Downlite Outdoor, a market leader in down and feather processing and supplier of responsibly sourced performance fills, has named Debrand as a partner in its relentless effort to increase its industry-leading sustainable initiatives and circularity practices.
Progress is made possible through alliances working collectively for positive change. Downlite Outdoor supplies premium down to top brands like Marmot, REI, Canada Goose, Lululemon, Ralph Lauren, Enlightened Equipment, Hammock Gear, Columbia Sportswear, Haglöfs, and Cascade Designs.
Every season brings a batch of products at the end of their useful life, raising the topic of circularity and the opportunity to upcycle components – like Down, zippers, and snaps.
Debrand aligns with world-class apparel brands to elevate sustainability by extracting as much value as possible from the planet’s finite resources. With Downlite Outdoor, Debrand works with product overages in client jackets, sleeping bags, pillows, and bedding that are out of circulation due to past seasons and/or unsalable goods to market. “Reverse Logistics” is moving a product backward through the supply chain, taking apart the product to its basic virgin materials and cycling it back to the manufacturer to rebuild the new product.
With more than 100 years of down processing experience, Ohio-based Downlite is a trusted partner to many of the most recognizable premier apparel and sleeping bag brands in the outdoor industry. Downlite has pioneered breakthrough innovations in performance down technologies and has emerged as a leader in traceability and transparency through its global supply chain and now circularity and reverse logistics.
“Optimized Reverse Logistics” means doing this more efficiently through the highest-value recovery channel. Debrand helps brands become more responsible with product waste.
Debrand is built with a simple mission in mind: to help extract as much value as possible from the world’s finite resources.
