Responsible manufacturing

Principles of responsible product development and environmentally-conscious production

Preamble:

For over 100 years, our customers have placed their trust in COLLONIL when it comes to shoe and leather care. They rely on the maximum quality and reliability of our products. We are committed to this tradition – and use our innovative strength to openly meet the demands of our customers every day anew. We also want to live up to this claim with regard to the environmental compatibility of our products. That is why this voluntary declaration documents our principles for responsible product development and environmentally-conscious production.

Obligation:

COLLONIL products combine the highest possible effectiveness with the best possible environmental compatibility. Our goal is to develop products that contain the lowest possible proportion of environmentally harmful ingredients while being as effective as possible.

Whenever possible, we use natural ingredients such as natural waxes and oils in our products.

Our focus is on developing products that are as water-based and therefore solvent-free as possible. However, in order to guarantee optimum effectiveness and at the same time ensure a high degree of user-friendliness, we cannot do without solvents for certain products. In these cases, we only use high-purity petrol. We are also increasingly using sugar surfactants that are produced on the basis of renewable raw materials.

Our impregnation products help to ensure that materials remain as good as new for longer and do not need to be replaced so quickly.

They are produced responsibly and are safe to use. In compliance with general usage and disposal regulations, none of our products pose a health risk to consumers or a risk to the environment.

Collonil has not used PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) and PFOS (perfluorooctanesulfonic acid) for decades.

It is a matter close to our hearts to continuously improve our formulations. In order to further optimise the consumption of resources and to treat the environment responsibly, we will significantly increase the range of applications for PFAS-free formulations. PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are synthetic, non-degradable chemicals with water-, dirt- and grease-repellent properties.

PFAS-free formulations have been in use at Collonil since 2016.

We have set ourselves the target of completely eliminating PFAS formulations by the second quarter of 2024.

Our customers will continue to be able to rely on the effectiveness and quality of COLLONIL products in the future. We are constantly developing them responsibly, optimising their effectiveness according to the latest state of the art and keeping the environment in mind.