Longevity as product philosophy of our natural leather shoes
Read here about the basics, the background and the individual manufacturing steps of our products of the traditional shoecraft
Development and manufacturing of our product lines
The company's founder, Claus Beeck, has been active in shoe production and the shoe business since 1985 and, based on this experience, developed a product line for our natural leather footwear in 1991 that combines innovative ideas with traditional production, such as our Good Year shoes. The result is footwear that is characterized by the sustainability of the product itself, as well as the materials and components, and which are manufactured exclusively within the European Union under the strictest social standards. We only manufacture sustainable, high-quality shoes with our natural leathers. For this it was necessary to redevelop the components such as leathers, soles, lasts, patterns, etc. in order to combine the advantages of traditional production with the latest findings from research, technology and the latest production methods. This resulted in the natural leather product line that we developed for our shoe production. Our leathers are produced in an environmentally friendly way according to strict requirements and are extremely skin-friendly. The tanning is made free of chromium and heavy metals, without the addition of PCP or formaldehyde; solvents are no longer contained even in the finish. Despite this gentle refinement of the natural material leather, we have succeeded in meeting the highest technical requirements while maintaining the natural character of the hides.
The design and development are created in our studios in Munich and Aveiro. The serial standard is being implemented in our production in Portugal.
Our leathers are tanned in Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal according to our specifications. We also purchase all important components from our partners in these countries in order to achieve the greatest possible security, to enable a product manufactured entirely in Europe in compliance with all known standards.
“There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person’s lawful prey. It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
