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MORE ODOR CONTROL THAT IS NONSENSE

Montane, Rab and Dakine Brands Adopt Polygiene Odor Control Technology for Pack and Sleeping Bag Product Categories

Polygiene’s freshness technologies to enter backpack and sleeping bag product categories for the first time

From their perspective you will never have to wash your bag or so they think.

MALMO, Sweden - July 21, 2017

Polygiene®, the world leader in odor control and freshness technologies, announces outdoor brands Montane and Rab as new adopters of its ingredient odor technology. Polygiene’s innovative fabric treatment will be incorporated into a series of trail and alpine running packs from Montane for Spring 2018 and currently for an early Fall 2017 release of a new technical sleeping bag from Rab. This marks the first time that Polygiene has entered both the pack and sleeping bag product categories.

I never heard of the polygiene chemical until this week. I guess Swedes are people with terrific ability to generate odor. Imagine backpacks that must be treated so they do not absorb the odor produced by the person wearing the backpack. I have never heard of such nonsense before. As for sleeping bags outside of Wiggy’s telling people to wash their Wiggy’s bag not one other company that I know of does. So it becomes necessary to hide the odor that is acquired by all of the other sleeping bags sold, enter polygiene. Does it smell like the great outdoors?

Currently, Polygiene is partnered with Rab for an early launch of a Fall 2017 technical sleeping bag, the Neutrino. The Rab Neutrino is a minimalist, down-filled sleeping bag designed for mountaineering, backpacking and multi-day adventures where the warmth-to-weight ratio is of prime concern. It becomes the first sleeping bag on the market to incorporate Polygiene’s anti-microbial fabric treatment.

And the treatment is antimicrobial to boot. I am sure once those microbes get into the down they find s wonderful home to reproduce but polygiene to the rescue to kill off the microbes which now putrefy in the down causing an unpleasant odor. This is like government creating a problem and then trying to fix it, doesn’t happen does it?

Available in four weights, the Neutrino sleeping bag is hand-filled in Derbyshire with high-quality Hydrophobic European goose down. Lightweight Pertex Quantum, a lightweight yet durable fabric to ensure maximum loft without increasing the weight.

Hand filled down bags, haven’t heard of that for years. Is this down from the birds that were treated humanely before they had their heads chopped off.

Von Uthmann remarks, “Our partnership with Rab marks the first time Polygiene technology has been incorporated into a highly technical and performance driven sleeping bag collection.”

Highly technical, not at all, just another down bag that does not work as is described in their literature, why should it since no down bag works as is described by the seller of the product.

Polygiene is a bluesign® approved, silver-salt treatment for textiles. Derived from recycled content (silver mostly from used electronics), Polygiene reduces the need for frequent laundering, saving water and energy, as well as time, over the life cycle of apparel.

So it is not necessary to wash the bag very much now that it is loaded with silver-salt. I have known of people who have used their down bag for many years and never bothered to launder it. I have yet to find out who the bluesign company is if it is a company and how they became an organization that approves stuff in the outdoor industry and or other industries. I think it is incredible to find out that people have no confidence in what they do (and it may be real that they don’t know) and have to rely on third party confirmation even though the third party is equally ignorant of what they do. Vicious circle I guess.

I shall reiterate what I have said since the inception of starting Wiggy’s; when you buy a Wiggy’s bag your only obligation is to launder it when it gets dirty. If you use it every weekend for a year I expect that you would have washed it 52 times. I also have told people if you don’t intend to wash it don’t buy it. Why; because dirt and oil from your body will get into the Lamilite and cause it to lose loft which means loose of insulation. Need I say more?