Nike has announced a strategic partnership with Swiss company bluesign technologies to accelerate the supply of sustainable materials and chemistries for use in its products. The 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 new agreement opens access to bluesign technologies’ key tools and data for an expanded supplier base at nominal cost.

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