Sports equipment: Materials that make it comfortable and safe to play hard

The quality of our high-quality materials ensures the production of sports equipment that performs. Desmopan® provides abrasion-, UV-, tear-, scratch-, and impact-resistance in many stiffnesses and hardnesses, perfect for ski boots, skis, ice skates, and motocross boots. Dureflex® and Platilon® polyurethanes and elastomer films offer robust barriers in balls and inflatable boats. And our PU foams deliver comfort and safety for helmets, skis and sports flooring. You will find our Makrolon® resins in everything from bicycles, and roller blades to golf tees. The polycarbonate's strength, lightness, and impact resistance also make it suited to sports eyewear. Ask our consultants to help identify the materials best suited to your needs.

Lightweight, flexible, highly resilient and attractive to look at, our lightweight CFRTP (continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic) composites open a new chapter in mountain bike design. Unlike conventional synthetic resin composites, CFRTP is not brittle and can easily be manufactured in large quantities, making it ideal for high-performance mountain bike components. This composite material offers enormous strength as a result of fiber reinforcement and, thanks to its thermoplastic matrix, can be processed mechanically and significantly faster than epoxy-based systems.

Our rugged, flexible polyurethane foams for sports equipment provide maximum protection, reliability and wear comfort, particularly in extreme sports gear. Applications include the vital shock-absorbing layer in helmets, and the cushioning effect of gym mats, wall padding and sports flooring. You will also find our foams in skis to absorb vibration, in reusable archery targets and even in boats where our rigid polyurethane foams increase load-bearing capacity. In other words you will find our foams wherever there is a need for durability, safety, and impact resistance. 

Electric scooters are playing a growing role in sustainable mobility. And the wheels of these scooters have to be long-lasting and hard enough to minimize friction and handle speed and load, yet soft enough to provide grip and ride comfort. Our range of Desmodur® elastomers make it possible to cast “softer” cast polyurethane for better grip, or to manufacture “harder” wheels for increased speed. Hard or soft, any resistance caused by the grip of the wheel is overcome by bearings in the urethane scooter wheels, enabling the wheel to roll smoothly with minimal friction during motion.