Aging is a safety critical process for climbing gear. Textile components of climbing gear become weaker by environmental influences like UV radiation or dirt. Usually textile components have a maximum life span of 10 years. So you'd want to know when to exchange your device or components of it. For that reason we mark the date of manufacturing on the device. It's a serial number in encoded form that might look like this: 25106 474
The first 2 digits of this number describe the year 2025. The following digits the month, in this case 10 - October. The following digits indicate the day of the month, in this case it's the 06 of October 2025 - the following digits are an internal numbering.
