Animal welfare and nature conservation are very important to us

We want to develop high-quality outdoor products that will bring lasting enjoyment. Products you can rely on – outdoors in nature, while traveling, and in everyday life.

Our goal is to create favorite products. Things you love to use because they work well, feel good, and truly help you. Because you take better care of what you enjoy using and value. For us, that's a key aspect of sustainability: creating products that aren't quickly replaced, but bring joy for many years.

We prioritize environmental protection, animal welfare, and fair conditions throughout the entire value chain. For us, sustainability means more than just using good materials. A product must be durable, functional, repairable, and thoughtfully designed – from development and use to the end of its life cycle.

Our aim is to combine environmental responsibility with technical performance. We want to offer honest, reliable, and durable products – at a fair price. A price that reflects the product's value, without artificially inflated prices or aggressive discounting.

When a product is finished, we want to hold it in our hands with a smile and be able to say with complete conviction: We did a good job. Because only when we ourselves enjoy our work and our products can we pass that conviction on to you.

My team and I personally stand behind this.

Your Markus

At Grüezi bag®, sustainability means more than just producing a product from the best possible materials. For us, sustainability begins with the development process: A sleeping bag, a jacket, or a sleeping mat must be durable, functional, repairable, and reliably usable for many years. Because the most sustainable product is one that brings lasting enjoyment and doesn't need to be replaced quickly.

As an outdoor brand from Bavaria, we develop our products with extensive experience, technical expertise, and a clear focus on natural functionality. Our particular strength lies in innovative insulation materials such as DownWool®, AlmWolle, and SilkWool. These materials combine high performance with natural properties: they regulate moisture, ensure a comfortable sleeping and body climate, and provide reliable warmth even under demanding conditions.

When selecting our materials, we prioritize quality, origin, and responsible manufacturing. Many of our products use recycled outer fabrics, PFC-free waterproofing, RDS-certified down, and mulesing-free wool from Europe. Our DownWool® filling is mechanically bonded in Germany and requires no chemical treatment. Furthermore, most of the components used in our products are certified according to OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100. 

Longevity is a key part of our understanding of sustainability. That's why we offer repair and refill options for many of our products. This allows Grüezi bag® products to be used for longer instead of being replaced prematurely. We also support our customers with clear washing and care instructions to ensure that the products remain functional for as long as possible.

We know that sustainability is a journey, not a state that can be achieved simply by being reached. That's why we continuously work to improve our products, materials, packaging, and processes. Our goal is to develop outdoor gear that performs reliably, feels good, and uses resources more responsibly.

In short: Grüezi bag® stands for natural comfort, durable quality and well-designed products – developed for people who like to be outdoors and want to make conscious choices.

Materials

We're not looking for the cheapest materials, nor are we looking for the lowest-cost production. For us, quality, fair conditions, and environmental considerations are paramount.

We strive to use as many renewable raw materials as possible: cotton, wool, down, wood, and silk are already being processed. Alternatively, we use recycled synthetic fibers.

We use materials that are extremely durable. High mechanical strength and colorfastness are just as important as easy care and repairability. This guarantees a long service life.

Whether it's a sleeping bag or a jacket, our products consist of many individual parts and materials. We have to source them from different countries and bring them together in one place. We make each of these decisions consciously, weighing many arguments against each other.

• For example, we use YKK zippers for our sleeping bags. They are experts in zippers and the best in the world (from Japan).
• The wool for our DownWool® or AlmWolle insulation comes from our alpine pastures in Bavaria, Austria, and Switzerland. It is very durable and perfectly suited for combination with down.
• The down is certified according to the independent RDS standard.
• For sleeping bags used in outdoor applications, robust and water-repellent outer fabrics are essential. We replace PFCs with environmentally friendly impregnations and use sustainable dyes. This is especially important to us because the toxins would enter the water cycle and our customers have a lot of skin contact with the materials.
• The majority of our materials are certified according to the OEKO-TEX® Standard 100. Being free of toxins is important to us. That's why every single part of our sleeping bags – from the outer fabric and filling to the zippers and even the print – is thoroughly tested. This is a very complex process for a sleeping bag, as it consists of many different materials. But it's worth it to us.
• Recycled materials only make sense if they retain their good properties and are durable. Such materials exist, but often too much different waste is recycled together, and the quality suffers. That's why we carefully select our recycled materials. Long durability makes more sense. 
• The yarn and outer material are abrasion-resistant and therefore suitable for regular use with a backpack.

