Voormi: How a ‘Textile Technology’ Company Does Outdoor Apparel
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Voormi is not interested in being just another outdoor apparel company. They develop their own textiles inhouse; they manufacture in the United States; and they’ve got some big plans. So we sat down in Blister HQ with Timm Smith, their head of materials development, to learn more about the Voormi story and where the brand is heading.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Voormi’s origin story (2:02)
- Materials (11:19)
- Highlighting some specific products (19:43)
- Manufacturing Processes (25:21)
- River Run Hoodie (26:17)
- Voormi Socks (31:46)
- Manufacturing in the USA (36:45)
- “Responsible” production (39:04)
- Where will Voormi be in 10 years? (47:30)
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're up to, including all of our |
| 0:16.9 | other podcasts, over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:22.6 | Now, our guest this week is Tim Smith, who is the chief technology officer and the head |
| 0:28.7 | of materials development at Vorme, which Tim describes as a textile technology company |
| 0:35.5 | that makes outdoor apparel. Now, if that doesn't exactly |
| 0:39.7 | sound like the typical description of a company that makes apparel for skiing and mountain |
| 0:44.4 | biking and fishing and the gamut of outdoor pursuits, you'd be right. And I would suggest that |
| 0:50.7 | you listen closely to what else Tim has to say in this conversation, because |
| 0:55.9 | Vormi definitely isn't trying to be just another outdoors apparel company. |
| 1:01.7 | They develop their own textiles in-house, they manufacture their products in the United |
| 1:07.4 | States, and they've got a bunch of big plans. |
| 1:11.2 | So if you care about gear and you like geeking out about the details, |
| 1:15.7 | which of course is probably why you're listening to this podcast in the first place, |
| 1:19.8 | well, then I think that you are going to really want to learn more about the Vormi story |
| 1:24.7 | and what the brand is up to. |
| 1:27.4 | Tim came out to Crested Butte this week to |
| 1:29.9 | sit down with me in Blister HQ for this conversation. And at some point tomorrow, that would |
| 1:36.5 | be Saturday, August 15th, you will be able to head over to our Blister YouTube channel to |
| 1:43.1 | watch a video of my conversation with Tim and take a look |
| 1:47.4 | at several of the Vormi products that Tim and I are going to be discussing today. |
| 1:53.1 | And so with that, let's now go ahead and get to my conversation with Tim Smith. |
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