Sustainability
From Pollution to Performance: On Scales the First EVA Midsole Made Using Captured Carbon Emissions to Over a Million
Today, the Swiss premium sportswear brand On launches the Cloud X 5, one of the brand’s most popular footwear styles with a midsole featuring CleanCloud™. A breakthrough technology with more than 80% lower modeled carbon impact than conventional fossil-based EVA under the LCA’s credit approach. This marks the first time a sportswear brand has successfully created an EVA midsole made using captured carbon emissions and scaled it to over a million pairs, hitting its commercial target four years ahead of schedule.
On’s 2025 Impact Progress Report: On Shares Lessons in Impact from its 15-Year Journey
The report shares key wins while leaning into the brand’s toughest challenges — minimizing its environmental impact in harmony with rapid growth, scaling circularity, and advancing living wages and social conditions in its supply chain to strive toward leaving a better footprint behind.
On Publishes First Global Materials Policy to Uphold Responsible Sourcing
On introduces its first-ever Materials Policy, setting out a formal commitment to the responsible use of materials and ensuring all animal-derived materials meet rigorous welfare standards. The move signals an emphasis on transparency, integrity and highest quality, doubling-down on its premium brand positioning.
On Takes the Next Step in its Journey Toward Circularity – Aiming to Take Responsibility for Every Product it Sells
By transitioning our Cyclon™ subscription model to a circular services program, the brand enables customers in select markets to shop refurbished items and trade in used gear for credit toward future purchases, helping keep products moving and out of landfills.
On Marks a Notable Step in its Journey towards Circularity with the Launch of the Cloudrise Cyclon 1.1
New performance running shoe features a Speedboard® created from recycled Cloudneo shoes and leftover materials from the manufacturing process, marking an important step in On’s circularity program.
Swiss Sportswear Brand On Unveils LightSpray™: a new High Performance Upper technology crafted by a Revolutionary single step Manufacturing Process
LightSpray™ ultralight uppers are sprayed not built, in a process that reduces CO2 emissions, paving the way for a circular future and faster, localized manufacturing LightSpray™ is set to revolutionize performance uppers in the same way On CloudTecⓇ transformed midsoles, introducing a completely new design aesthetic and feel
Swiss sportswear brand On expands its circularity program with the new Cloudrise Cyclon and Cloudeasy Cyclon, featuring an innovative fiber-to-fiber recycling technology developed by Loop Industries
The Cloudrise Cyclon and Cloudeasy Cyclon are designed for runners and all-day wear and complement the current Cyclon offering. The Cloudrise is made with castor beans, while the Cloudeasy upper is crafted from yarn made with Loop's 100% recycled polyester fiber using the Infinite Loop™ technology.