Now available: Carbon Neutral Wool

Create your own Carbon Neutral Wool Products

As of May 2019, the Schneider Group is offering Carbon Neutral Wool Tops. These wool tops are made of Argentinian wool and are processed in our mill in Trelew. In addition to being carbon neutral, these wooltops can also be organic and RWS certified. Carbon Neutral Wool Tops offers our clients the possibility to develop their own carbon neutral yarns, fabrics and wool textile products.  

Knowing our impact

At the Schneider Group, our goal is to constantly improve our environmental impact and improve our own internal processes wherever possible. To achieve this goal, an important step was to measure our impact. In 2018, we undertook a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of our operation in Argentina where we have the unique setup of managing our own farms and running our own processing mill. The Life Cycle Assessment was conducted by the well-known wool LCA industry expert Stephen Wiedemann and his team from Integrity Ag & Environment. You can read all about our LCA study here.

Offsetting our impact

Once we fully understood our environmental impact in the areas of CO2 and methane emissions as well as water and energy use we were able to define projects on where and how to improve our farms as well as our mill. Some of these projects will take some time and investment over the next couple of years. In the meantime, however, we already wanted to be able to reduce our impact. Based on the LCA, we now knew exactly what our carbon emissions in our Fuhrmann Argentina operation were. This has led us to the idea to offset our carbon emissions by investing in a carbon-neutral project.

We have partnered up with Numerco, the industry leader in the field of carbon offset, and have invested in a carbon neutral project in Uruguay. With this investment, we can now offer our customers carbon neutral wool and help them achieve their own climate goals.

If you are interested in our climate neutral wool tops or want to work with us on our climate neutral wool project, then feel free to contact us any time.