Meet the Most Influential Ingredient Brand You’ve Never Heard Of

The idea to integrate recycled materials proved pivotal, setting the twin north stars of sustainability and material innovation in Thermore’s sky. Season after season, the company worked on its product to make it not just more sustainable but warmer and more durable too. Then in 2011, Thermore achieved an outdoor industry first ascent in creating the first insulation made of 100% recycled plastic bottles.

“We seamlessly blend innovation with sustainability, making eco-conscious design a priority at the genesis of every project,” says Patrizio Siniscalshi, Thermore’s managing director and Lucio’s son. It’s a tact that the world’s best-known performance apparel brands have appreciated, and taken advantage of to make their products.

In 2019, Thermore launched Ecodown, a synthetic, sustainable alternative to down made of 100% post-consumer plastic bottles. Its lofty fibers are soft, with a high warmth-to-weight ratio that gives jackets like the Stio Skycrest Insulated Snap Shirt and Karbon Chronicle Down Jacket their ultralight warmth.

By focusing on synthetic insulation, Thermore can do more than simply mimic (and improve upon) traditional down. Their Invisiloft insulation, for example, packs as much warmth as possible into a thinner material for lighter jackets and gear. Then there’s EVOdown, which brings some of down’s best characteristics to a rolled design that has high loft and provides full thermal coverage across a jacket. (It’s also 100% recycled, naturally.)

Source: https://www.fieldmag.com/articles/thermore-ecodown-insulation-brand-history