Safety footwear entrepreneur Emily Soloby is adding her voice to the call for employers to make sure shoes and boots for women fit properly.
In 2023, the US government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulatory agency launched a new proposal. It wants to revise the current standard for personal protective equipment...
Even within the leather making sector, the preference for hide purchases based on area instead of weight have been the subject of both debate and investigation.
Glutaraldehyde (GTA) is an aldehyde that can be used as an alternative to chrome tanning. In July 2021, it was listed on the SVHC (substances of very high concern) candidate list due to its respiratory...
A small number of very high-profile tanners have begun to add mycelium-based materials to their product offerings, not as a competitor to leather but as a much-needed replacement for plastic.
As adidas embarks on its next chapter under the direction of a slightly surprising new chief executive, we take a look at why good sportsmanship will prove essential as the company navigates its next steps.
Since its publication of a carbon footprint report in 2021 that showed leather in a poor light, shoe company Veja has worked hard to improve its knowledge of the leather value chain, with encouraging results.
With the launch of a hands-free children’s footwear line, Kizik’s signature collapsible heel has simplified the act of putting on shoes for all ages and abilities.
A revamped format for the ISPO Award programme has given footwear its own category. In 2022, 12 different shoe, boot and footwear technology ideas were among the winners.
Back in 2017 The Economist made a bold statement in declaring that the world’s most valuable resource was no longer oil but data, a commodity in a lucrative, fast-growing industry very much like oil was a...
Women have always favoured high heels for a number of reasons. As they are usually smaller in stature than men, high heels make them taller and this makes them feel more confident and empowered.
2022 was supposed to be the year of ‘lift off’ after the 2021 partial bounce back from covid and a general reaching of pre-covid levels of production and consumption.
Founder of Brazilian footwear group Beira Rio, Roberto Argenta, ran for election as governor of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in October. His bid to hold high office fell short, meaning he can turn his...
It has been reported that a recent study in South Africa found that school shoes currently available at retail were not suitable for the habitually barefoot population studied.
Brands are giving themselves plenty of time to bring circular footwear programmes to market, but, for innovative companies in the shoe supply chain, work to develop the materials those programmes will need is...
It only became a player in the $30 billion global market for MEG (mono-ethylene glycol) recently, but UPM Biochemicals is determined to drive change immediately by using bio-based raw materials to make this...
A safety footwear brand that pioneered the widespread use of steel-toe boots in the 1940s has been relaunched and is reclaiming its Northamptonshire roots.
The Netherlands’ important shoemaking and leatherworking heritage will be preserved in a spectacularly revamped museum after a turnaround by Waalwijk’s officials.
Unless there are immediate, rapid, and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to 1.5°C will be impossible, with catastrophic consequences for people and the planet on which we...
In the same way that Formula 1 racing cars serve as test beds for new automotive materials and technologies, so the sports shoe sector of the footwear industry has been instrumental in formulating new concepts ...
Companies have become familiar with the concept of Industry 4.0, the fourth stage in the evolutionary path that, starting at the dawn of industrialisation, transformed manufacturing into the digital process...
Running and ski mountaineering star Kílian Jornet has launched a new footwear, clothing and accessories brand with Mallorca-based footwear group Camper.
Adidas’ director of footwear innovation, Arnau Sanjuan, tells World Footwear how software program Gravity Sketch is changing his approach to shoe design.