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Asics uses car leather offcuts for shoe range

28/01/2025
Asics uses car leather offcuts for shoe range
Automotive components supplier Toyoda Gosei has teamed up with sporting goods manufacturer Asics Corporation to produce the Skyhand OG sneakers using leather remnants generated in the steering wheel manufacturing process. 

Toyoda Gosei has been recycling its waste materials by selling products under the Re-S ethical brand, transforming difficult-to-recycle airbag fabric and steering wheel leather remnants into bags, pencil cases and shoes.

The project is Toyoda Gosei’s second collaboration with Asics, following the launch of sneakers that use airbag fabric in January 2023.

Steering wheel punching remnants generated at Toyoda’s Vietnamese factory have used by Asics’  footwear manufacturer, also in Vietnam.

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