AKU

ITALIAN BOOTMAKERS

AKU is a family run company founded over 40 years ago by Galliano Bordin, shoemaker in Montebelluna, core of the Italian outdoor footwear industry. Since the beginning, passion, experience and creativity are the values that shape the personality of a company fully committed to save the legendary Italian craftmanship tradition.

The localism is a value at AKU, not a limit. Today the company headquarter and first factory is still operating in Montebelluna, Italy. The second facility, built and owned by AKU since 2000, is located in Romania and other two in Serbia. So that, most of the products of the collection are made in Europe and fully traceable since the origin. Moreover, according with the company policy, raw materials and product components are mainly from local and premium suppliers.

MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGIES

Every model of AKU is a combination of traditional handcraft experience with modern technical solutions. From the leather selection to the deep research over the comfort fitting and biodynamic engineering: the responsible approach is since ever the main warranty offered by AKU to the end user about reliability of its products.

Still today more than 80% of the collection, from mountaineering to multiterrain, is fully handmade with care and precision according with the epic Italian handcraft tradition. The handmade assembling allow the resoling, giving to the boot a longer life when the upper is still in good condition.

“We feel part of a single ecosystem, social and environmental,

we feel responsible for its balance”

This short sentence summarizes the sense of AKU’s commitment. A commitment that goes beyond the simple fact of producing outdoor footwear capable of respecting the highest functional performance and which is expressed, in terms of environmental sustainability, in the constant search for innovative design solutions, aimed at containing the environmental impact, to promote the responsible use and reuse of resources, with a view to increasingly focused on the principles of the circular economy.