What inspires us
Highlights | Sustainability
Silhouette Group wins ALC Inclusion Award 2024The Austrian premium eyewear manufacturer impressed the jury in the demanding, three-stage selection process and was awarded the ALC Integration Prize for Upper Austria. This is further proof of the strong commitment and pioneering role of the Silhouette Group in the fields of integration and innovation!
October 23, 2024
Highlights | Sustainability
Carbon-neutral with offsetting. We continue to reduce our emissions.The Silhouette Group is an industry pioneer in reducing carbon emissions through its own efforts. Since September 2022, our eyewear production has been carbon-neutral with offsetting. This achievement has allowed us to meet a goal that many companies have only set for 2030, eight years ahead of schedule.
September 7, 2024
Highlights | Sustainability
We are looking forward to our future. June 5 is World Environment DayThe Silhouette Group is engaged in ambitious, pioneering work on environmental protection. We are now specifically involving the younger generation. Teaming up with the Austrian Climate Alliance, we train apprentices to become climate checkers.
June 5, 2024
Highlights | Sustainability
World Earth Day: New CSR Video From The Silhouette GroupThis year's World Earth Day theme, "Planet vs. Plastic," resonates deeply with us at the Silhouette Group. Committed to fostering a healthier environment, we are actively reducing our plastic consumption. Explore our journey towards sustainability in our captivating new CSR video.
April 22, 2024
Highlights | Brand
Silhouette Titan Minimal Art Collection wins iF Design Award 2024132 international design experts have been looking for excellence and outstanding design. And they found it in Silhouette’s Titan Minimal Art Collection. From a sea of almost 11,000 submissions from 72 countries, it was the timeless minimalistic design that the panel selected at the iF Design Awards 2024.
March 13, 2024
Highlights | Sustainability
The Silhouette Group is pleased to welcome 200,000 new employees: honey bees!Am 2. Mai 2023 hatten 200.000 Honigbienen ihren ersten Arbeitstag bei der Silhouette Group. Die zehn Bienenvölker sind in zehn Bienenstöcken auf der naturbelassenen Grünfläche bei der Unternehmenszentrale untergebracht.
July 18, 2023
Highlights | Sustainability
The Silhouette Group wins the IRIS23 environmental awardThe Silhouette Group prevailed over other local companies and institutions to win the IRIS23 City of Linz Environmental Award.
June 23, 2023
Highlights | Brand
Silhouette wins IF Design Award 2023From a sea of almost 11,000 submissions from 56 countries, it was Silhouette’s Momentum Aurum Fullrim Collection that the panel selected at the iF Design Awards 2023.
April 25, 2023
Highlights | Sustainability
World Earth Day on April 22Today is the World Earth Day. In a world where 2.2 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, the Silhouette Group is working to make every drop count.
April 22, 2023
Highlights | Sustainability
100 % committed to 0 % microplasticsThe Silhouette Group is on a mission to protect the environment from microplastics. To help achieve this goal, the globally successful family-owned business from Austria has developed innovative processes, including a closed production cycle.
April 21, 2023
Corporate press releases
The Silhouette Group is an internationally successful family-run company that has been designing and producing the finest eyewear in the world since 1964.
December 13, 2022
On October 5, 2022, at the Palais Kaufmännischer Verein, the Silhouette Group was awarded 1st place as Austria’s Leading Company 2022.
October 6, 2022
For 58 years, the Silhouette Group has been a driving force for innovation —including when it comes to environmental protection. For example, the Silhouette Group has installed large-scale solar panels to produce its own electricity.
September 7, 2022
As a family business, the Silhouette Group thinks long-term and has the future of the planet in mind. Since September 2022, the company’s eyewear production is carbon neutral thanks to carbon reduction actions and offsetting projects.
September 7, 2022
Which companies have done the best job at overcoming the challenged brought on by the global pandemic? That was the central question behind the Company of the Year 2022 survey.
March 29, 2022
Silhouette press releases
Our core brand is the global market leader in premium rimless eyewear, and has also made a unique impact on the full-rim eyewear market in recent years. Silhouette eyewear has it all: prescription eyewear, sunglasses with or without prescription, and rimless, full-rim or half-rim models; all with ultra-light design, unparalleled comfort, in high-quality materials and in a limitless range of shapes, colors and designs.
Any questions?
Dr. Anja Strejcek
Head of PR and Communication
Silhouette International Schmied AG
Ellbognerstrasse 24
4020 Linz, Austria
a.strejcek@silhouette.com
T: +43 732 3848 - 476
M: +43 664 2376934