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For the seventh consecutive year, company discloses detailed assessment of sustainability metrics and targets
SPARTANBURG, S.C., April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Diversified global manufacturer Milliken & Company today released its seventh annual sustainability report that discloses performance against its 2025 Sustainability Goals and 2030 net-zero targets. The report details the company's strides across its people, product, planet, net-zero, and business conduct activities.
"Sustainability is at the core of Milliken's business strategy, and our 2024 sustainability report highlights our performance, processes, and progress," said Halsey Cook, president and CEO at Milliken. "The progress we have made would not be possible without the contributions and commitment of our associates, customers, and partners. We recognize that sustainability is a complex challenge and together, we are committed to continuous improvement in our practices."
The 2024 Sustainability Report includes updates on each of Milliken's key impact areas, including:
- People: By focusing on back-to-basics priorities, Milliken reduced lost-time incidents in 2024. The company also achieved its goal of 100,000 volunteer hours a full year ahead of schedule and exceeded its original 2025 volunteer goal by an additional 31,000 hours.
- Product: In 2024, Milliken evaluated 100% of new products using sustainability assessments—a substantial improvement from a 22% baseline reported in 2018— while also becoming the first textile manufacturer to offer non-PFAS materials for all three layers of firefighter turnout gear. In addition, Milliken's N/XT Life™ program and partnership with The Recycling Partnership's Center for Sustainable Behavior and Impact demonstrated the company's support of circular economy concepts.
- Planet: Milliken surpassed its 2025 renewable energy goal in 2022 and continues to explore solutions to expand use of renewable energy to reduce emissions. The company's continued focus on thermal drying biosolids from wastewater treatment and the elimination of coal ash from steam generation have contributed to waste reduction. In 2024, Milliken optimized wastewater treatment processes and targeted various waste streams across its manufacturing locations, leading to a decrease in waste intensity compared to its 2018 baseline.
- Net-Zero: Milliken's 2024 scope 1 and 2 emissions were reduced 42% from its 2018 baseline, nearing the company's 2030 target of a 50% reduction. Since 2018, Milliken has invested more than $35 million in coal elimination with cogeneration, energy efficiency, increased renewable electricity, and modernizing manufacturing operations. The company's efforts to reduce scope 3 emissions include supplier engagement, improving product sustainability data, and sourcing lower-carbon materials.
- Business Conduct: Milliken reaffirmed its commitment to the U.N. Global Compact, pledging to uphold the Ten Principles that focus on human rights, labor standards, environmental protection, and anti-corruption. The company strives to integrate these principles into daily operations and strategy and actively seeks projects that advance these broader developmental goals.
"Milliken's 2024 Sustainability Report reflects our progress and demonstrates our commitment to our sustainability journey," said Kasel Knight, SVP, Chief Legal Officer and head of sustainability at Milliken. "We remain committed to driving positive change and motivated by the strides we've made."
Milliken's 2024 Sustainability Report can be found at milliken.com/sustainability, alongside additional net-zero resources and prior years' reports.
About Milliken
Milliken & Company is a global manufacturing leader whose focus on materials science delivers tomorrow's breakthroughs today. From industry-leading molecules to sustainable innovations, Milliken creates products that enhance people's lives and deliver solutions for its customers and communities. Drawing on thousands of patents and a portfolio with applications across the textile, flooring, chemical and healthcare businesses, the company harnesses a shared sense of integrity and excellence to positively impact the world for generations. Discover more about Milliken's curious minds and inspired solutions at milliken.com and on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
For the seventh consecutive year, company discloses detailed assessment of sustainability metrics and targets
SPARTANBURG, S.C., April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Diversified global manufacturer Milliken & Company today released its seventh annual sustainability report that discloses performance against its 2025 Sustainability Goals and 2030 net-zero targets. The report details the company's strides across its people, product, planet, net-zero, and business conduct activities.
"Sustainability is at the core of Milliken's business strategy, and our 2024 sustainability report highlights our performance, processes, and progress," said Halsey Cook, president and CEO at Milliken. "The progress we have made would not be possible without the contributions and commitment of our associates, customers, and partners. We recognize that sustainability is a complex challenge and together, we are committed to continuous improvement in our practices."
The 2024 Sustainability Report includes updates on each of Milliken's key impact areas, including:
- People: By focusing on back-to-basics priorities, Milliken reduced lost-time incidents in 2024. The company also achieved its goal of 100,000 volunteer hours a full year ahead of schedule and exceeded its original 2025 volunteer goal by an additional 31,000 hours.
