Innate creates cleanly designed storage solutions for food, drink and outdoor travel.

We’re a young, growing business based in Vancouver, Canada; a city surrounded by mountains and water that provides perpetual inspiration and a field testing feedback loop for our product design team.

Innate is derived from the Latin word Innatus, which refers to the inborn characteristics that are part of one's inner essential nature. At Innate, our inborn qualities, or DNA, include a commitment to being a progressive participant in our global community by following transparent business practices. We strive to make carefully considered choices to produce the best possible products with a reduced ecological footprint in keeping with our philosophy of Leaner, Cleaner, Greener.

We have a simple goal; that you experience lasting satisfaction from our products and recommend them to your family and friends.

Innate is derived from the Latin word Innatus, which refers to the inborn characteristics that are part of one's inner essential nature. At Innate, our inborn qualities, or DNA, include a commitment to being a progressive participant in our global community by following transparent business practices.

We strive to deliver on this commitment by making carefully considered choices in materials and manufacturing. These choices can be traced through a transparent chain of custody, which details where and how our products are made. This includes the tracking and third-party testing of raw materials, as well as following set engagement and remediation processes that help us resolve the tough environmental, labor and workplace safety issues in our contract production facilities.

Making this commitment isn't easy and following through is often tougher. To guide us in our day-to-day actions we have developed a series of governance documents or "guard-rails" as we call them.

Our Statement of Purpose defines what we do, our Values and Supporting Actions detail how we do it. The 'how' includes the Innate Sourcing Policy, Product Sustainability Commitment and Supplier Code of Conduct. If you have questions about these policies, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions section.

Statement of Purpose

Clean designs born of considered thinking produced through progressive and transparent business practices.

Innate Values and Supporting Actions

• We offer products in an informative manner that support an active and healthy lifestyle.
• Our actions in the communities where we make and sell our products are consistent with our statement of purpose.
• Our Sourcing Policy defines our expectations on how we will conduct business with our suppliers in a responsible manner.
• Our Product Sustainability Commitment details the criteria we use in designing and manufacturing Innate products and transparency of information on the materials and processes used.
• Our supplier code of conduct defines our expectations in accordance with the International Labour Organization conventions, the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN’s conventions on children’s rights and the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.

Innate Sourcing Policy

1. All manufacturers of Innate labeled products will sign and adhere to the Innate Supplier Code of Conduct.
2. Innate staff or their authorized representatives will conduct inspections to ensure that all facilities producing Innate labeled products are in compliance with the expectations detailed in the Innate Supplier Code of Conduct.
3. Innate will ensure that our product sustainability commitments are met though a chain of custody process involving sampling, testing and documentation.
4. Innate is committed to engaging with interested stakeholders on issues of sourcing and chain of custody information.

Innate Product Sustainability Commitment

• The design criteria for Innate products are they must perform well for their intended use, be as durable as possible, plus use environmentally progressive materials and production processes where available.
• Product packaging is minimal, with as much recycled content as possible.
• A chain of custody process is used to ensure our expectations are met.

Innate Supplier Code of Conduct

Health and Safety Employers shall provide a safe and healthy working environment to prevent accidents and injury to health arising out of, linked with, or occurring in the course of work or as a result of the operation of employer facilities.

Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Employers shall recognize and respect the right of employees to freedom of association and collective bargaining. Where the right to freedom of association is restricted under law, vendors must allow their employees to raise with the vendors’ representatives any job-related grievances the employees may have, without penalty or reprisal. Wages and Benefits Employers recognize that wages are essential to meeting employees’ basic needs. Employers shall pay employees, as a floor, at least the minimum wage required by local law or the prevailing industry wage, whichever is higher, and shall provide legally mandated benefits.

Hours of Work Except in extraordinary business circumstances, employees shall (i) not be required to work more than the lesser of (a) 48 hours per week and 12 hours overtime or (b) the limits on regular and overtime hours allowed by the law of the country of manufacture or, where the laws of such country do not limit the hours of work, the regular work week in such country plus 12 hours overtime and (ii) be entitled to at least one day off in every seven day period.

Overtime Compensation In addition to their compensation for regular hours of work, employees shall be compensated for overtime hours at such premium rate as is legally required in the country of manufacture or, in those countries where such laws do not exist, at a rate at least equal to their regular hourly compensation rate.

Forced Labor There shall not be any use of forced labor, whether in the form of prison labor, indentured labor, bonded labor or otherwise.

Child Labor No person shall be employed at an age younger than 15 or younger than the age for completing compulsory education in the country of manufacture where such age is higher than 15.

Harassment or Abuse Every employee shall be treated with respect and dignity. No employee shall be subject to any physical, sexual, psychological or verbal harassment or abuse.

Non-discrimination No person shall be subject to any discrimination in employment, including hiring, salary, benefits, advancement, discipline, termination or retirement, on the basis of gender, race, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, political opinion, or social or ethnic origin.

At Innate we create storage solutions for food, drink and outdoor travel that combine LEANER designs with CLEANER production processes which move us toward GREENER product. Moving beyond slogans, this is about minimizing our ecological footprint; a metaphor for the total impact we have on the planet when we make a product or do an activity like drive a car.

The term ecological footprint is a sprawling and complex issue; it matters though, because the impacts of our actions contribute to human-made climate change. This is different from the term carbon footprint which is used when talking about climate change. A carbon footprint is shorthand for all the different greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

Measuring an ecological or carbon footprint is complex; the the most common mistake is to neglect a large portion of impacts in the activity or item under discussion. For example a person or a business may measure their carbon footprint but look only at their immediate activities, such as personal travel of daily operations. Meanwhile, the much greater emissions caused by activities of their raw material suppliers or finished products are ignored. This is often referred to as a “toe-print” since it doesn’t give the full picture.

Think of footprint measurement as ecological morality; it’s about striving to get the complete picture of activity or product related impacts on the planet. Recent legislation in many countries helps ensure specific harmful substances or processes are controlled or not used. Despite these positive developments, information around the true footprint of a given product continues to be inconsistent and confusing.

It would be nearly impossible for us as individuals to find the information or time to analyze every aspect of an industrial process, balance the good with the bad and then make a decision for a given product. Governments can help level the global playing field by passing legislation to help ensure that consistent information be available with third party verification. Meanwhile, a solid initiative by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, an industry-wide group of leading apparel and footwear brands, retailers, manufacturers, non-governmental organizations, academic experts and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is working to reduce the environmental and social impacts of apparel and footwear products.