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POLARLITE®
POLARLITE
Developed by Salewa many years ago, together with an Italian company that rapidly became a world leader in the manufacture of microfleece. It is constituted by extremely fine fibers (10,000 meters of a microfibre weigh max. 1 gr), which make a light, soft fleece. It is ideal for alpinism, outdoor and leisurewear.

POLARLITE® THERMIC
It is a light (it weighs 25% less than Polarlite® Classic), high quality, thermally-efficient, comfortable and wearable fleece, it dries quickly and is highly breathable.

POLARLITE® CLASSIC
It is an extremely comfortable, no-pilling, light and elastic fleece, with high thermal retention, breathable and quick-drying. It packs up small and is wearable in a variety of conditions and activities.

POLARLITE® micro
The light microfi bre member of the POLARLITE® family. Thanks to the ultrafine microfibres, the material is especially soft and light, but in relation to is weight has the best-possible heat-insulating properties.

POLARLITE® Jersey
Polarlite jersey is based on TACLITE technology: Taclite fabrics have a “double-sided” personality, with a combination of natural and synthetic fi bers (mainly cotton and polyester) that need no additional treatment to guarantee optimum moisture control. Cotton can absorb enormous amounts of moisture (~ 10% of its weight). And whereas moisture absorption for polyester fibers amounts to only ~ 0.4% of their weight, their highly networked surfaces do an excellent job of transporting it. The power of the Taclite combination lies in a predominance of synthetic fi bers on the one side, and natural fi bers on the other, so that the polyester against the skin conducts the moisture to the outer layer of cotton, from which it then evaporates.

POLARLITE® ultra print
The printed version of the proven POLARLITE® ultra. Due to its unique honeycomb structure, the material is able to absorb sweatrelated moisture extremely quickly and convey it to the outside of the fabric. There an evaporation mechanism kicks into action, ensuring quick drying of the material. This process, too, is optimised by the special surface structure.