Products
We make durable, high quality products with timeless design. From the materials we innovate to our recycling initiatives, we think of every last detail – because it’s the small details that make a big difference.
Long-lasting products
Our long-lasting products can be passed on and reused – multiple times.
The best way to reduce the environmental impact of clothing is to lengthen the time each product is in use. That’s why durability, quality, and timeless design are our top priorities in product sustainability. We want to create products that can be used by several happy kids.
Kids’ clothes, especially outdoor wear, is fit for purpose when it supports play and free movement. Often this means quite rough treatment as well, when kids crawl around and climb, and yes, sometimes trip. To ensure our products can take it, we have very strict quality standards for products and materials. The physical properties of fabrics – such as water resistance, wash durability, and rub count – are lab tested.
We use the Martindale test – mechanically rubbing the fabrics against sandpaper – to ensure the durability of our fabrics. Our minimum Martindale value requirements vary by age group, product type and price point.
Product safety
Our products are always designed to be safe to use and can often also improve kids’ safety in everyday life.
Safety has always been an integral part of our product development, design, and manufacturing processes. In 2019, we were awarded the EU Product Safety Award as a company that not only makes safe products, but also improves children’s safety through ranges of protective clothing.
Our products are designed to ensure the best mechanical and physical safety features. This means, for example, appropriate and safely designed cords and drawstrings, and detachable hoods.
Regarding chemical safety, we follow European Union and other relevant legislation on chemicals, but we have set even stricter limits for various substances. Our Restricted Substances List (RSL) specifies, which chemical substances are banned or restricted in our product and material manufacturing process. It also defines the limits for chemical substances in the finished products.
To further improve the chemical safety and reduce the environmental impacts of textile manufacturing, we became a bluesign system partner in 2020. All bluesign partners must meet strict criteria for chemical management to protect the water, air, and soil, as well as the people working with textiles. As bluesign acts as an independent verifier, the system ensures transparency and traceability of all textile processing steps, down to the raw materials.
Our clothing and footwear are made without intentionally adding PFAS. To ensure water and dirt repellency, we use nominated, fluorine-free treatments such as BIONIC FINISH Water Repellency and Teflon Ecoelite®.
Care, repair, and reuse
We encourage the repair and reuse of our easy-care products.
We have developed our products to be practical and easy to care for. One of the key objectives of our product development is improving dirt and water repellency. This reduces the need for washing: most of the time, Reima clothes can just be wiped clean, or the dirt can be sprayed off with a splash of water.
Having to wash less saves energy, water, and detergent, thus reducing the overall environmental impact of a product’s lifecycle. The dirt- and water-repellent finish in our clothing is always made without intentionally added PFAS.
Even though our products are developed to be extra durable, accidents can happen when kids really test their outerwear. We encourage customers to take good care of our products and to repair them. Our Reima Repair Kit comes with spare parts and instructions for fixing the most common wear and tear. For repairing any Reima product which is less than one year old, we are happy to send a waterproof patch or new foot loops free of charge.
Our goal is to create products that withstand rough play and are still in usable for the next kid. To promote the reuse and resale of Reima clothing, we’ve partnered up with online second hand service Ninyes. Our Reima Second hand service makes selling (in Finland and Germany, also buying) second-hand Reima gear online easier than ever.
Innovating for circularity
Recycled material, monomaterial, and regenerated fibers
We are strongly committed to improving circularity in fashion. Each year, a bigger share of the materials we use are of recycled origin, and when our products finally reach the end of their life, we hope they can be recycled and become raw material for something new.
Clothes are, however, often hard to recycle because they are made from many different fibers. Even a simple t-shirt might contain too many mixed fibers or prints to be recyclable as a whole – and performance wear is even more difficult because of the different fibers in the lining, shell, and coating. Fiber blends can’t easily be separated for recycling, so they’re less valuable as raw material.
The key in designing easily recyclable clothing is reducing the number of different materials in a product. That’s why we invested in research and development of monomaterial performance wear. Our first monomaterial jacket was introduced in spring 2020, and grew to include more jackets, pants, and soft items – all made of one material only.
Our latest milestone dates to 2023 when we designed our first product made from circular cellulosic fibers. The project resulted in launching a pilot batch of Reima hoodies – the world’s first commercial kids’ wear made with regenerated Infinna™ fiber. We’re now continuing our search for more circular solutions.