Our goal is to enable footwear brands to reduce your environmental footprint, while continuing to innovate and provide performance-driven goods at competitive price points.
Every day we’re working with nature to find creative solutions that preserve our planet’s most precious resources, without compromising on performance and quality.
In keeping with our transparency in supply chain initiatives, BLOOM commissioned a complete, peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to help brands and consumers grasp the impact of using algae from cleaning water. An LCA is a data-based approach to measuring environmental impacts in five impact categories.
The algae-based thermoplastic manufacturing process was methodically analyzed at every step from algae harvesting to plastic production so that it could be compared to traditional EVA. This graph taken from our LCA shows that Rise by Bloom has 20-41% fewer impacts in all impact categories compared to EVA.
Although Bloom is famous for its high-performance algae-based foam, this is only the first of many products we’re preparing to offer our brand partners. Bloom’s goal is to implement a sustainable alternative for every component of modern footwear, enabling you to Tread Well.
Learn more about our innovative eco-products below and make a material change today.
Formerly known as Bloom Foam, Rise is your environmentally-conscious, high-performance replacement for traditional petroleum-based EVAs.
STRIDE is BLOOM’s thermoplastic rubber (TPR), bringing the benefits of BLOOM’s environmental technology and impacts to a broader range of products.
Meet BLOOM TPE – BLOOM’s newest material innovation, providing the performance you expect from traditional thermoplastic elastomers (TPE), now with positive environmental impacts.
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Design a product that would traditionally include petroleum-based materials (like EVA, TPR, etc). Don’t worry, our materials work seamlessly with standard manufacturing processes.
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Add Bloom to your supply chain either by working with an existing Bloom factory partner or by reaching out to us to onboard a new factory.
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Use our most common formulas to develop your tech pack using Bloom masterbatch OR your factory can develop a custom formula that meets your specific needs.
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Once your formula is in place – reach out to us! We can work with you and your factory to forecast your masterbatch needs and to begin the certification process for your Bloom eco-facts.
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1. Use your eco-facts to prove the positive environmental impacts of your product.
2. Reach out to us to receive marketing visuals and materials for sharing the Bloom eco-story.
3. Let us know when you’re going live! We love to promote our brand partners.
