Salomon Announces New Sustainability Initiatives for Winter Sports Category

OGDEN, Utah (Jan. 27, 2021) — Salomon, the worldwide chief in winter sports activities gear, in the present day publicizes the implementation of latest, extra sustainable design ambitions throughout its complete winter sports activities class. This extra accountable method to creating winter sports activities gear—together with hardgoods reminiscent of skis, ski boots, goggles and helmets—is one other step towards realizing the model’s total commitments to lessening its environmental affect. Most notably, by 2030, Salomon has pledged to scale back its total carbon emissions by 30-percent and is dedicated to creating 100-percent of its merchandise with round financial system ideas.

Recognizing that the way forward for alpine snowboarding, Nordic snowboarding and snowboarding are instantly impacted by local weather change, sustainability shall be a serious facet of Salomon’s efficiency parameters within the model’s future winter sports activities merchandise. Salomon Winter Sports activities has set forth a plan to function extra sustainably by:

• Launching a spread of progressive and extremely sustainable winter sports activities merchandise
• Defining an inventory of sustainability “fundamentals” that every one winter sports activities merchandise should meet by 2025, in step with Salomon’s international sustainability technique
• Shut collaboration with companions, distribution channels and the winter sports activities neighborhood to collectively work in direction of Salomon’s sustainability objectives

Salomon Winter Sports activities has already instituted a variety of sustainability measures throughout its enterprise, together with decreasing packaging, enhancing product sturdiness and repairability, eradicating chemical substances and supplies of concern and integrating the usage of extra sustainable supplies.

“As the worldwide chief within the winter sports activities class, we’ve got a duty to set an instance of how our winter sports activities enterprise can function in an more and more sustainable method,” says Xavier LeGuen, vice chairman of winter sports activities for Salomon. “The well being of the sports activities we love relies on the planet. It’s time for us to do our half and assist information the best way by sharing our sustainability pillars inside our winter sports activities enterprise. Sooner or later, we’re hopeful that the whole winter sports activities trade will work collectively to advance efforts on this space and make a optimistic affect on the local weather menace we’re all dealing with.”

The extremely technical nature of winter sports activities gear leaves little room for design variability, the place area is commonly made to implement sustainable components in merchandise. The character of merchandise like skis—that are comprised of metals, glass/carbon fibers and wooden—makes sustainable manufacturing a formidable job for R&D professionals. Regardless of this problem, Salomon’s Winter Sports activities division is pledging to chart a brand new, extra sustainable course within the years forward, guided by the objectives set forth within the firm’s total sustainability commitments unveiled in 2019. 

NEW S/MAX eSKIN NORDIC SKI USES RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES IN CORE CONSTRUCTION

This month, Salomon introduces the brand new S/MAX eSkin Nordic ski, the corporate’s first ski designed with recycled plastic bottles. The brand new core is named S-CORE 45—the S standing for “sustainable” and “45” representing the proportion of the core weight that’s produced from the recycled Polyurethane (PET) foam from plastic bottles. The recycled PET is inserted right into a Densolite mould, giving the S-Core 45 the right mix of lightness and sturdiness.

The brand new S/MAX eSkin has the efficiency to push the tempo. It options the identical thickness profile and sidecut as Salomon’s World Cup racing ski, the S/LAB Carbon Traditional, as a way to maximize kick, glide and acceleration. The S/MAX eSkin ski shall be broadly obtainable within the fall of 2021.

“The S/MAX eSKIN ski is the results of three years of analysis and growth targeted on decreasing the affect of the uncooked supplies, sustaining Salomon’s excessive sturdiness requirements and delivering the efficiency skiers count on—all at a aggressive worth,” says Aloïs Vacelet, Salomon’s product line supervisor for Salomon Nordic skis. “Via these developments, we’re dedicated to creating the game extra accessible.”

SUSTAINABILITY MEASURES ALREADY TAKING PLACE WITHIN SALOMON WINTER SPORTS

Along with creating flagship merchandise with a sustainable theme, the varied classes inside Salomon’s Winter Sports activities enterprise have been working to include sustainability “fundamentals” that make a world affect within the following areas:

• PACKAGING: All cardboard packaging for Alpine and Nordic ski boots, snowboard boots, bindings, helmets and goggles is 100-percent FSC-certified; all single-use plastics in snowboard boot packaging have been eradicated; plastic luggage round ski poles have been changed with a small plastic clip, saving greater than 5.4 tons of plastic per yr (12.6 tons of CO2); the plastic window on goggle packaging has been changed with a full FSC-certified cardboard field, eliminating the necessity for glue; the usage of 1 million single-use polybags has been averted since they had been faraway from snowboard binding packaging

• DURABILITY AND REPAIRABILITY: 100-percent of snowboard bindings are repairable, and baseplates now have a lifetime guarantee, emphasizing re-usage over consumption

• REMOVAL OF CHEMICALS AND MATERIALS OF CONCERN: 100-percent of all Salomon snowboard boots are PFC/PVC-free; snowboards now use cork rails as an alternative of rubber rails for a extra eco-friendly journey on excessive promoting boards; the whole Nordic ski boot vary shall be PFC/PVC-free by Fall/Winter 2023; the alpine ski boot vary shall be PFC/PVC-free by Fall/Winter 2025

• INTEGRATING THE USE OF MORE SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS: All skins for backcountry snowboarding, Nordic snowboarding and snowboarding cut up boards now use Mohair sourced from sustainable and cruelty-free manufacturing; snowboard cores are utilizing extra bio-sourced supplies of their building; in all black coloured alpine ski bindings, 10-percent of the product is produced from recycled supplies

“Our athletes are extraordinarily obsessed with environmental safety and conservation. The local weather disaster is an actual menace to their life and livelihood, in order that they have been important in serving to us drive our accountability and dedication to sustainability,” says Joe Johnson, alpine & Nordic advertising supervisor for Salomon North America. “Longtime Salomon ski ambassadors like Cody Townsend, Mike Douglas, Chris Rubens, Leah Evans, amongst others share a dream of working with a model that not solely has the very best performing skis, however can be a model that’s main with goal to make sure the longevity of snowboarding.”

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About Salomon

Born within the French Alps in 1947, Salomon is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of mountain sports activities by the creation of revolutionary gear that permits individuals to play, progress and problem themselves of their chosen outside sports activities. The corporate produces and sells premium footwear, winter sports activities and mountaineering gear, climbing gear, and attire particularly designed for all of these disciplines. Merchandise are developed within the firm’s Annecy Design Heart, the place engineers, designers and athletes collaborate to create revolutionary options that frequently enhance the outside experiences of those that see nature as an unlimited playground.