We want to help reduce the impact of our customers’ journeys by offering durable, high-quality products, increasing our use of more sustainable materials and production processes, and designing for repairability and recyclability.
As the world fully resumes travelling, we want to do our part and help reduce the impact of our customers’ journeys by offering them sustainably designed products: built to last, made efficiently and with recycled or renewable materials, easily repaired rather than replaced, and able to be recycled or repurposed at end of life. Ultimately, we want to be able to close the loop, where possible, by re-using materials from old products to make new ones.
The largest case in our new collection is made from recycled polypropylene equivalent to 483 yogurt cups, and recycled PET from 14 plastic bottles.
Since 2018, we have diverted more than 200 million 500ml PET bottles from landfill through the use of our Recyclex™ Material Technology.
We consider more than just the embodied carbon in the material itself:
We prioritize solutions that reduce the carbon footprint of a product over its entire lifecycle.
The environmental impacts of Gregory’s new Rhune backpack range have been reduced by up to 57% compared to the same products made from conventional (virgin) nylon.
The Samsonite Essens collection is the brand’s most sustainable suitcase yet. The shells are made with at least 70% recycled polypropylene from post-consumer waste, and the interior lining and webbing are made with 97% and 100% recycled PET respectively.
Gregory’s Deva and Baltoro collections saw a carbon footprint reduction in 2022 of 31% by using recycled materials and eliminating 50% of the HDPE of previous design.
American Tourister’s new Urban Track range, launched in 2022, is our first duffle bag collection made fully from recycled materials. The large-wheeled duffle uses an amount of rPET equivalent to up to 42 recycled plastic bottles.
Tumi relaunched its iconic Alpha Bravo collection with recycled nylon. It also uses rPET in the interior linings, exterior and interior webbing – and even zipper tapes.
In 2022, we expanded our We Recycle Your Suitcase promotion in Belgium and the Netherlands. The invitation was simple: bring in a hard-side case from any brand, we’ll recycle it, and give you €20 towards a new Samsonite product. Over 1,290 cases were brought in for recycling and the hard shells were turned into non-food packaging material.
In Malaysia and Indonesia, we promoted two product takeback campaigns with our partner WWF that recycled over 4,300 cases from customers into new, useful products including flower pots and paving blocks.
The new Essens collection is Samsonite’s most sustainable suitcase yet. The shells are made with at least 70% recycled polypropylene from post-consumer waste, and the interior lining and webbing are made with 97% and 100% recycled PET respectively. For the largest case this is the equivalent of 466 yogurt cups and 16 5-liter bottles. These materials are part of Samsonite’s Recyclex™ Material Technology initiative.
ESSENS marks another important milestone in our sustainable journey. It’s the first collection where we have applied circular design principles from the start, taking into account the full life cycle of the product and optimizing it to have the lowest impact on our planet."
We have published an Environmental, Social and Governance Report since 2016 and continue to share our progress on an annual basis.
You will also find our statement on Modern Slavery in this section.
