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The French company specialised in the design, knitting and manufacture of socks is a family business founded in the late 1930s and currently led by the grandson of the founder. The company has invested since 2006 in the latest machines, developing new techniques and constantly training its teams in order to ensure the transmission of know-how. The firm manufactures over 1 million pairs of socks per year in the purest tradition of French hosiery and sells them through different types of distribution channels: large-scale distribution, selective network, high-quality network and on the web. As the production cycle generates many defective socks, the company has decided to recycle its post-production waste. Therefore, the socks are defibred and a new thread is produced in order to remake new socks. The company's strategy is to work in a circular economy and to reuse its post-production waste by upcycling them and making eco-friendly products contributing then to protect at its level the environment and reduce the carbon footprint. The company has good references in France in the socks sector and has extended its business on the international scene.The firm is now willing to offer its recycled yarn and recycled socks on the European market.