lavalan® Alpine Wool

It is crucial for us that no sheep are tortured, neither during breeding nor during the shearing process. Therefore, we source our sheep wool from Baur Vliesstoffe from Dinkelsbühl and we are pleased about:

1. Short transport routes (sorting at local collection points, cleaning in traditional factories in Belgium and England, processing in Germany)
2. The quality of regional sheep wool and the work of Alpine shepherds are appreciated
3. Know-how about the production of wool fleece in Germany 
4. Ensuring animal welfare: Europe has the strictest animal welfare standards in the world. Legislation sets strict rules regarding feeding, husbandry, health, and appropriate behavior (sheep should always be kept in a way that ensures their physical functions and behavior are not disturbed and their adaptability is not overtaxed). For example, housing and enclosures must be provided with suitable feeding, drinking, dunging, resting, and retreat areas. Barns must be equipped with covering, exercise opportunities, grooming facilities, and climate-controlled rooms. Shearing is carried out without tail docking, also known as mulesing, which is normally required in the Southern Hemisphere. We can therefore claim that our European wool is completely mulesing-free.

Our down is RDS-certified!

Down and feathers are blended in a 90/10 ratio in our Grüezi bag products. These properties complement each other perfectly: the feather quill provides the mixture with stability and elasticity, while the down has the necessary firmness. Down feathers don't have a quill, but rather a core in the center with many soft, radially arranged barbs. These filaments (up to 2 million per down feather) keep the individual down feathers spaced apart and give them a three-dimensional structure. This creates insulating air pockets..

A brief aside: We use down with a fill power of at least 750. cuin Fill power. This means that one gram of down has a fill power of at least 25%. has a volume of cm³!

The down used to fill our sleeping bags and jackets comes from ducks and geese. These birds are subject to the strict protection of the RDS seal throughout their entire value chain. This protection begins immediately after hatching on the farms, continues throughout the bird's life, and continues through slaughter to the down producers and our sewing factories. This guarantees ethically impeccable origins.

The Responsible Down Standard is an independent, voluntary global standard that allows companies to certify their products according to the RDS, even when this is not legally required. The RDS was developed and revised over three years with the input of animal welfare groups, industry experts, brands, and retailers. The standard recognizes and rewards best practices in animal welfare.

Our DownWool clothing has the certification number RDS CU 859743, our DownWool sleeping bags the certification number IDF-25-790130.

The following standards are important for RDS:

seals and certifications

Almost all products have an OEKO-TEX® certificate.

It is important to us that everything on the product – from the thread to the zipper, prints, ribbons, etc. – is tested for harmful substances. OEKO-TEX® guarantees that the environment and people are protected.

OEKO-TEX® enables consumers and businesses to make responsible choices that preserve our planet for future generations.

Each individual item is tested in a laboratory to determine whether it is skin-friendly or contains other harmful chemicals.

The testing and certification processes behind the OEKO-TEX® standard guarantee the highest level of consumer safety.

PFC-free impregnation

 

Grüezi bag products have always been produced without chemical impregnation. We do not use PFC impregnation on the outer fabrics because we work with material know-how to water-repellent yet breathable material to obtain:

• Material: The outer fabric is robust, recycled, and lightweight nylon. It feels beautifully soft, supple, and silky against the skin.
• The nylon is pulled over hot rollers to tighten the pores. This makes the fabric down-proof and impervious to clothes moths, yet remains naturally breathable without the usual plastic coating.
• The pores of the outer material do not become clogged during the dyeing process. We primarily use the environmentally friendly BEMACID dyes from the Swiss CHT Group. 
• PFC/PFAS-free impregnation: The products are treated with a permanently water-repellent, silicone-free, and bio-based impregnation (BeSoDRY by CHT) for optimal weather protection and maximum environmental compatibility. The synthetic sleeping bags have the environmentally friendly German impregnation BIONIC-FINISH® ECO with RUCO®-DRY ECO PLUS (without perfluorinated compounds and thus preventing the release of PFOS and PFOA).
• Colors: Most products are equipped with nSustainable BEMACID dyes (C2C by CHT), biologically safe, Cradle to Cradle® and bluesign® certified.
  

DEUTIM-Waldemarie CO₂-Compensation

A healthy environment is very important to us. That is why we support DEUTIM the preservation of healthy and climate-stable mixed forests in Germany.

