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Bilio was founded in 2015 by Billy Smith, deploying decades of professional and garage-based experience from launching Sporting-Sails and creating first-generation products at Patagonia and Apple.

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Nick Smith, brother, lifelong collaborator, co-founder and co-inventor of Sporting-Sails, Bilio Bag, and Bilio Mask, joined to shape the values and vision a year later. Together, they soar.

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Unbound by convention, our vertically integrated Double-Loop of Infinite Possibilities is rooted in a simple philosophy: Materials First

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Still founder-owned, we build everything directly with industry leading partners who presently reimagine a better future.

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Intentionally slow to scale, our Berkeley, California location is an embodiment of three principled spaces: Head, Hands, Heart.

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Head: Progenitorial materials library, design of experiments and prototype archive, environmental lifecycle database, and an expansive global network.

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Hands: Material application studio, product development lab, testing facility, reserved production lines, shipping station, receiving dock, and reclamation hub.

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Heart: Private design and business innovation workshops, secure project rooms, local art gallery, surf museum, books, music, and flowers.

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Described by long-time material partner, Toray Industries, the renowned century-old Japanese inventors behind Ultrasuede:

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“Bilio represents thoughtful, deliberate innovation. When we come together, creation expands endlessly.”

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As a team, we radically define the art of modern craft through custom machines, lab-built tools, traditional techniques, and technical mastery in:

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assembling, automating, bending, blasting, blending, bonding, braiding, cleaning, coating, covering, creasing, crimping, cutting, debossing, disassembling, drilling, drying, dyeing,

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embroidering, extruding, fastening, filling, finishing, forming, fusing, knitting, laminating, linking, machining, molding, patterning, pleating, pressing, printing, punching, recycling,

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reprocessing, repurposing, reusing, quilting, sheathing, shrinking, sealing, sewing, skiving, splitting, steaming, taping, tooling, treating, twisting, validating, weaving, wiring, and more.

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The mission is for the good of People and Planet. It is a living collaboration between trusted leaders of materials, design, and manufacturing brave enough to work, learn, and grow together.

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How we do anything is how we do

Everything

But to succeed, all you have to do is

Something

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