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The Ibex Clothing Company, Inc. is a producer of wool clothing designed for outdoor use, which sells its clothing through its website and retailers. The company began when Peter Helmetag and John Fernsel met in 1997, both sharing a passion for wool and the outdoors, and Ibex uses wool as the primary fabric in all of its clothing.
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The company began when Peter Helmetag and John Fernsel met one another in 1997. Both men shared a passion for wool and the outdoors. The former grew up in a strong familiarity with wool, as his great grandfather owned a wool mill in Pennsylvania. The latter was also an avid outdoor recreationalist and had developed a passion for wool because, in his words "Everything looked the same and didn't work. It was all either Gore-Tex or polyester fleece."
Ibex uses Wool as the primary fabric in all Ibex clothing. In their rather passionate support of using wool for indoor/outdoor, rugged/casual clothes, the members of Ibex cite its ability to regulate temperature, anti-microbial properties, and its resistance to wear. In addition, wool maintains all of its beneficial properties even when soaking wet. Also, wool fibers are hygroscopic, meaning they readily absorb and give off moisture. In practice, this means your wool clothing will naturally wick away sweat. As common wool has a tendency to be heavy and itchy, Merino wool is often used in the creation of lighterweight or casual products. Heavier, coarser wool is used for outerwear, such as jackets, vests, and bottoms although such garments are usually lined with the finer Merino Wool.
In addition to its dedication to natural, renewable materials, Ibex also works toward environmental empathy in its internal operations. Their most outward pursuit of environmentalism is their use of CVPS Cow Power. According to Business Wire, Ibex consumed over 36,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity in cow power over the year 2005–2006.
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Ibex built its company on a contrarian material choice. When the two founders met in 1997, outdoor clothing was dominated by synthetics, and Fernsel's complaint — that everything looked the same and did not work, and was all either Gore-Tex or polyester fleece — became the company's opening. Wool, the fiber Helmetag knew through his great grandfather's Pennsylvania wool mill, offered a different set of properties: it regulates temperature, resists odor through its anti-microbial character, resists wear, and keeps working when soaking wet, where many fabrics lose their insulation. Because wool fibers are hygroscopic, absorbing and giving off moisture, a wool garment naturally wicks sweat away from the skin.
Common wool can be heavy and itchy, so Ibex grades its fiber by garment. Merino wool, a finer wool, is used for lighter weight and casual products worn next to the skin. Heavier, coarser wool is used for outerwear such as jackets, vests and bottoms, and those garments are usually lined with the finer Merino wool, putting the comfortable fiber against the wearer and the hard-wearing fiber outside.
A company selling natural, renewable fiber has a reason to run its operations the same way, and Ibex works toward environmental care in its internal operations as well as its materials. Its most outward pursuit is the use of CVPS Cow Power, electricity generated from farm methane: according to Business Wire, Ibex consumed over 36,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity in cow power over the year 2005 to 2006.
Sold through its own website and through retailers, Ibex clothing is designed to cross the indoor and outdoor boundary — rugged and casual clothes in one fabric. That single-fiber discipline is the definition of the company: every product decision, from a base layer to a lined jacket, starts from what wool does well.
Ibex is a producer of wool clothing designed for outdoor use, sold through its website and retailers. Wool is the primary fabric in all Ibex clothing, with finer Merino wool used for lighter weight and casual products and heavier, coarser wool used for outerwear such as jackets, vests and bottoms.
Ibex cites wool's ability to regulate temperature, its anti-microbial properties and its resistance to wear. Wool maintains its beneficial properties even when soaking wet, and wool fibers are hygroscopic, meaning they readily absorb and give off moisture, so wool clothing naturally wicks away sweat.
Ibex began when Peter Helmetag and John Fernsel met in 1997. Helmetag's great grandfather owned a wool mill in Pennsylvania, and Fernsel was an avid outdoor recreationalist who had developed a passion for wool. For the year 2001, Ibex made 1.5 million dollars in sales.