Demand for vegan shoes—manufactured without the use of animal-based fibers or materials—is on the rise. The market for synthetic leather, in particular, is expected to grow to $78.5 billion by 2025.

Look down at your feet. Your shoes might seem an innocuous, but they contain lots of forms of plastic, and often leather, giving them their own sizeable carbon footprint. As all companies try to limit ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Soak, a footwear company that began with a Kickstarter campaign in 2015, is ...

In less than four years, Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems’ remanufactured brake shoe operation has topped the 4-million-unit production milestone In less than four years, Bendix Commercial Vehicle ...

Dozens of workers at a shoe factory in southern China’s Dongguan city glue, sew and buff foam slippers and canvas shoes. They punch every hole and lace every shoe by hand. “Every lacing is [done] ...

In the open studio of a renovated 36,000-square-foot factory in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, a series of Shima Seiki automated knitting machines emit quick, whirring sounds. Around the machines, automated ...

There are some new kicks in town, and they're giving people who love quality leather sneakers a reason to kick up their heels. Opie Way, a new footwear micro-manufacturing company, is geared up to ...

Weinbrenner Shoe Co., which has been making boots in Wisconsin since 1892, is embarking on a new era with the acquisition of another factory space in Merrill, Wis. In March, Weinbrenner finalized the ...

A family-run business that makes dance shoes for Strictly Come Dancing said it has welcomed new technology in order to be more productive. International Dance Shoes (IDS), in Milton Keynes, has ...