FERRINO And ENSA, A Winning Roped Party!

Published by Mountainblog on 12/22/2016.

Thanks to the agreement with ENSA and CNSAS, Ferrino connects his R&D activities with important mountain’s professionals knowledge that means really excellence products to consumers.

ENSA (Ecole Nationale de Ski et d’Alpinisme) was born in France in 1943, it’s a public body, internationally and historically recognized,located under the Ministry of Youth and Sport. Ensa’s mission is to train all the mountain experts, during this training the study of technical gear and the “best available products on the market” is a main part of the academic program. The twenty years collaboration between Ferrinoand ENSA-Mountain and Alpinism Division ensure important tests “on the field” where Ferrino products are checked by mountain experts in order to collect useful feedbacks for products improvements. These tests, realized by people that deeply live the mountains, became synonymous of innovation and hight products quality. FerrinoequipsENSAwith backpacks like theTriolet 48+5, an alpinist-oriented model resistant and versatile, and the Lynx 30, very light and dedicated to ski mountaineering.Ferrinostipulates numerous partnership with different recognized entities, like the one born in 1998 with the CNSAS (National Body for Alpine Speleological Rescue). Born in 1954, the NSAS is now composed by about 7.000 operators spread in all the Italian territory and which represents the highest evolution of Alpine Rescue. The development of unique projects able to satisfy the technical needs of mountain experts and professionals permit to create backpacks like the Guardian 50,that is furnished to specialists and doctors of hely rescue in Val d’Aosta region.

The heart of Ferrino, leader enterprise in the outdoor sector from 146 years, is the Research & Development Department, a no-walls laboratory whose geographical limits extendsto crests, canals, peaks, glaciers and allows to develop unique, innovative and high quality projects.

INFO: Ferrino

Backpacks, tents, sleeping bags, clothes and equipment: Ferrino is one of the oldest Italian outdoor company equipped with a wide section of products. Passion, challenge and fantasy are the elements that brings Ferrino to innovate, creating always new technologies, able to resist to any weather condition. All the products are developed with the cooperation of professionals of the sector, athletes and explorers, which Ferrino supports in their personal adventures, designing in that way incredible items which comply to real and specific needs. The product quality, handled by the brand ambassadors during the design, it’s further tested by clients, at the HighLab camps where they have the possibility to try for free tents, sleeping bags and other equipments, experiencing the emotion of sleeping in high altitude, becoming a tester for a night. Today Ferrino, almost 150 after its foundation, it’s spread in approximately 40 countries all over the world and it’s a reference for mountaineers, hikers, explorers, trail runners and outdoor enthusiasts. Founded in Turin in 1870, today Ferrino has around 60 employed and it’s still managed by the same Ferrino’s family – and Rabajoli. The possibility to cooperate with important people of world of the sport in the Alps has given Ferrino the chance to create high tech products, always maintaining that artisan touch and Italian style which makes each product a jewel to be proud of, both for the company and the user.

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