DANTE DETAILS

Like Dante’s journey, the path to making the most sustainable wetsuit is no easy feat, but if you don’t commit to the path, you can never arrive at your destination. The Dante with Ocena follows Matuse’s mantra of making products Ichiban (the best) by looking forward, developing materials and construction in the most sustainable ways.

Matuse’s Ocena Rubber is made with Eco Carbon Black additive recycled from post-consumer scrap tires in combination with water-based adhesives for fabric lamination, instead of conventional solvent-based glues. This eliminates Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) and maintains bonding strength aka the durability you expect from Matuse.

We skip traditional dyeing processes, opting for dope-dyeing yarn to add colour before yarn extrusion to save energy and water. To minimise waste, all of our trimmed edges from cutting wetsuit patterns are reused to produce more Ocena sheets that make our Matuse products.

The Dante with Ocena is fair-trade certified and is the next generation of responsible building that doesn’t sacrifice on the performance you expect.