About us

Our vision

We make ideas come to life that enable free movement in a vertical world

We want every user of an EDELRID product to have the pleasure and freedom of moving vertically. This is where our history, our expertise, and our passion for the future lie. This is what we are passionate about: whether at the crag, in a climbing gym, working at height, or in tree care—we share our knowledge, experience, and ideas with everyone who wants to experience the joy of free movement at height.

Our mission

Our mission is to understand every detail about the development, the use and the impact of our products and make it publicly available.

We use and share our knowledge to make the best product, reduce its environmental impact and help climbers* to consciously assess their risks.

*Climbers are all persons that move in the vertical space

We are motivated by our need to understand our own products down to the last details and thus become better and better—when using the materials, through the application to durability and sustainability. This enables all users of our products to better assess the risks of their actions and thus to move more freely in the vertical. 

As a manufacturing company, we see it as our responsibility to share our knowledge and wealth of experience. This is who we are, and we have enshrined it in our mission.

• We are a colorful bunch—a group of individuals with different characters, origins, and experiences.
• We are a rope team—we trust one another and are one big, happy family both within and outside the workplace.
• We are inventors—we have an inquisitive nature and strong motivation to develop, use, and share our knowledge.
• We are sincere—we are true to our word and work openly and honestly.

• We are thinkers and doers—we understand our trade and live for it.
• We have the drive—we achieve improvements by being passionate about our products, technology, and practical experiences.
• We bear responsibility—we use knowledge to make what we do sustainable.

The organisational anchoring of environmental management at EDELRID is ensured by the position of the Environmental Management Officer as well as by various working groups on specific environmentally relevant topics, e.g. materials, production processes, sourcing, implementation of ecological measures in the administration or occupational health and safety. These report directly to the Executive Board on a regular basis.

In order to be measurable and transparent in the area of the environment and environmental impacts, and to give ourselves the incentive to constantly improve, we have been publishing our environmental statements since 2010. With the environmental statement, we disclose, on the one hand, what is important for assessing our environmental performance and, on the other hand, with which means and measures we would like to achieve our environmental goals and have already achieved them.

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• The Customer Solutions division is an expression of our textile expertise and has been part of EDELRID ever since our establishment. This division targets companies that need a strong partner for the supply of textile braids for industrial uses and the development of customer-specific products for the field of PPE. The products extend from lines for paragliders, kites, and parachutes through technical lines used in the automotive industry to customized solutions for various drive technologies, as well as rescue and working methods.

Since 1863, we have not only been growing locally, but also beyond the borders of Isny. Whether in Germany or elsewhere in the world, we uphold the same production, safety, and quality standards. At the same time, we are still family-run as an independent business within the VAUDE Group.

This is EDELRID in a nutshell.