• We have our CO₂-Balance sheet calculated and compared with the DEUTIM CO₂-Compensation (TÜV-certified) our unavoidable CO₂emissions.
• In addition, we reforest 1 square meter of forest for every purchase made through our shop.

The reforestation is carried out through the project "Waldemarie". Transparently and playfully it becomes visible where plantings are taking place.

Drought, storm damage, and pest infestation have resulted in vast areas of bare forests in our native forests in recent years, and we are now contributing to their reforestation through our forest commitment. The establishment and maintenance of species-rich mixed forests simultaneously creates a natural CO₂-Storage that binds our corporate emissions in the forest for the long term.

Greenhouse gas balance

We are working to reduce our emissions. Our corporate carbon footprint has identified the main sources of emissions and thus helped us to derive targeted measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

More information on the greenhouse gas balance

Products made from 100% natural materials

DownWool Nature

Our customers repeatedly asked us to develop a sleeping bag that was 100% natural, from the thread to the last button. Grüezi bag has succeeded. The sleeping bag is made exclusively of wool, down, cotton, and wood.

DownWool Ice Compostable

What happens to a sleeping bag that's reached the end of its life? Straight to the trash? No, with the DownWool Ice Compostable, we've created a 100% compostable sleeping bag. It can completely decompose in 200 days under anaerobic conditions, leaving behind nothing but fine soil!

Textile veredlung

We strive to process our ecologically sustainable materials, such as down and wool, as sustainably as possible in the production process.

• The Wood fibre compounds (Lyocell fiber) of our WoodWool shirts They come from FSC-certified forests and are obtained in an environmentally conscious manufacturing process (the necessary manufacturing materials are 99,8% biodegradable).
• The silk of our SilkWool jackets is made from recycled Italian silk.
• The outer fabric of our BioCotton duvet series is made from organic cotton. The cover of the duvet series is made from 20% SMARTCEL™, a high-tech wood fiber with naturally occurring zinc oxide. SMARTCEL™ has a lasting antibacterial, odor-inhibiting, and dust mite-fighting effect, thus contributing to the protection and recovery of healthy, stressed, irritated, or diseased skin.
• The outer and inner fabric of our products Made from ultra-lightweight, durable, and recycled 20 denier 380T nylon (100% polyamide), it feels incredibly soft, supple, and silky against the skin. This is achieved by pulling the fabric over hot rollers to tighten the pores. This makes the fabric down-proof, impermeable to clothes moths, and yet remains naturally soft. breathable without the usual plastic coatingThe pores don't clog thanks to the bio-based BeSoDRY-ECO waterproofing or the sustainable BEMACRON dyes. The outer material is therefore windproof and highly water-repellent, staving off snowfall and light drizzle.
• Impregnation and color are without environmental toxins (so).

Transport routes and production facilities

• We regionalize our supply chains as much as possible. This is how DownWool® and lavalan® AlmWolle Made in Germany, the raw materials for DownWool® and AlmWolle come from Europe.
• Delivery to customers in Germany is carried out with DHL GoGreen. 
• The best sewing factories for our ultra-thin and lightweight fabrics (20 g/m²) can be found in the Shanghai region. For comparison: a sheet of paper weighs approximately 80 g/m². We are, of course, also looking for a sewing factory in Europe of equivalent quality. This would further improve our ecological footprint, save considerable transportation costs, and offer a product "Made in Europe." Unfortunately, we haven't found one yet. Since the quality of the seam directly influences the lifespan of our products, we don't want to compromise on this. A long-lasting product avoids waste and saves valuable raw materials. We like that.
• We know our producers personally and have done so for a long time, and we maintain friendly relationships with them. We know where and how our products are manufactured. This is important to us. We don't want exploitation of either people or nature.

Multifunctionality and durability

• repair service for jackets and sleeping bags as well as filling refill service.
• Easy care: The jackets and sleeping bags can be washed by hand or in the washing machine. 
• The fabric construction and manufacturing are chosen so that the material and processing quality of Grüezi bag®-products is very highRobust outer fabrics, high-quality components, yarns, and superior craftsmanship guarantee a long-lasting product. For example, a round needle and careful, slow sewing are used for the thin outer shells. The children's sleeping bags can be extended with a zipper, ensuring long-term use.
• Insulation filling with wool base allows a wide range of uses of climate zones and temperature ranges and thus multifunctionality.