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All Jones snowboards and splitboards are now Fair Trade Certified™
We're proud to announce that our 2024/2025 snowboards and splitboards are Fair Trade Certified™. Jones is the first ski or snowboard hardgoods brands to have boards certified by the non-profit organization Fair Trade USA™.
Fair Trade Certified is a sustainable sourcing model that helps support companies, empower workers and protect the environment. When a product is Fair Trade Certified it means it has been audited to make sure the people who manufacture that product are treated fairly, paid equitably and work in safe conditions.
SWS Board Technology, Jones Snowboards’ production partner, became a Fair Trade Certified manufacturing facility in October 2023. To achieve certification, SWS was audited to demonstrate adherence to over 100+ compliance criteria that cover social responsibility, environmental responsibility, employee empowerment and economic development.
Working with companies like Jones enables our model to succeed. The products that we buy every day are connected to the livelihoods of others and partners like Jones empower consumers to shop their values. Pioneers like Jones show the breadth of what is possible with Fair Trade Certified across industries.
– paul rice, founder & ceo of fair trade USA
Receiving Fair Trade Certification reinforces Jones’ mission to be a leader in ethical and responsible business practices. Other notable milestones include switching our snowboard production to 100% solar energy and Bio-Resin epoxy in 2020, completing a life cycle assessment of our snowboard production in 2020, and developing Re-Up Tech, the world’s first snowboard recycling program in 2023.
