ISPO Award Nominee 2024: The Upcycled Ultra-Light Flexdown Jacket by Tanboer

This lightweight down jacket was designed with sustainability and versatility in mind. The jacket can be worn either way and is also modular so it can be adapted to many different needs.

The sleeves and hood can be removed, allowing this modular and reversible down jacket to be worn in different ways. The different design on the inside and outside makes it even more versatile.

The fabric used is also innovative. The jacket is made from GRS-certified recycled down and an innovative 10D microfiber fabric made from recycled Nylon6 and recycled textile and silk waste. The fabric weighs only 26 grams per square meter and requires a high level of craftsmanship in weaving technique due to the fineness of the yarn. Despite its fineness, the fabric is dirt and water repellent and tear resistant.

The jacket is filled with recycled down from used down jackets. Professional cleaning and treatment processes remove impurities and odors from the down, so that it again achieves a quality and thermal insulation performance that closely resembles that of new down. In this way, Tanboer not only wants to reduce waste, but also to contribute to the protection of animals by reducing dependence on new animal down. Even the zipper is made from recycled material.

Tanboer not only uses recycled materials, but also dismantles and recycles old clothes itself and delivers them to fabric and down suppliers. These then carry out a secondary processing cycle to make the materials available to Tanboer again, where they are processed into new products.

The GRS production process, which is certified as environmentally friendly and manufactured in China, saves 8.5 percent of electricity consumption, 100 percent of oil consumption, 84 percent of water consumption and 77 percent of carbon dioxide emissions compared to the conventional nylon production process.

The jacket was designed for men and will be launched in September 2025.

• Extra thin and light fabric made from recycled nylon, textile waste and silk scraps
• Recycled down
• Modular design for great flexibility
• Establishment of a functioning circular system for recycling fabrics and down