Outdoor clothing to protect

Against not only the rain, but all you can encounter.

Most waterproof clothing made with a plastic layer or membrane, where the biggest player only now is starting to step off of PFAS based layers but still are based on petrochemical materials, limiting the recycling capability of these multi-material constructions.

We are researching constructions that are bio-based or even don’t use membranes at all and use nature itself as inspiration.

Because we are out there, and sometimes it seems like nature tries to tell us to do better.

Alwin Papegaaij in the outdoors, next to what appears to be a dino raptor.

Making clothing natural again

Did you know that a lot of woolen clothing contain petrochemical plastics? Designed only with cost and the use-phase in mind, without regard for the end of use life, making reuse or recycling extra difficult.

We can do better. Therefore we will start a project on the elimination of these petrochemical materials, keeping in-use properties, whilst designing for life after the use phase.

To make woolen clothing natural again!

Orange yarn spinning with sustainable technologies