WHY DOES HETREGÓ
USE DOWN?
It is precisely the characteristics of feathers and down,
which we will describe below, that give you the soft, light, warm, comfortable
feeling you get when you wear a Hetregó jacket.
A FINISHED PRODUCT THAT IS WARMER AND LIGHTER.
Hetregó doesn’t only use feather and down stuffing because our company has been processing and marketing this product for over 100 years, but also because down is considered the best insulator in the world, able to provide three times more heat per ounce than synthetic insulators, and therefore allowing us to create a finished product that is warmer and lighter.
DOWN: A RENEWABLE RESOURCE WITH A MUCH LOWER
CONDITIONED IMPACT THAN POLYESTER FILLINGS.
As well as the properties described above, down is a renewable resource with a much smaller environmental impact than polyester stuffing.
The analysis carried out by the International Down and Feather Bureau and Long Trail Sustainability, an independent company specialised in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), compares the environmental impact of down stuffing with polyester. The environmental aspects analysed were:
Human health
Ecosystems
Resources
Cumulative demand for energy
Climate change
From the study, it emerges that:
The environmental impact of down is 85% – 97% lower than polyester in all the areas analysed the impact of polyester on climate change is 18 times higher than that of down