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Calzados Fal has made a complete overhaul of its internal testing laboratory
Calzados Fal, the Spanish owner of the outdoor footwear brand Chiruca, has made a complete overhaul of its internal testing laboratory. Tripled in area, the facility is now properly set up to test both raw materials and finished products against international standards. With its permanent staff of two technicians, the ...
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Adidas Outdoor will launch the first apparel styles to feature Primaloft insulation of recycled plastic
(SGI) Next year, Adidas Outdoor will launch the first apparel styles to feature Primaloft insulation made of recycled plastic from Parley for the Oceans. They will be presented at the coming Ispo Munich and Outdoor Retailer shows. Adidas has already used the repurposed plastic from the organization in its footwear ...
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Wolverine is launching a collection of work, hunt, fish and casual gloves
Wolverine is launching a collection of work, hunt, fish and casual gloves in partnership with glove maker Olympia Sports of Elmsford, New York, a company that started its business in 1941 with manufacturing gear for the U.S. military in the Second World War. Steve Workman, vice president global product at ...
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Canadian brand Lolë expands product offering
The Canadian brand Lolë, which until now has focused exclusively on women’s athleisure apparel, has announced its expansion into the men’s and travel categories. This move appears as a direct result of the arrival of actor and outdoor enthusiast Josh Duhamel as equity owner and investor as well as ambassador ...
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Polartec will present a lighter version of its two-year-old Power Air fabric at Ispo Munich 2020
Polartec will present a lighter version of its two-year-old Power Air fabric at Ispo Munich 2020. The polyester fabric is made from a single yarn, is fully recyclable and has a higher content (73 percent) of post-consumer recycled (PCR) resin. It works by encapsulating air-trapping fibers. This results in a ...
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Ternua is launching a new autumn/winter line of apparel, called Whales Spirit
Ternua is launching a new autumn/winter line of apparel, called Whales Spirit, whose items are made entirely of recycled materials. The target market is the so-called “Ternua tribe,” consisting of urbanites with environmentalist values. Whales Spirit amounts to a form of outdoor athleisure into which the Spanish-Basque outdoor brand has ...
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The winners of the Ispo Awards 2020 have been selected
The winners of the Ispo Awards 2020 have been selected but, as usual, cannot be announced before the official award ceremony at Ispo Munich on Jan. 26 at 4.30 p.m. As the organizers report, the jury has selected the highlights from over 430 entries in four segments: snowsports, outdoor, fitness ...
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Three new Gore-Tex Pro technologies adopted by several brands
Arc’teryx, Mammut, Mountain Equipment, Mountain Hardwear, Montbell, Norröna and Patagonia are among the apparel brands that have adopted three new Gore-Tex Pro technologies for their autumn/winter 2020/21 collections. Segmenting its offer of solutions for waterproof/breathable fabrics, W.L. Gore & Associates has developed a “most rugged technology,” a “stretch technology” and ...
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Rab will present its first skiwear collection, called Khroma, at Ispo Munich
The British outdoor brand describes it as a natural progression of its own history. Khroma is a clothing system to keep ski mountaineers warm, dry and comfortable at all times. The step does seem natural, as Rab has been designing and selling clothing for mountaineers and alpinists for about four ...
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News briefsIndustrial Summit Technology (I.S.T) to launch new high-tech fiber at Ispo Munich
Industrial Summit Technology (I.S.T), a Japanese materials company, will launch a new high-tech fiber at the next edition of Ispo Munich in January. The new Imidetex material is based on Polyimide, a high-performance polymer widely used in the aerospace industry, and boasts a tensile strength equivalent to Kevlar. According to ...
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The Fastening Products division of YKK – a network of...
The Fastening Products division of YKK – a network of 108 companies in 72 countries – has established a partnership with Browzwear, which produces a software suite for 3D apparel design and display. Parts of YKK’s catalog of zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners, webbing tapes, snaps and buttons will be available for ...
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Helly Hansen will be launching a new fabric technology called...
Helly Hansen will be launching a new fabric technology called Lifa Infinity Pro at Ispo Munich. According to the brand, the technology sets a new standard for responsible waterproof-breathable apparel. Lifa Infinity Pro has a three-layer fabric construction and uses Helly Hansen's proprietary Lifa technology, which the brand has continued ...
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The Japanese technical outdoor apparel brand Goldwin has released a...
The Japanese technical outdoor apparel brand Goldwin has released a new skiwear collection called “Snow Dweller,” with four pieces designed in collaboration with Kaptain Sunshine, a Japanese-heritage clothing brand under the direction of the renowned designer Shinsuke Kojima
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Paris Alpine Studio: where sports meet high fashion
Sports and high fashion are increasingly converging, with more and more luxury fashion labels following the athleisure trend, while outdoor brands keep coming up with “urban-chic” styles. This is why Jonathan & Fletcher, a design and prototyping studio based in the French outdoor cluster of Annecy, has decided to collaborate ...
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For the first time since its foundation in 1969, Rip...
For the first time since its foundation in 1969, Rip Curl has organized a winter range release “somewhere” near the Arctic Circle in Northern Europe in late November with over 70 European employees and agents
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Polartec has received an R&D 100 Award 2019 for its...
Polartec has received an R&D 100 Award 2019 for its Polartec Power Air fabric technology. The annual R&D 100 Awards, organized by American magazine R&D World, have served as the most prestigious innovation awards program since 1963 and are presented in recognition of exceptional new products or processes developed and ...
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Splitboards Europe of Rosenheim, a town near Munich, Germany, has...
Splitboards Europe of Rosenheim, a town near Munich, Germany, has expanded its cooperation with Spark R&D, a producer of bindings for splitboards based in Bozeman, Montana. Splitboards Europe, an online retailer and an event organizer specializing in this hybrid snowsports activity, has served as Spark's warranty center for Germany and ...
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With Movesense, a sophisticated sensor and development environment, Suunto is...
With Movesense, a sophisticated sensor and development environment, Suunto is making it easier to rapidly develop and bring to market new, accurate, low-cost solutions for motion-sensing and biometrics. Whether applied to sports, agriculture, manufacturing or healthcare, Movesense can speed up the development of wearable sensors from years to days. The ...
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Epson has launched what it claims to be the first...
Epson has launched what it claims to be the first dye-sublimation textile printing solution with fluorescent ink. The new SureColor F9470 and SureColor F9470H are designed for the roll-to-roll-textile, home-décor, promotional-product and soft-signage markets. The SureColor F9470H has the option of printing with fluorescent yellow and fluorescent pink inks, which ...
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Hoka One One has launched a successor to its Challenger...
Hoka One One has launched a successor to its Challenger ATR 5 running shoe, adding Gore-Tex to the mix
