No matter whether you simply enjoy nature and spend your leisure hours outdoors, or cross fields, forests, and mountains: LOWA is at your side – from outdoor adventures through to more challenging expeditions, always reliable and aware of our responsibilities.
Few sectors are linked so closely to nature and the environment as the outdoor industry. As a mountain sports brand, LOWA lives with and from nature – and consequently wants to offer its customers the best possible outdoor experience with its products. For us, this means assuming responsibility.
We use high-quality materials, which means they are able to stand up to high levels of stress and strain. But being high quality is not just about being durable and robust. It also means being safe for both human health and the environment. This applies not just to the end product. Production must also be carried out under fair and eco-friendly conditions. This is why we rely on high environmental and social standards when producing our products. We orient ourselves on internationally applicable standards and agreements that safeguard and guarantee human, environmental and labour rights around the world.
Our commitment to fair working conditions throughout our supply chain has a great deal to do with our company culture. We have set out our ethical, environmental and social standards in the LOWA Code of Conduct. These guidelines apply to all of our production sites both within and outside of Germany, whether our own facilities or those of our contractors, suppliers and business partners.
Here you can find out more about what we are doing in the different areas of CR:
The people behind the brand
Without the commitment of our more than 2,000 employees, the 100-year success story of our company would simply not be …
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Living from and with nature
Nature provides us with the setting for our outdoor activities, and protecting nature is thus fundamental to our …
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Trust, honesty and respect.
Trust, honesty and respect. – These values guide us in our daily dealings with our employees and customers. They apply …
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Materials, durability and repair
When it comes to our products, we at LOWA focus on perfect fit, a high level of functionality, a contemporary design …
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“Made in Europe” – With one exception
As an industry leader operating in the age of globalisation, LOWA applies a philosophy of “Made in Europe” to guarantee …
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Our philosophy
With this mission statement, we aim to provide our staff and other stakeholders with a clear overview of what LOWA …
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Our social and cultural initiatives at national and international level
Working together with a number of partners and athletes, we endeavour to help disadvantaged individuals around the …
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Tradition and innovation since 1923
LOWA is a company with a long tradition based in the Bavarian town of Jetzendorf. What started off as a small …
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Our customers want to know where their product comes from, how and under what conditions it was manufactured, and what materials it contains. And rightly so. We aim to be able to answer these questions with honesty and transparency.
Based on our many years of experience in the area of corporate responsibility, we have developed a CR strategy going up to 2027. Our aim is to continue improving and to become even more transparent about how we take responsibility.
The first step towards more transparency in our supply chain is to gather plenty of data. This is why we have been carrying out internal audits of our production sites for a number of years now. The aim is to verify each site’s compliance with the strict guidelines set out in the LOWA Code of Conduct. In 2022, we went a step further and brought in additional third-party audits of our sites. We have been a member of the Fair Wear Foundation since the beginning of 2023.
We have merged our environmental and quality management with our occupational health and safety department, and we hope this will bring about improvement and greater efficiency. We are planning an integrated management system here which will be certified in accordance with ISO 45001.
Our strategy is embedded in the commitment of our parent company, the TECNICA Group. It is a signatory to the UN Global Compact and has committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The implementation of our strategy will help us to further improve in the areas of environment, social affairs and governance and to present our commitment even more transparently.
According to current figures (Corporate Carbon Footprint or CCF), we will make a proportionate contribution to achieving the Paris Agreement. We have a range of initiatives in this area including Lifecycle Assessments (LCAs) and Product Carbon Footprints. We are aiming to include Scope 3 emissions in our Greenhouse Gas Reporting (GHG) by 2027.
We have defined concrete projects and set ourselves ambitious goals in the following areas:
CR management at LOWA has been placed within the company’s management team. Alexander Nicolai is the corporate responsibility officer for the management team and oversees all CR activities. The CR manager is Ingmar Anderson; he and his team report directly to company management.
