NIKE, Inc. today announces a strategic partnership with Swiss company bluesign technologies to accelerate the supply of sustainable materials and chemistries for use in NIKE, Inc. products.
This strategic partnership unlocks the potential for bluesign technologies’ industry-leading assessment tools to become accessible to materials suppliers, at an unprecedented scale and pace. Previously, to access these tools and data, a brand needed to take its supply chain through individual factory assessments. For an out-sourced global supply chain of Nike’s size, that would require significant investment and a number of years. The agreement opens access to bluesign technologies’ key tools and data for an expanded supplier base at nominal cost.
bluesign technologies will provide Nike’s supply chain with access to two innovative tools — the bluesign® bluefinder and the bluesign® blueguide. The tools will be rolled out across NIKE Inc.’s global supply chain, which spans nearly 50 countries and more than 800 contracted factories, with hundreds of textile manufacturers supplying the factories making Nike products.