OUR HISTORY

Raidlight was founded by Benoit Laval, a textile product designer and a world-class trail runner. The design and manufacturing tools in one hand, the practical and sporting experience in the other, the desire to make his own prototypes was obvious. Raidlight began like many other start-ups, in a garage, 10 products, a small website and 2 trestle tables at races.

Meet our current team of about twenty employees based in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the heart of the mountains.

Marco Olmo, a legend of UTMB®, competing over many years, up to 60 years old. With Raidlight he designed a range of ultra-light and practical packs with front bottle holders. Raidlight has always based its development on performance and product innovation.

Raidlight becomes the first brand to create a real social network around its customers and their common passion, the trail. The Team, open to all, has attracted several thousand members who have participated in the communication and promotion of Raidlight throughout the world.

Raidlight has this intuitive DNA of collaborative design since 1999, thanks to listening to runners, direct discussion with end users on the internet, and a strong presence on the trail. In 2008, Raidlight developed its open innovation and design with users by setting up a collaborative R&D platform.

Benoit LAVAL is runner up at the French trail championships, wearing Raidlight of course! he joins the French trail running team.

Raidlight intègre dans son périmètre la marque Vertical, marque de vêtements de ski de randonnée et d’alpinisme, et à la membrane MP+ qui est aujourd'hui présente sur tous nos produits imperméables.

Creation of the Outdoor Lab, an eco-responsible building located at an altitude of 1000m in the heart of the Chartreuse Massif, grouping together the head office, the factory shop, the R&D workshop open to customers and the first Trail Station in Europe.

Trail routes marked out around a base station, showers, changing rooms, equipment to be tested free of charge for runners, a website and a geolocation smartphone application complete the system for a perfect trail running experience.

The desire to re-shore and create a local production facility Raidlight created a textile production facility Using modern technologies, such as laser cutting, thermo-bonding and sublimation printing.

Located in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, this workshop employed a dozen people who manufactured more than 30,000 items per year.

Raidlight integrates into Rossignol Group

Launch of the new range of trail shoes incorporating Dual+ technology. A dual density system that gives increased shock absorption and support, giving increased comfort and better energy transfer.

Raidlight and Vertical take back independence, managed by Benoit Laval, in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, with about twenty employees.

In 2022, 60% of our products are made using recycled materials. About 10% of our range is manufactured in France.

Our goal: To increase our local production "Made in the French Alps" and 90% of our products to use recycled materials.