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🌍♻️ Are you looking for solutions for your textile waste? ♻️🌍 At VAER, we're passionate about upcycling, innovation and collaborations. We're still thrilled about our latest partnership with STARK, where we've transformed their old workwear into brand new sneakers and hopefully soon caps! 🌟👟🧢 The great thing about this partnership is also looking into further collaborations where I Tråd Med Verden are able to use some of the leftover textiles from our production, to make other products that we cannot make. And Kvadrat reused the rest to make tabletops 👽 What's not to love? 💚 This collaboration is a perfect example of how businesses can join forces to reduce textile waste and create sustainable solutions. By repurposing their textiles, we not only give these materials a second life but also contribute to a greener future. 🌱✨ If your business is looking for effective ways to manage textile waste VAER is here to help! Together, we can make a significant impact on the environment and showcase the power of sustainable practices. 🤝💼 Learn more about our innovative approach and partnership with STARK in this insightful article: Gammelt arbejdstøj bliver fornyet til tøj, sko og bordplader. Let's create a future together where we are able use all of our existing resources! 🌍💚 #Sustainability #TextileWaste #CircularEconomy #VAER #Innovation #B2B #EcoFriendly #GreenBusiness #Partnerships

Last week we were one of the 4 case companies that participated in Circular Design Camp at LOOP Forum! We had 4 groups of amazing students working on finding solutions to our challenge - "how can we help more companies upcycle their discarded workwear and textiles?" 🤔 The solutions that they came up with were so good - which made it really hard to decide who should win. In the end we chose the group La' Vær - but luckily one of our groups (Feminature Regulators) got picked as the overall winner of the 25.000 DKK, so we bascially had two winners! 🥳 Thank you to Regndans and LOOP Forum for the opportunity, we absolutely loved being a part of Circular Design Camp! We are so excited to move forward with the 4 ideas with the students! It was also such a pleasure getting to know the people from Danfoss, KLS PurePrint A/S and Electronic Reuse and Recycling!

We have been awarded the Visa She's Next grant! 🥳 A little while ago, we got the best phone call ever, where Paula Ståhlberg told us that VAER had been chosen as one of the recipients of the She's Next grant. There have been around 2500 applicants, so we are incredibly grateful to be chosen as one of the female-led start-ups, where they see a big scaling potential! This grant consists of 10,000 EUR and access to mentorship via IFundWomen. We can't wait to put both to good use - so we can give a new life to even more discarded textiles! A huge congratulations to the two other recipients from Denmark: - Anna Riis Hedegaard from The 0-Mission 🌱 - Hanne Jarmer from Go Dogo 🐶 We are very honored to be in the company of such inspiring women! Hereby a big recommendation to check them and their start-ups out. Lastly, we want to say a big thank you to Visa for this grant and for empowering female entrepreneurs! 💪 #femaleentrepreneurship #visashesnext #dkstartup

Exciting News! 🎉 We are beyond excited to announce that VAER has been granted Innobooster funding from Innovationsfonden! 🚀✨   As many of you probably know, scalable textile upcycling is the core of what we do here at VAER - and now the time has come to enable other companies working with textiles to upcycle at scale as well! The goal is to transform tablecloths and duvet covers from our long-time partner Elis Danmark, into an upcycled textile roll! ♻️ (It is btw their textiles we are wearing as capes in the picture)   We will explain much more in future posts, but for now, we just want to clarify an important thing. We will not be shredding the textiles. By upcycling, we mean that we will use the textiles as they are. More value retained and fewer resources used 💪   This project is very different from what we have previously developed in VAER, and requires much more technical knowledge. Therefore, we are grateful to have very competent forces on board, with both Anette Werner from Teknologisk Institut and Poul-Erik Jørgensen from VIA University College as project partners.   A big thank you goes out to Innovationsfonden for believing in this project. However, it takes a killer application to get an Innobooster, and therefore we also owe the biggest thank you to Nicholas Mohr Krøyer, Tim Washington and Lars Danscher for helping us with the application. Without you, it would probably have taken many more tries!🌟   #Innovation #Upcycling #TextileIndustry #InnoboosterFunding #ExcitingTimes  

VAER is a part of VIA's (VIA Design og Business) new Textile Lab, which showcases different examples of responsible production and business models for the textile industry of the future. We are super proud to be a part of this exhibition. We were a part of the opening ceremony, where we got the opportunity to talk about VAER's journey and how we make textile upcycling scalable ♻ Congratulations to Tina Cecilie Bull Nielsen and VIA for an amazing exhibition and opening event!

Transforming workwear into upcycled sneakers ♻ 2023 has been the year where we at VAER have ventured even further into the world of some amazing B2B collaborations. The sneakers you see here are from our collaboration with the Danish company STARK - made from their old workwear and very popular with the STARK employees :) This kind of collaboration is such a win-win situation. The companies prevent their old workwear from being wasted and we get to transform good quality workwear textiles into unique upcycled sneakers. As the companies take responsibility for the end-of-life journey of their textiles and buy back sneakers made from their own workwear, it creates a unique opportunity for a hands-on conversation about sustainability throughout the whole organisation. VAER is on a mission to give new life to as many discarded textiles as possible. Do you know a company that could be interested in a collaboration where they get upcycled sneakers made from their old workwear? Tag them in this post or reach out to us at [email protected] 

Graffiti inspired by our upcycled sneakers?? 👀 Yes - we might not really believe it ourselves, but our VAER x Europcar sneakers are being reinterpreted as graffiti art all around Germany at the moment! If you are curious to find out more about the collaboration or see the sneakers behind the graffiti art - you can see more here: https://lnkd.in/evGuJ7vq Graffiti artists: @noiztwo_ffc @vidamstudio @fuegofatal @biatschgraffiti Europcar FAKTOR 3 AG Mandy Ott Sven Labenz Henrik Spliedt

THE NEW 💚 VAER x EUROPCAR 💚 SNEAKER IS HERE! We have been so excited to launch this new collaboration with Europcar Germany (Europcar), who wanted to find solutions to their worn-out uniforms. This started with a massive collection of their employees' old uniforms - and resulted in these awesome VAER x Europcar sneakers. Most of the sneakers we have produced in this round are for Europcar's own employees, which we think is amazing! It is so important that companies take responsibility for their own waste - so the fact that they are buying back the sneakers made from their old uniforms is a huge win! 💪 You can read much more about the collaboration and check out the sneakers (yes, there are two versions) here: https://lnkd.in/evGuJ7vq Emma Hjortdal Helene Hsu Henrik Spliedt Miriam Grether Mandy Ott