stands for reducing contributions to climate change and chemical impacts, including STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX, bluesign system partner, ISO14001 and a commitment to further reduce or eliminate PFCs of environmental concern. It’s also important to create sustainable product innovations with a low environmental footprint, for example, through using solution dyed yarns and recycled materials.
Prolonging product life means maximising product durability by applying a scientific Life Cycle approach (ISO 14044) and pursuing initiatives that help extend material life, such as implementing a new Life Cycle Costing model and supporting leasing or rental businesses. The heart of the new sustainability framework within the Gore Technical Fabrics business unit is finally characterised by its ongoing efforts to prolong the wellbeing of people. This means providing the optimised balance of comfort and protection and thus extending the time emergency services and defence service people can operate in the field, doing their jobs to support or protect others.
Dave Welch, Gore Global Business Leader for the Technical Oriented Fabrics Division, said: “Together with our customers, we are committed to provide protective fabric technology for those whose jobs are to support or protect people – often under extreme weather or even life-threatening conditions. Therefore, all our initiatives to protect the planet need to be balanced with product performance to avoid compromising the important work first responders, technical rescue, fire fighters and defence personnel do – for the benefit of all of us.”
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