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Used by the most demanding sports brands, Pebax®, Arkema’s hightech polymer, features outstanding properties that perfectly fit in with winter sports equipments.
Produced by Arkema, Pebax® is a high performance plastic. Pebax® resin is widely used in Sports Market, where high performances materials are required.
Compared to conventional plastics, Pebax® brings better properties in term of durability, flexibility, dynamism, combined with an overall gain in weight of more than 20%.
Pebax® is particularly appreciated by the designers of equipment for demanding winter sports such as freestyle skiing, long-distance alpine skiing, telemark skiing, and cross-country skiing.
The following unique properties brought by Pebax® motivated their choice: |
| Perfect Flex whatever the outside temperature |
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Unlike toes and fingers, Pebax® does not stiffen in cold weather! It retains its outstanding performance even in extreme conditions (down to -40°C)! Pebax® gives a maximum comfort to demanding skiers, and guarantees the same feeling of your boots whatever the weather. It is the reason why Pebax® is the material of choice for ski boot designers and has been chosen for years by all the high-end ski boots manufacturers. |
| Torsional rigidity and strength for a perfect energy transmission |
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Pebax® is an ideal material for high performance Nordic soles. All the energy you transfer to your ski boots is transferred to your skis. Pebax gives you precision and power!
material to achieve similar performance. It means that your equipment is lighter. |
| Lightness |
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Pebax® is 20% lighter than traditional materials. It enables designers to reduce the weight of your equipment, which is greatly appreciated in long-distance skiing, where you need to carry your equipment for hours. A Pebax alpine-touring ski boots can weigh less than 1,5kg!
If you practice alpine touring skiing with Pebax® ski boots, after 4h of your favorite activity, you will carry 2T less with Pebax® boots than with competitive materials (such as polyurethane)! Pebax® lightens your ski boots! |
| Impact resistance |
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It guarantees your equipment reliability whatever your style of skiing. It makes Pebax the material of choice for freeride ski boots. |
| Pebax® offers the greatest sturdiness |
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It is probably one of the most important characteristics for skiers, especially for those who practice long-lasting types of ski. Pebax® meets perfectly the requirements of the most demanding skiers as it has the best fatigue resistance. Pebax® can be fold thousand of times without breaking, even in extreme temperatures, down to - 40°C! Your ski boots made of Pebax® will last longer! |
They have chosen to work with Arkema Sports Team to design their (winter) sports equipments:
FISCHER, the no. 1 in the Nordic world, has chosen Pebax® for the design of the outer sole of its new cross-country ski boots, RSC Carbonlite Classic and Skating. The use of Pebax® in the FISCHER F5 sole provides perfect flex and torsional rigidity, hence outstanding comfort and optimised energy transfer.
SCARPA, the Italian leading boots and shoes manufacturer, has been using Pebax for more than 20years now in its ski boots. No other material offers the same strength and power transmission with such lightness. |
