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Nov
26
2018
Fluorochemical-free shoe design
Andreas Settele

LEAVE NOTHING BUT FOOTPRINTS with Hanwag Eco-Shell Footwear. The footwear in our Active Winter Collection all combine high functionality with a design suitable for everyday use. These high-quality and highly durable winter boots and shoes guarantee to keep your feet warm and dry in the cold and wet months.

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Jul
12
2018
#stayfitgethealthy – Our partnership with Outdoor Against Cancer
Anna-Lena Angermeier

Living a full and healthy life is such a privilege. For the Hanwag team, we are incredibly lucky that our passion and profession are one and the same.

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Mar
27
2018
Introducing: Hanwag Women’s Alliance 2018
Anna-Lena Angermeier

Designed by women for women: Additional female input for its Spring / Summer 2018 women’s models. Maggy and Anja from You Are An Adventure Story and Petra Thaller give our team some insights about what women really want.

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Feb
01
2018
What do winter tyres and our winter footwear have in common?
Andreas Settele

My kids love fresh, sticky snow. I love fresh, sticky snow. Snow that’s soft and wet, that creaks and squeaks under your feet, or your car tyres. It’s the best snow for leaving tracks – where you see every detail of your footprint. We wanted to develop winter footwear that works on both sticky snow … Continued

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Jul
07
2017
Tough on the outside, soft on the inside
Thomas Dirlenbach

Hanwag mountain and trekking footwear is made of a wide range of different materials. We select each of them carefully and apply them specifically. Choosing the right lining in your shoe means greater comfort and having the best possible wear climate for your feet. We make our linings from leather, GORE-TEX® or special fabric – … Continued

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Jun
13
2017
What’s the secret of a perfect fit?
Andreas Settele

Finding the perfect fit is the most important criteria when choosing new footwear. This is something we live and breathe at Hanwag. When my colleagues in the marketing department asked me to blog about the secret of the Hanwag perfect fit, I had to chuckle. You see, there is no one, single secret behind it. … Continued

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Feb
23
2017
From Tibet to Bavaria
Thomas Dirlenbach

Among our footwear, you’ll find one product line made from a unique material with a special story to tell – our Hanwag Yak collection. But what makes yak leather so special? The answer lies in the mountains of Asia, in Tibet…

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Feb
14
2017
Hanwag and Heinen – working towards sustainability in long-lasting partnership
Thomas Dirlenbach

Hanwag has been making mountain boots since 1921. That’s a fair old while. However, our partner, the Heinen tannery goes back even further. It has been producing unique and particularly high-quality leather since 1891. We’re proud of this partnership and would like to tell you more about Heinen…

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Jan
31
2017
Leather – A simple yet effective natural material
Anna-Lena Angermeier

Durable. Functional. Comfortable. It might seem surprising, but despite the ongoing march of technology, there is still no better material than leather for making high-quality mountain and trekking boots. This was the case when Oetzi the iceman walked the Alps and it remains the case today. However, not all leather is the same…

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Jan
29
2017
Thermal Insulation: Theory vs. Practice
Anna-Lena Angermeier

Take a look at the Hanwag website and you’ll see that some of our Winter and Alpin models have temperature details for their thermal insulation. We asked Johann Friedl, footwear designer at Hanwag, to explain what this information tells us…

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