- Product: In 2024, Milliken evaluated 100% of new products using sustainability assessments—a substantial improvement from a 22% baseline reported in 2018— while also becoming the first textile manufacturer to offer non-PFAS materials for all three layers of firefighter turnout gear. In addition, Milliken's N/XT Life™ program and partnership with The Recycling Partnership's Center for Sustainable Behavior and Impact demonstrated the company's support of circular economy concepts.
- Planet: Milliken surpassed its 2025 renewable energy goal in 2022 and continues to explore solutions to expand use of renewable energy to reduce emissions. The company's continued focus on thermal drying biosolids from wastewater treatment and the elimination of coal ash from steam generation have contributed to waste reduction. In 2024, Milliken optimized wastewater treatment processes and targeted various waste streams across its manufacturing locations, leading to a decrease in waste intensity compared to its 2018 baseline.
- Net-Zero: Milliken's 2024 scope 1 and 2 emissions were reduced 42% from its 2018 baseline, nearing the company's 2030 target of a 50% reduction. Since 2018, Milliken has invested more than $35 million in coal elimination with cogeneration, energy efficiency, increased renewable electricity, and modernizing manufacturing operations. The company's efforts to reduce scope 3 emissions include supplier engagement, improving product sustainability data, and sourcing lower-carbon materials.
- Business Conduct: Milliken reaffirmed its commitment to the U.N. Global Compact, pledging to uphold the Ten Principles that focus on human rights, labor standards, environmental protection, and anti-corruption. The company strives to integrate these principles into daily operations and strategy and actively seeks projects that advance these broader developmental goals.
"Milliken's 2024 Sustainability Report reflects our progress and demonstrates our commitment to our sustainability journey," said Kasel Knight, SVP, Chief Legal Officer and head of sustainability at Milliken. "We remain committed to driving positive change and motivated by the strides we've made."
Milliken's 2024 Sustainability Report can be found at milliken.com/sustainability, alongside additional net-zero resources and prior years' reports.
About Milliken
Milliken & Company is a global manufacturing leader whose focus on materials science delivers tomorrow's breakthroughs today. From industry-leading molecules to sustainable innovations, Milliken creates products that enhance people's lives and deliver solutions for its customers and communities. Drawing on thousands of patents and a portfolio with applications across the textile, flooring, chemical and healthcare businesses, the company harnesses a shared sense of integrity and excellence to positively impact the world for generations. Discover more about Milliken's curious minds and inspired solutions at milliken.com and on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
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Milliken & Company Releases 2024 Sustainability Report
SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A world-famous annual ice fishing festival kicked off Saturday in a remote mountain town in the northeastern province of Gangwon, offering weeks of ice fishing and seasonal activities.
The 2026 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival will run through Feb. 1 in Hwacheon, just 25 kilometers south of the inter-Korean border and about 90 km northeast of Seoul.
"Sancheoneo" is a species of trout known to live only in very clean fresh water.
Visitors from all over the nation arrived at the 300,000-square-meter festival ground -- roughly the size of around 40 football pitches -- from early morning.
"(We) will do our best to ensure safety and so that the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival can become a winter festival enjoyed by everyone around the world beyond the Republic of Korea," Hwacheon Gov. Choi Moon-soon said at the opening ceremony.
This year's festival is expected to attract more than 100,000 foreign visitors, turning Hwacheon, with a population of 22,370, into a global wintertime festival city.
Launched in 2003, the event was chosen as the nation's best festival by the culture ministry in 2010 and had drawn more than 1 million visitors for 13 straight years, from 2006 to 2019.
Last year's event attracted over 1.86 million visitors, surpassing the previous record of 1.84 million set in 2019. Among the attendees, 122,000 were foreign visitors -- significantly higher than the 85,000 recorded the previous year.
The annual winter festival has previously made headlines worldwide, with thousands of tourists trying to fish for sancheoneo through holes cut into the surface of a vast frozen river and taking part in bare-hand fishing, sledding, ice soccer and other events.
Other hands-on activities that allow visitors to fully enjoy the snow and ice this year will include sledding on a 40-meter slope and on a 60-meter section of a frozen river, riding a family-friendly "ice bobsleigh" made by the Hwacheon County Office down a spiral-shaped tube, curling and figure skating.
The Seohwasan Multipurpose Indoor Plaza, another key venue of the festival, will feature a miniature version of the Harbin Ice and Snow World, a world-renowned ice and snow festival, while about 30 ice lantern makers from Harbin will showcase the pinnacle of ice art at the Indoor Ice Sculpture Plaza.
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World-renowned ice fishing festival kicks off in Hwacheon
