At Deuter we are privileged to be very passionate about our work and our products since all of us are loving the outdoors. Our products make it better, safer and more enjoyable to spend your time outside and make sure for a good experience. Very important to us is yet the close partnership with our manufacturers who support us with their expertise - in development, production or our social responsibility.

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Deuter has been a bluesign® partner since 2008.

To optimize our production processes we are working with the bluesign® standard - the strictest environmental standard for textile products worldwide.

The bluesign® standard is not only the strictest standard for environmental protection but also for safety at work and consumer protection. In contrast to other eco-labels, the bluesign® standard does not monitor the final product for contaminants or residues of chemical pollutants but concentrates on the manufacturing process itself and every component of it.

Throughout the production process, beginning with the raw materials till the final product, we are looking for optimization potential regarding material usage, energy and water use, handling of chemicals, noise, waste and wastewater as well as safety at work.

More information about the bluesign® standard can be found here: www.bluesign.com

In order to ensure the appropriate animal welfare throughout our supply chain, we only use certified down and feathers since June 2015.

In the production of our sleeping bags we mainly use synthetic fibers, down only makes up for 16%. This natural product still offers the best insulation compared to synthetic fibers, especially when the ratio of light weight to high heat output is considered.

Through live plucking and stuffing mast, serious injuries can occur to the animals during down harvesting. To minimize these risks, we have been using only down as a waste product in the Chinese food industry from the beginning.

Since June 2015, we have gone a step further and only buy down that has been certified according to the Responsible Down Standard (RDS). The entire production and supply chain from the chick through the cleaned down to the finished sleeping bag in the sports shop must be comprehensible. Transparency is the ultimate goal. Each individual production site worldwide is visited and evaluated by independent, professional inspectors. When the animal protection is respected in all phases, the sleeping bag meets the requirements of the RDS certificate (Responsible Down Standard). For further information, please visit: textileexchange.org

Since June 2015 Deuter is member of the alliance for sustainable textiles.

The "Textilbündnis" (textile alliance) is an initiative started by the German government in October 2014. The members out of economy, civil society, standard organisations and union aim at social, ecological and economical improvements within the textile supply chain.

More information on textilbuendnis.com

Deuter is one of the founding members of the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA)

EOCA is a non-profit organisation of the European outdoor industry supporting conservation projects around the world.

More information on outdoorconservation.eu/

The headquarter in Gersthofen near Augsburg Deuter moved into at the end of 2012 meets high environmental standards.