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 Environment
and Future
At
Woolpower® our ambition is to offer the future’s
best protective clothing. As a garment manufacturer, we must naturally
take responsibility for improving the selection of protective and
occupational clothing and for making tomorrow’s recreational
and working life as safe and pleasant as possible.
In
working to develop Woolpower®, our aim is to create
even better products by refining the raw materials and devising
new processing methods. Research institutes, universities, raw material
producers, machinery suppliers and wearers of Woolpower®
worldwide are our source of knowledge for the future.
Quality
and Environmental Assurance
Quality
and environmental thinking are a natural part of our day-to-day
work. Today we comply with the rules for quality assurance according
to ISO 9000 and our goal is to obtain ISO 14000 certification within
a few years.Environmental
issues in the industry are closely observed and followed up on location.
In 1997 Woolpower® carried out a Clean Wool Expedition
in which wool as a raw material was studied in Australia and New
Zealand.
 Environmentally
Adapted Methods
In
the textile industry we are aware that traditional processing of
raw wool affects the environment in several ways. There are solutions
to most of the environmental problems associated with wool production.
Environmentally
friendly production methods allow natural resources to be utilized
in a sustainable manner, for example by avoiding overgrazing and
preserving vegetation and harmful insects are combatted with manual
and biological methods.
Problems
related to wool washing can be dealt with through better waste management,
environmentally adapted washing agents and composting of organic
waste material. To make the wool machine washable, the raw material
is treated with a chlorine compound before spinning. The industry
is engaged in intensive research to find a better and more environmentally
friendly technique. Woolpower® is following this
development with keen interest.
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