ALPINA SPORTS Prolan

Where everything is white in winter, the slopes are steep and they pursue their favourite pastime of carving turns in the snow, sheep graze in summer. Big sheep, small sheep, white and black. They all have one thing in common: wool. A sustainable raw material that has not only protected generations of people from the cold, but was also a valuable commodity and still is among mountain peoples. In recent years, wool has been replaced by synthetic fibres as a material for sportswear. Now this warming, protective, natural and sustainable material is experiencing a renaissance. The developers at Alpina have created something unique in collaboration with lavalan, a Bavarian wool producer near Dinkelsbühl: Prolan. Wool that protects. Not just from the cold, bad odours or plastic in the sea. Prolan is sheep's wool that has been processed in such a way that its cushioning properties go beyond the functionality of conventional protectors. What sounds incredible at first has been tested in numerous tests and confirmed by TÜV. The new Alpina protector with Prolan fulfils the 1621-2 Level 1 standard. Prolan is an innovation that has not been seen in the sports industry for a long time.