Operational Excellence

PrimaLoft continues to rely on a global network of contract manufacturers, partnering with facilities across Asia, Europe and North America. This asset-light model aligns perfectly with our company’s Relentlessly Responsible™ mission to reduce our impact on the environment, while also reducing lead times and transit costs.

We are able to strategically align our production locations so that they are physically close to our customers’ garment factories. This allows us to reduce the emissions associated with the transportation of our products through reduced transit distance and times.

New contract manufacturer in Padua, Italy

In 2022, we onboarded a new contract manufacturer in Padua, Italy, to better serve our European brand partners. Qualified to produce some of our most popular products, this new facility allows for better lead times for EU-to-EU shipments, reduced costs, and a reduced carbon footprint, compared to shipping from facilities in Asia.

0.145 kg CO2 is saved for every kg of product shipped

29% 25%CO2red

In 2022, our top two contract manufacturers shipped an average of 60% of shipments within their region. This shipment strategy results in an approximately 25% reduction in CO2 emissions.*

Essential Compliance Certifications Continue to Grow

When establishing partnerships with manufacturing facilities, comprehensive social and sustainability compliance certifications are an essential consideration.

PrimaLoft and our partners work together to protect the health, safety, and fundamental rights of our partner employees, and to protect and enhance the community and environment in which they operate. To do this, we use compliance and certification audits that are executed by certifying bodies.

bluesign® is a holistic system that provides solutions in sustainable processing and manufacturing to industries and brands. As an independent authority, bluesign® checks the progress that a company has made in this effort, provides consistent development of solutions, and continuously optimizes its criteria.

PrimaLoft currently holds bluesign® certification at 7 contract manufacturer locations.

Our contract manufacturers go through an in-depth assessment audit every 1-3 years. If concerning non-conformances are found, the site is required to resolve them with a corrective action before certification can be granted.

OceanCycle provides a 100% independent, third-party certification of ocean-bound plastics recycling supply chains to ensure that they meet international quality, ethical, environmental, and labor standards.

Ocean-bound plastic is defined as plastic waste recovered from within 50 km (30 miles) of an ocean coastline or major waterway that feeds into the ocean in a geographic region that lacks formal waste management. Except in the case of a sea, material collected from major waterways may be no further than 200 km from the mouth or end point of that waterway.

Our contract manufacturers go through Global Recycled Standard certification on an annual basis. We currently have 8 locations that are GRS certified, as well as our Latham and Xiamen PrimaLoft offices.

In addition, locations also go through a social compliance review as part of this annual audit to ensure workers are treated fairly and factory management is following proper standards.

Our China, Taiwan and Italian manufacturing facilities are each audited annually for RDS certification.

A third-party certifying body executes audits at the factory level to ensure down is being sourced in an ethical manner. RDS requires no live plucking or force feeding, ethical treatment of duck and geese, as well as full transparency and traceability behind all down being sourced.