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A mesh made with ceramic yarn destined to the production of sporting goods is one of the milestone products that LMA has for this years. “With us, you can run one mile more” is the slogan that the Rebordões’s company has come up with to do the marketing of this new highly technical product that is sparking curiosity near some of the most important sports brands worldwide.
“It’s not by chance that Salomon wants to start making racing leggings in Portugal,” explains Alexandra Araújo, LMA’s manager, adding that the new fabric, which uses nanotechnology in its the manufacturing process, reduces the production of lactic acid by our muscles, thus allowing the runner to run for a longer amount of time.
A ISPO, LMA presented a series of technical products that resulted of its cooperation with Smart Inovation, a Barcelos company created by two physicians and a mechanical engineer. Is that company that develops and supplies the chemical active principles that, when added to the meshes, gives them bactericidal and mosquito repellent features (among others), and are able to maintains these properties in at least 75%, even after 100 washes.
With a 30% growth in sales and harmoniously distributed in all its business segments (sport, footwear, shoes, etc.), LMA, founded in 1995 by Leandro Manuel Araújo, had in 2017 the best year ever since its creation.
“We are exhausted but happy because with our team of 49 people we were able to produce and sell so much more,” concludes Alexandra, daughter of the founder of LMA, a company that expects to close the last financial year with a turnover of more than nine million euros.