Creating sustainable value chains has been our core activity for more than 20 years. We have developed a proven structured approach to designing effective business solutions and helping our clients implement them.
Aidenvironment
At the core of the Fair Rubber Association is the cooperation between members with commercial interests and others, who have no financial interest of their own but are keen to support the concept
of Fair Trade. Both share the aim of thus trying to help disadvantaged rubber producers improve their working and living conditions.
Following is a list of member companies and organizations and supporting members (individual members are not listed).
Members can access the member's area (password protected) here.
Creating sustainable value chains has been our core activity for more than 20 years. We have developed a proven structured approach to designing effective business solutions and helping our clients implement them.
AidenvironmentCPR is considered a pioneer among condom producers, having been the first condom manufacturer to source Fairly Traded latex for their production process.
CPRThe Fair Squared brand was founded in Newcastle (UK) in 2011. Worldwide it is one of the first companies to offer cosmetics with the Fairtrade label. Fair Squared condoms made from Fairly Traded latex are on sale all over Europe. These condoms are produced without any ingredients from animal sources, which, in addition to the Fair Rubber Association label, allows Fair Squared condoms to be certified by the Vegan Society, too.
FairsquaredFounded by traveler Kyle Berner in 2008, Feelgoodz is a casual lifestyle brand that creates high quality footwear featuring ethically sourced natural rubber, genuine leather, and handwoven textiles. Your purchase helps us sustain employment for the crafts of rubber tapping, fabric weaving, and shoemaking. Feelgoodz is working hard to integrate its supply chains with the Fair Rubber Association regulations on Fairly Traded natural rubber.
FeelgoodzGlobal Nature Fund (GNF) is a not-for-profit, private international foundation based in Germany. GNF develops concepts and projects worldwide for the protection of the environment and nature. The foundation supports the private sector in establishing business models and sourcing policies which contribute to the sustainable use of resources – including natural rubber – and to the conservation of biological diversity.
Global Nature FundLiberty Asia seeks to identify ways to disrupt the environment in which slavery and exploitation thrives and to that end focuses on mechanisms that gather and provide relevant information and data to various stakeholders in society, such as the private sector, legal industry and law enforcement, whose actions will cause a systemic reduction in potential and existing abuses.
Liberty AsiaICB Group is an Australien company that has been supplying latex gloves to supermarkets under the Hygiene Plus brand for over 20 years. Their new Sustain range is both Fair Rubber and FSC certified.
ICBRalf Bohle GmbH with its Schwalbe brand is the European market leader for bicycle tires. The company has subsidiaries and distribution partners in about 60 countries. More than 140 members of staff are employed at Ralf Bohle GmbH in Reichshof, and 60 additional employees are working at five subsidiaries in Europe and North America. The third-generation family-run company is at the forefront of innovation, introducing technologies such as the first “flat-less” bicycle tire, Schwalbe Marathon Plus. Since 1973, the Korean family-run company Hung-A has been the production partner of Ralf Bohle GmbH. The two Schwalbe factories operate as a joint venture in Indonesia and Vietnam. Both companies are not only business partners – they also look back on more than 45 years of close friendship. This is unique in the industry. In cooperation with the scientific research and consultancy institute EPEA in Hamburg, which is known for its Cradle to Cradle design concept, Ralf Bohle GmbH has been able to implement several “Green Milestones” over the past few years. This includes the introduction of a recycling system for bicycle tubes, a type of tread rubber solely made of renewable and recycled raw materials as well as a puncture protection belt of which a third is made of recycled natural rubber. The next step is to harmonise supply chains with the criteria of the Fair Rubber Association.
SCHWALBEWeber & Schaer is one of the oldest trading houses for natural rubber. The family-run business was founded in 1844 and has been selling rubber for almost 150 years. Nowadays we offer an almost complete portfolio for the rubber industry, including several services, e.g. our own laboratory for development of new products together with our suppliers and customers. Our transport department can organize the complete supply chain. The latest project is the development of a sustainable, transparent supply chain in the sense of FSC Chain of Custody for non-timber-forest-products.
Weber & SchaerKarex is the global leader in condom manufacturing with an annual capacity in excess of 5 billion pieces, offering an unparalleled reach with the ability to export our products to more than 140 countries around the World. Karex began manufacturing condoms in 1988, providing us with more than 30 years of unsurpassed experience in the industry. Our 4 state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities are located across Malaysia and Thailand, close to the freshest high-quality rubber sources, and are staffed by almost 3,000 dedicated employees. Our vision is to continuously build an organization that responds to the changing views of sexual health and wellness, by developing products that inspire people to make better, healthier choices. We champion social responsibility and sustainability, not just as moral imperatives but to build stronger, long-lasting relationships with our customers.
KarexOlli was founded in 2015 with the aim to introduce Fairly Traded flip flops to the US. Every pair of shoes purchased contributes to better working conditions, e.g. medical care, for the rubber workers and their families. Olli works with ethical, sustainable suppliers, so that our customers can buy with confidence. We look forward to expanding to other shoes with rubber soles in future.
