“I am an artisan and I have been part of the production of toquilla straw hats since I was 6 years old. Due to low prices and lack of orders, I decided to sell my hats in the city of Cuenca, where I found the company Exportadora K. Dorfzaun. They help us with orders on a constant basis, at a fair price and respect our art. Thanks to this system, K. Dorfzaun has allowed our community to continue with the tradition and receive a fair pay for our work.”

“I work in the recollection of hats for the company. I have collaborated with the company for more than 24 years making sure that the hats meet the characteristics and quality that is needed and promised to our clients. I got to know the company thanks to my husband, who also worked there for a long time. In my opinion, K. Dorfzaun is one of the best companies in the city of Cuenca. They have always treated us fairly, worked responsibly and above all, they value our work, which gives us economic stability that has allowed us to have a stable life.”

“I plan to open a boutique in two cities of Kazakhstan, Almaty in the south and Nursultan in the north, I hope it will work out soon no doubt your style of work, the quality of hats is the best that I have ever worked with, I worked with Austria as a distributor, with China, India, Russia, now I know Ecuador, I can say you are the best in terms and of the human factor.”

“When I hold a hat with the K. Dorfzaun stamp, it transmits a lot of love and the warmth of the people who have worked on that hat. I had the opportunity to know the process of making the hat and the people who are part of it. The beauty of their work and the way they carry out collaborative work, as if it were a family, makes the hat even more precious. I am always excited to see the emotions that people transmit knowing that they are part of this Ecuadorian tradition and the great effort they put into their daily work. Each hat is unique, whether it is the same size or the same style because all of them are made 100% by Ecuadorian hands, from a tradition that runs hundreds of years in the Ecuadorian soil.”

“I have been working at K. Dorfzaun since 1989 and during all this time I have been able to see a true family in the people that make up the company. I have also been able to be part of their traditions, customs and witness how it has been transformed, how it has overcome adversity and how it has been able to build new opportunities. I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Kurt Dorfzaun himself was part of his legacy, witnessing his concern for artisans and his collaborators and as always, he offered them a fair treatment, which allowed him to take our art to the rest of the world through products of excellent quality.”

“I have worked at ExportadoraK.Dorfzaun for over 26 years and I have witnessed extraordinary changes to serve clients with their product preference such as color, fashion, and weaving styles. In the factory we give our best effort every day to satisfy our client’s with the best quality and natural materials unique to the whole world, putting emphasis on environmental conservation.”

“Working on this company is my passion as we are related to one of the biggest traditional products of our country, the Panama Hat. It is very interesting to elaborate hats and different accessories from the toquilla palm. We work very closely with the hands of our artisans to accomplish a finished product that gets exported to different parts of the world.”