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TRASH IS STILL TRASH!!!

Vaude among early adopters of PrimaLoft’s new 100% recycled insulation

High-performance insulation materials provider PrimaLoft will unveil new versions of its Black and Silver Insulation products made exclusively from post-consumer recycled (PCR) content at the OutDoor exhibition in Friedrichshafen, Germany (June 17-20).

The primaloft company can state all they want about being a provider of high performance insulating materials, but it is not true. They market and do not make chopped polyester fiberfill that never has been worth anything once the temperature slides below 40 degrees F.

The company has said the creation of PrimaLoft Silver Insulation – 100% PCR and PrimaLoft Black Insulation – 100% PCR is the result of intensive research.

Intensive research? What a joke chopped staple is chopped staple, maybe they were researching something else and got confused!

It has explained that the challenge of creating a high-performance insulation made entirely from recycled material is complicated by the fact that the melting points of the PET bottles used to create the recycled fibres differ from those of virgin fibres. This made producing a stable insulation fibre which offered high performance very difficult.

Challenge my butt, recycled chopped staple fiberfill has been in existence for years, they would have discovered that fact if they were doing their research.

To combat this problem, PrimaLoft has said it developed special recycling and production processes to create high-performance fibres that are finer and softer than cashmere and offer high bulk density and strong thermal performance. It added that nine PET bottles are necessary to create the insulation layer for one jacket.

This is the very first time I have ever read that recycled fiber and virgin fiber different. If you looked at a hand full of each you cannot tell the difference. As for being finer and softer than cashmere, finer yes, softer I doubt it. Nine bottles to produce the amount of fiber needed for one layer must be a July jacket in the northern hemisphere.

German outdoor brand Vaude is one of the first brands that will use these new products. By summer 2019, it will convert all products currently equipped with PrimaLoft Silver and Black Insulation to the new 100% recycled versions.

Vaude is going to offer these jackets for summer 2019, like I said summer insulation.

Vaude’s head of apparel, Aaron Bittner, said: “One of our key goals is to reduce the use of fossil fuels in our products and create closed circuits. PrimaLoft provides us with innovative solutions on this path ‘away from the oil'. Thanks to our longstanding ingredient partner, we are delighted to be able to use high-performance insulation made from 100% recycled material for the first time."

If Aaron knew anything about insulation this is not a product he would use.

Just like what is seen in the footwear and rainwear industry the jacket makers have no regard for their customers; i.e. the consumers that buy their jackets. These companies when it comes to insulated garments have no clue about the insulations that they incorporate into their garments. This company Vaude is a perfect example of being blind and therefore unbeknownst to them are being led by the blind. Primaloft has since the late 1980’s worked diligently to sell their chopped staple fiberfill and at one point tried to get an Asian company to make a continuous filament fiberfill which was the most successful failure of a product. They recognized then that their product was highly (a word they like to use) inferior to the Lamilite/Climashield continuous filament fiberfill product. Chopped staple fiberfill regardless of the name given to it for use as insulation should never be mentioned in the same sentence. So long as continuous filament fiber exists it will reign supreme as the finest form of insulation on the planet, making all others obsolete!

Maybe someday the Vaude Company as well as the rest of the outerwear marketing companies will wake up and start thinking about what is in the best interest of their consumer customers which ultimately will be in their best interest. Trash eventually becomes recognizable to one and all.