OlliPROLANA has been producing mattresses and bedding since 1987. The principles of the company are: Products of the finest quality, produced with natural materials like wool, cotton, silk, and latex, all sourced (as far as possible) from certified sustainable production systems and under Fair Trade conditions.
ProlanaSource Atlantique is the largest independent importer/master distributor of specialty foods in the United States. If You Care (which includes household gloves made from natural rubber) is Source Atlantique’s largest and fastest-growing brand and is sold through major distribution channels such as specialty retailers, supermarket chains, natural foods stores and independent food co-ops.
Source AtlantiqueSustain is the first sustainable, Fair Trade brand of condoms in the US marketed, first and foremost, to women. Sustain is on a mission to help women take charge of their sexual health by purchasing, carrying and using condoms. Sustain is certified to be vegan, not tested on animals and is free of the carcinogenic chemical nitrosamine.
SustainTimberfarm started planting rubber trees in Panama in 2012 on degraded land. In the autumn of 2017, harvesting was done for the first time. Currently, Timberfarm is also building a factory to process the rubber. Timberfarm aims to pay fair wages to workers, and wants to see others to follow. It is active in the Sustainable Natural Rubber Initiative (SNR-i) of the International Rubber Study Group. Timberfarm is a supporting member of Fair Rubber.
TimberfarmVerité aims to ensure that globalization is made to work for poor and vulnerable people around the world. We ensure that powerful institutions, and particularly the private sector, take responsibility for solving human rights problems where goods are made and crops are grown. The impact of our work is tangible: more income for workers and harvesters; increased opportunities for women, minorities and migrants; protection for children and those in forced labor; safer working conditions in factories, farms, fisheries and mines; and empowerment for workers and harvesters.
VeritéHippobloo Europe is a phlip phlop brand, responsible, ecological and solidary. Buying a pair of Hippobloo phlip phlops contributes in taking care of our planet, from being biodegradable, but also for the workers who harvest natural rubber at all stages of the manufacturing chain by improving their working conditions, maintaining stable jobs and providing better income. This is our vision of fair trade.
HippoblooAt Corrie MacColl, we take a modern approach to fair and sustainable value creation in the origination and distribution of the vital material that is natural rubber. As a sustainable model corporate citizen, we are extensively invested in ecological conservation, economic and social development. Our rubber is grown, sourced and produced to the highest quality, matching supply and demand with as little impact as possible. We are consciously positioned to serve today’s rubber consumer through our customer centric merchandising model. Demand for made-to-measure rubber for use in diverse, premium and specialty applications is fulfilled by our entrenched position in key distribution markets and custom-made delivery programmes to customers. Our products are delivered to over 1,000 customers in 350 cities through our second-to-none logistical assets, flanked by our dedicated technical advisory and support unit.
Corrie MacCollPo-Zu is an award-winning ethical footwear brand, combining supreme comfort with sustainable materials like organic cotton, cork, Pinatex™ (pineapple leather), wool, natural latex and chromefree leather. Po-Zu was launched in 2006 by Sven Segal, and are currently ranked as the UK’s Number 1 Ethical Shoe Brand by The Ethical Company Organisation. Safia Minney MBE, founder of People Tree, recently joined the company as Managing Director to bring her expertise in brand building and supply chain development to the company. Po-Zu is expanding its market globally. It is a premium and high quality collection, currently handmade entirely in Portugal.
Po-ZuCLASS OVER MASS. At the day’s end, everyone likes to lie down on a fair trade mattress and to drift off into the Land of Nod with the pillow’s relaxing scent. The specialists in bed and home decor stock a range of sustainable goods, catering to their consumer-conscious customers, such as fair trade matresses, pillows, Birkenstock and organic bedlinen. Here, class rules over mass.
sleepgreenWAVES is a fun, chic and colorful Sri Lankan made flip flop collection named after the beauty of Sri Lanka. Devoted to leave no scars on the very nature that inspires us, the substances and the activities used in the making of Waves are selected with utmost care. Therefore, Waves is crafted entirely from genuine Sri Lankan rubber grown in the fertile slopes that run parallel to the rolling hills of the island. This rubber is harvested, treated and crafted into comfortable flip-flops using material and processes that meet the highest compliances and leave no trace on the natural world around us. This has placed Waves among the rare few all-natural rubber flip-flops in the world. With the average flip-flops contributing to a massive component of the plastic waste that goes into landfill and our oceans, Waves takes a stand against contaminating nature's life fluid that nourishes us all. With our farmers, harvesters, makers, technicians and craftsmen, Waves embraces one of the most beautiful facets of Sri Lanka- her people. Our rubber is sourced from faraway plantations that employ people from local villages. This is what makes wearing Waves a much bigger experience than slipping on a pair of average flip-flops. Because, when you wear a pair of Waves, you become part of paradise. When you wear a pair of Waves you take a stand to protect nature’s pristine unfolding and safeguard it for tomorrow. When you wear a pair of Waves you touch the lives of many Sri Lankans from farmers, makers to harvesters and help them build their families.
Waves