MATERIALS
Our Research & Development
Department has always been one of the key components in Stonefly's
success, and every year the company invests in this department
more than 5% of its total sales. In our Comfort Laboratory
,
we combine various skills and know-how to create avant-garde
product with special features that favor the efficiency of the
foot and that are, at the same time, in keeping with the most
up-to-date trends in style with the expertise known as
"Made-in-Italy ". Through lengthy research, Stonefly has
identified the five most important factors in shoe comfort:
thermo-regulation (the control of heat), hydro-regulation (the
control of moisture inside the shoe, shock-absorption (which
eliminates micro-trauma), anti-stress (which eliminates fatigue)
and bio-equilibrium (which protects the foot's natural
physiological balance). These are the fundamental parameters
around which is bases the development of our companies projects.
Each footwear model is made and tested through group sampling so
as to monitor in use performance and the degree of reliability and
effectiveness of the shoe's construction and of the materials
utilized. This carefully managed process enables us to attain our
objective of greatest possible comfort and optimum quality, an
objective that is at the very basis of the Stonefly business
philosophy. As a result of this research, the company has
developed innovative ideas that revolutionize the concept of
footwear for city use: Shockair
, a system of active air exchange inside the shoe, which
allows the foot to breathe freely under any conditions; footwear
incorporating Gortex
©, a waterproof and breathable
material, of which our company is one of the world's leading
exponents; and Blusoft
, an ingenious shock absorption
system.
- Created By: Ashleigh Maclise and Sumana
Chatterjee
- Maintained by: amaclise@wellesley.edu
- Date Created: 24 November,
1999
- Last Modified: 24 November,
1999
- Page Expires: 22 December,
1999