EDELRID NEO 3R Rope

Until now, that is. After six years of painstaking research, Edelrid has found a way to do so. While simply recycling the plastics in ropes to make other products is relatively straightforward, recycling them to create dynamic ropes is far more difficult. There are quality issues involved—the recycling process generally leads to lower quality material—and safety issues; climbers’ lives are literally on the line. But Edelrid managed to create a production process that ground up re-used pre-consumer rope—essentially they put leftover rope back into the production cycle—and turned it into agglomerate, which they then re-granulated. This was spun into a high-strength yarn. Then they had to figure out how to complement that yarn with other suitable recycled and new materials so that the levels of strength and elongation necessary for a high performance dynamic rope could be achieved.