Oberalp launches products designed with circularity in mind on its path to Net Zero
The Contribute Report 2025 highlights textile-to-textile applications, mono-material design and more than 7,000 products given a second life.

In 2025, Oberalp brought textile-to-textile recycling and mono-material design into commercial products into focus. To mark Salewa’s 90th anniversary, the brand launched a limited-edition product using fabric made from 100% recycled polyester, of which 51% came from textile-to-textile recycling. LaMunt also introduced selected fleece products using 100% polyester fabrics and fewer mixed-material components to facilitate future sorting and recycling.

Textile-to-textile recycling uses material from discarded textiles to produce fibers for new textiles. Unlike recycled polyester made from other waste streams, such as plastic bottles, it aims to keep textile materials within the textile system. Its wider adoption still depends on effective collection and sorting systems, consistent material quality and sufficient recycling capacity.

Mono-material design approaches the challenge from another direction. By reducing the number of materials used in a fabric or product, it can make sorting and recycling easier at the end of its useful life. LaMunt applied this principle to selected fleece products, using 100% polyester fabrics and removing unnecessary components made from other materials. Some zippers and trims still need to be removed before recycling, as polyester alternatives did not meet the required performance standards. Since suitable textile collection and recycling systems are also not widely available, Oberalp describes the products as designed with circularity in mind rather than as fully circular or fully recyclable.

Oberalp is investing in circularity because products account for the largest share of the Group’s measured climate impact. Its internal Corporate Carbon Footprints for 2024 and 2025 showed that more than 80% is linked to products, with fabric production representing a particularly significant share.

Circularity will not be achieved through one material innovation or one product alone. It requires us to rethink how products are designed, used and repaired, and how their materials can eventually be recovered at the end of life. In 2025, we took important practical steps while also gaining a clearer understanding of where technical and systemic limitations remain

Ruth oberrauch
President Oberalp Group

Circularity also means keeping products in use for longer. Across Oberalp’s brands, repair, resoling, refurbishment, resale and spare-parts services continued to grow in 2025. Repair volumes grew by 19%, while more than 7,000 products have now been given a second life since 2023.

Product-life-extension includes Dynafit’s Care & Repair service, Salewa’s Second Life program, repair patches from Dynafit, Wild Country and LaMunt, Evolv’s climbing-shoe resoling service, and products from Salewa and Wild Country designed for easier maintenance, disassembly and component replacement.

The Contribute Report 2025 explains how these measures support Oberalp’s path to Net Zero. Reducing material complexity, increasing the use of recycled and durable materials, and extending product lifetimes are central to the Group’s reduction efforts.

In 2025, Oberalp also improved the quality and availability of product data, further automated its Life Cycle Assessment and carbon-accounting processes, and took a formal step towards setting science-based targets for its Net Zero 2050 strategy.

Beyond circularity and climate action, the report covers Oberalp’s continued integration of Human Rights Due Diligence into its operations and supplier relationships, including collaboration with factories and external stakeholders in key sourcing countries.

The report references GRI standards and is available for download: Contribute 2025

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