Dune Bleue is adopting sustainability through innovation, having just launched a sock made from plastics from the ocean.
The new product is the result of a partnership with the Seaqual project, which collects plastic debris at sea, from fishing lines to bottles and other packaging, and transforms them into recycled yarn. And it is this recycled yarn that Dune Bleue then uses to produce the new sock that, according to Ricardo Faria, the company's CEO, "is surprisingly positive, for its quality".
During a visit to the company, Mayor Paulo Cunha pointed to Dune Bleue as an example that it is possible to create and develop projects together and still be competitive. “It is not by accident that we are the Textile City of Portugal”, he stressed.
Operating since 2005, Dune Bleue is dedicated to the creation, development and commercialisation of socks, bringing together a set of eleven segments. From the onset, the company's challenge is to add technical value to a simple product like a sock, preparing it for a specific market. Military, hospital and safety socks for Casa Real Inglesa are some of the products that it develops and that are sold worldwide with its own brand and in partnership with other brands.