Neumühle Mono Hoodie: a sweatshirt built with its next life in mind
A hoodie made from a single material, produced locally and, according to the brand, designed for a second life. Zurich-based Neumühle explains how it's meant to work.
What it is
The Mono Hoodie is a hooded sweatshirt from Neumühle, a brand based in Zurich. It comes in sizes S, M, L and XL, and carries the reference 70MH0SDS. It’s an everyday piece, aimed at people who want a hoodie they can wear for years rather than replace after one season.
Neumühle positions itself as a brand built around circularity and local production. The Mono Hoodie fits that concept: it’s not just another garment, but according to the brand, one designed from the outset for a second life. Buying it means buying not just a sweatshirt, but also the idea that this piece won’t end up as waste once its life is over.
Why it exists
The problem Neumühle is addressing is a familiar one: clothing made from several materials is difficult to recycle at the end of its life. A hoodie made of cotton, polyester and elastane, for instance, first needs to be separated before recycling can even happen – if it’s possible at all. Often, despite good intentions, this kind of mixed fabric simply ends up incinerated.
Neumühle says the Mono Hoodie was deliberately built around a single material to solve exactly this problem. The idea: a garment designed from the ground up for recycling, rather than sorted as an afterthought at the end of its life. Local production, the brand says, follows the same logic – shorter distances, less transport involved.
What matters
A single material. Neumühle presents the Mono Hoodie as a product designed from the start for future recycling, built around a single material. For customers, this means that at the end of its useful life, the piece should be easier to recycle than a hoodie made from several different fabrics.
Local production. According to Neumühle, the hoodie is produced locally, over a distance of 850 km. That’s a concrete figure that limits transport distances – a point that isn’t a given for many garments that travel halfway around the world.
Durability. The brand describes the hoodie as soft, thick and designed to be worn for several years. That’s a claim made by Neumühle itself, not an independent assessment – but it does point to the product’s direction: built for longevity, not fast consumption.
Take-back programme. Neumühle states that it runs a take-back programme for returned pieces. This is a measure that actively factors in the end of the garment’s life, rather than leaving that entirely to the customer.
Repair instead of discarding. Neumühle says it gives its products a second life through repair, with 228 pieces repaired so far. This figure reflects activity across the brand’s collections as a whole, not specifically the Mono Hoodie.
ECONYL® yarn and CO2 footprint. Neumühle states that, since 2018, using ECONYL® yarn instead of conventional nylon has avoided 20,075 kg of CO2 emissions, and that over the same period, 3,361 kg of waste has been recycled into regenerated ECONYL® yarn. These figures relate to the brand’s overall footprint since 2018, not to a single garment, but they do give a sense of the scale of the commitment.
Day to day
The Mono Hoodie is worn like any regular sweatshirt and comes in four sizes, from S to XL.
The brand clearly describes what happens at the end of the garment’s life: once you no longer wear the hoodie, Neumühle says you can return it through the take-back programme and benefit from a bonus. Alternatively, the brand offers a repair service to extend the piece’s lifespan rather than replace it. With that in mind, the Mono Hoodie is designed not just for the time it’s worn, but also for what comes after.
Technical specifications
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Product reference | 70MH0SDS |
| Production distance | 850 km (local production) |
| Available sizes | S, M, L, XL |
| CO2 avoided since 2018 (per brand) | 20,075 kg |
| Waste recycled into ECONYL® yarn since 2018 (per brand) | 3,361 kg |
| Pieces repaired (per brand) | 228 |
What the brand says
Neumühle describes the Mono Hoodie as soft, thick and designed to be worn for several years. The brand also says the piece was designed from the ground up for future recycling, built around a single material.
The brand has been reporting a cumulative record of its commitment since 2018: 20,075 kg of CO2 avoided through the use of ECONYL® yarn instead of conventional nylon, 3,361 kg of waste recycled into regenerated ECONYL® yarn, and 228 pieces repaired through its repair service.
For readers in Switzerland
Neumühle has its showroom in Zurich. The brand designs its garments, including the Mono Hoodie, with circularity and local production in mind – an approach that comes straight from Switzerland.
Why it caught our eye
What we liked is that Neumühle thinks about the end of the garment's life from the very start, instead of leaving that entirely to the customer. The combination of a single material, local production and a take-back programme with a bonus feels like a considered whole, not a selling point bolted on afterwards. The CO2 and waste figures reported since 2018 also show that the brand's commitment has been ongoing for years, not something adopted overnight.
Exactly the kind of brand we’d love to come across on O!deal one day.
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