Customer requirement focus
- Energy absorption and repeated impact
- Thin, lightweight and conformable design
- Sweat, temperature and wearing durability
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SOLUTION
Sports Protection
Balance energy absorption, recovery, fit, weight and wearing comfort with supercritical microcellular polyolefin and TPU materials.
APPLICATION LOGIC
Design material and structure combinations around impact energy, loading rate, coverage, thickness, ventilation, curved fit and repeated impact requirements.
PALAMAL deliverables
- Material and structure combination
- Impact test matrix
- Sample to production process
MATERIAL ROUTE
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