{"id":64810,"date":"2025-09-14T21:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/?p=64810"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:38:04","slug":"new-mercedes-benz-glc-is-worlds-first-car-with-interior-certified-by-the-vegan-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/new-mercedes-benz-glc-is-worlds-first-car-with-interior-certified-by-the-vegan-society\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mercedes-Benz GLC is world\u2019s first car with interior certified by The Vegan Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mercedes-Benz is setting a new standard in the use of vegan materials. The company is the world&#8217;s first car manufacturer to offer vegan interior fittings certified by an independent organisation. The world-renowned organisation The Vegan Society has tested all soft-touch materials in the vehicle interior for the new Vegan Package \u2013 from the seat upholstery to the headliner, the pillar and door trim to the carpet \u2013 and awarded them vegan certification. Customers can be confident that all surfaces made using the high-quality Artico leather replica as well as all textiles used in the vehicle don\u2019t contain any products of animal origin. The Vegan Society has also certified that across all stages of production and processing, no ingredients or additives of animal origin \u2013 either processed or unprocessed \u2013 have been added or used in any form. The certified Vegan Package will be introduced as an interior option with the new GLC: Starting with the vehicle\u2019s sales release, the package will be labelled with the well-known \u201cVegan Trademark\u201d of The Vegan Society in the Mercedes-Benz vehicle configurator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt Mercedes-Benz, we don&#8217;t take shortcuts \u2013 instead, we go the extra mile. The certification of our vegan interior by The Vegan Society underlines this approach: transparency and trust are very important to us. Our customers can rest assured that our vegan interior materials do not contain any animal products and meet very high testing standards. We are delighted to be able to offer them this assurance through our partnership with an independent and globally recognised certification organisation.\u201d<br>Markus Sch\u00e4fer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Chief Technology Officer, Development &amp; Procurement<\/p><div class=\"autoestrada-nel-contenuto autoestrada-entity-placement\" id=\"autoestrada-3204380307\" style=\"position: relative;padding: 30px;border: 2px solid red;margin: 25px auto 35px;text-align: center;width: fit-content;\"><div class=\"autoestrada-adlabel\">Advertising<\/div><div id=\"autoestrada-2699701398\"><!-- START ADVERTISER: from tradedoubler.com -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\nvar uri = 'https:\/\/impfr.tradedoubler.com\/imp?type(img)g(25346028)a(2263928)' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11);\r\ndocument.write('<a href=\"https:\/\/clk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p=289682&a=2263928&g=25346028\" target=\"_BLANK\"><img src=\"'+uri+'\" border=0><\\\/a>');\r\n<\/script>\r\n<!-- END ADVERTISER: from tradedoubler.com --><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Test criteria for the use of vegan materials in vehicle interiors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of its development of vegan interior fittings, Mercedes-Benz has set itself the goal of testing the components of the materials used to ensure that it can offer customers vegan interior fittings with the greatest level of safety and transparency. To facilitate this, the company has brought in the expertise of the independent NGO The Vegan Society. In a first step, interior materials currently available in vehicles with the Mercedes-Benz star \u2013 as well as the processes used to manufacture them \u2013 were audited by The Vegan Society in a pilot project. This included soft-touch surface materials such as leather replica, microfibre fleece and other textiles. If there were any indications that they contained animal-based components, the materials underwent further development in a second step, in cooperation with the respective supplier, and the affected components were replaced by other, animal-free components or auxiliaries. The fundamental prerequisite was that the materials had to meet the high Mercedes\u2011Benz standards of quality and perceived value.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This step was followed by independent audit and certification by The Vegan Society. The system for vegan products audited a total of around 100 material components from various Mercedes\u2011Benz suppliers in accordance with its certification standards. The globally recognised \u201cVegan Trademark\u201d is only awarded to successfully certified products that have been manufactured and\/or developed without the use of any animal products, by-products or derivatives and that have additionally not involved testing of any sort on animals. Any potential cross-contamination with animal-derived ingredients must be prevented as far as it is practical and possible. These high standards were particularly important to Mercedes\u2011Benz in its choice of which certification organisation to work with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world&#8217;s first vehicle interior with \u201cVegan Trademark\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the new GLC with EQ Technology, The Vegan Society has awarded its globally recognised \u201cVegan Trademark\u201d to a vehicle interior for the first time. Mercedes\u2011Benz has intentionally avoided limiting its certified Vegan Package to the seat surfaces alone \u2013 but instead has also included many other components and parts that customers come into regular physical contact with. These include exposed surfaces such as seat and steering wheel covers, the headliner, door sills, pillars, doors, sun visors, the centre console and instrument panel, as well as the carpeting used in the footwells and boot. Many of these materials used also have a high recycled-material content. The Vegan Package will initially be available in the new GLC via the configurator, with additional models to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith the joint project between The Vegan Society and Mercedes\u2011Benz, we have reached a new milestone: it is the first time that a car interior has been third-party certified and approved by the Vegan Trademark. We are thrilled that Mercedes-Benz chose to partner with us on this journey and we have certainly learnt a lot from the two-year-long project.\u201d<br>Gabriela Chalkia-Jackson, Client Relations Manager of the Vegan Trademark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About The Vegan Society<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Vegan Society was founded on 1 November 1944, by Donald Watson in Birmingham, England, as the world\u2019s first vegan organisation. He coined the term \u201cvegan\u201d: a combination of the first three and last two letters of the English word \u201cvegetarian\u201d. In 1990, The Vegan Society introduced the \u201cVegan Trademark\u201d to make it easier for consumers to identify vegan products. More than 70,000 products in 68 countries are now certified with the Vegan Trademark \u2013 from food and beverages to cosmetics, clothing and household items. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"aes-custom-banner\">\n<!-- START ADVERTISER: from tradedoubler.com -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar uri = 'https:\/\/imp.tradedoubler.com\/imp?type(img)g(25936776)a(2367411)' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11);\ndocument.write('<a href=\"https:\/\/clk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p=361317&#038;a=2367411&#038;g=25936776\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"'+uri+'\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\"><\/a>');\n<\/script>\n<!-- END ADVERTISER: from tradedoubler.com -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz is setting a new standard in the use of vegan materials. 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