Patagonia invests in coating technology

Patagonia has taken a 15 percent equity stake in AeonClad Coatings, a nanotechnology specialist, with whom it will develop water-repellent down garments. Patagonia first entered into a partnership with the firm, a portfolio company of Emergent Technologies, in 2010, when the two companies established an R&D laboratory in Austin, Texas, ...

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