TEKO USA

Patagonia is twice the size of France. It has a population of 2 million people mostly located around the coast. It is incredibly unmechanised or polluted. The region is a wilderness of mountains and vast grasslands and an ideal habitat for the merino flocks that we use in our socks. All of our merino wool is certified mulesing-free.

It is transported by sea to Europe where the merino wool is treated without the use of any nasty chlorine or bleach to be shrink-resistant. This eco-friendly Bluesign® certified process transforms our wool into a high performance yarn. We use merino wool in our ecoRUN, ecoHIKE and ecoSKI collections.

Econyl® regenerated nylon is a dream that became a reality after four years of tireless research and development by the Aquafil® group based in Italy. Econyl® can be regenerated time and time again from old to new yarns. We use an ultrafine Econyl® yarn in our ecoRUN collection.

The Newlife® recycled yarn is made from bottles collected directly after consumption in order to avoid the deterioration of the PET. The bottles are collected, processed and spun into a superfine fibre all within a very small area of Northern Italy. We use this superfine, recycled polyester in some of our ecoRUN, ecoHIKE and ecoSKI collections.

Tencel® Lyocell fibres help to maintain the environmental balance by being integrated into the natural cycle of nature. The fibres originate from Eucalyptus wood which is a renewable raw material created by natural photosynthesis and requiring twenty times less water to grow. Fibres are manufactured using an environmentally responsible production process and certified as compostable and biodegradable, thus they can fully revert back to nature. We use Tencel® Lyocell in our Bio.d Outdoor collection.