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Bio Based Eyewear – Spektrum

The Spektrum Blank model offers the highest level of lightweight protection and comfort with an optimized lens shape to halt damaging rays before they reach your retina.

Wrapping close to your head, Blank is made for speed. Built for extended active use, be it running, biking or climbing the Zeiss grey base lens is ideal for prolonged use during bright and sunny days. This lens offer visual protection from high reflections, delivers the greatest visual comfort and natural perception without any colour distortion. The Zeiss brown base contrast lens is ideal for sunny to cloudy days and offer the best visual contrast, brilliance of colours and image definition in a mountain environment.

FRAME

  • Bio-based (castor oil) high performance Polyamide frame
  • Exchangeable lens system

OPTICS

  • Performance lens from Carl Zeiss with ultimate UV-protection and maximum clarity
  • Ri-Pel water repellent and anti-scratch lens coatings
  • Extremely impact resistant lens

FIT

  • Rubberized, hypoallergenic non-slip fully adjustable temples
  • Exchangeable hypoallergenic rubber nose pads (2 sizes) for optimized fit

PRIMARY LENS

  • Zeiss Infrared
  • Category: S3
  • VLT: 16%

To ensure a perfect fit with a wide variety of faces our performance eyewear comes with exchangeable rubber nose pads. Two pairs are included with every model to accommodate both wider and more narrow fits in the best possible way.

We always strive to make Spektrum products more sustainable and that has led us to the use of bio-based materials derived from plants for our production. 

For our Performance Eyewear collection this means constructing our frames in polyamide made from oil extracted from the amazing castor bean. Our high-performance frames are made mainly from castor oil and reduces the overall CO2 emissions by an impressive 46% compared to conventional materials.

THE BIO-BASED PROCESS

For our Performance Eyewear collection this means constructing our frames in oil extracted from the amazing castor bean. Our high-performance frames are made mainly from castor oil and reduces the overall CO2 emissions by an impressive 46% compared to conventional materials. The carbon in castor oil is also 100% derived from atmospheric CO2 and not from CO2 locked in ancient fossils. Our material is also lighter and more durable than comparable materials delivering increased performance and comfort.

Castor beans are a fantastic crop, able to thrive in meager soils where other plants won’t survive, or animals can graze. Our castor beans are fully traceable, sustainably grown in India and poses no competition with food, causes no deforestation, or use any GMO.

It starts with a bean…

MAKING THE SUSTAINABLE CHOICE

The foundation of our products lays in excellent and clean functional design with high quality in materials, details and finish. We design all our products at our office in Åre with a distinct Spektrum aesthetic. A crisp, fresh and smart style that has durable performance as its primary objective and that never compromise on functionality. Spektrum products are always functional, stylish and long lasting. 

Our vision is to become the world’s most sustainable performance eyewear brand and by doing so give you a better, and cleaner, way to enjoy nature. Ambitious, we know, but the way we see it there is really no alternative. Having lived our whole lives in the mountains we have seen the impact mankind has had on our nature first hand and we are determined to minimize the footprint of our actions.

OUR MISSION

The ever-ongoing quest to make Spektrum products ever more sustainable has led us to the use of bio-based materials derived from plants throughout our collections. Our frames are made of plant-based non-food derivates from castor oil. Through our process they are modified into polymers and become pellets that are injected with colour. The dye process ensures a superior durability and depth of colour for all our frames. This vastly improves colour performance, durability and scratch resistance. The process also spares workers and our environment from exposure to hazardous solvents and chemicals. The details on our frames are made out non-food resin and castor bean derivates. In total, 64% of our goggle is made out of bio-based materials.

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Interested in becoming a Spektrum retailer, contact:

[email protected]


07788550191

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