LIST OF SUSTAINABLE SKI BRANDS AND PRODUCTS // Lista över hållbara företag inom skidåkning // A guide for all skiers to make their skiing+sustainable

[Arnals]

Traceability of sustainable companies and brands in the ski industry.
A guide for all skiers who want to make their skiing more sustainable.

You can copy and paste the list to add more companies, try to not put greenwashing brands (you can also text why is sustainable or or name some that you are not sure with an *)

SKI:
- WNDR Alpine
- 1000Skis

POLES:

BOOTS:

BINDINGS:

MANITENANCE ACCESSORIES:
Wax:
- Nzero
- Mountain Flow
- Green Ice Wax

APPAREL:

SKI STATIONS:

OTHERS:

 

[Arnals]

Traceability of sustainable companies and brands in the ski industry.
A guide for all skiers who want to make their skiing more sustainable.

You can add new info in comments or links about sustainable projects

SKI:
- WNDR Alpine
- ROSSIGNOL -> Has made his first recyclable ski
- 1000Skis

POLES:

BOOTS:

BINDINGS:

MANITENANCE ACCESSORIES:
Wax:
- Nzero
- Mountain Flow
- Green Ice Wax

APPAREL:

SKI STATIONS:

OTHERS:

 

[packåsna]

Traceability of sustainable companies and brands in the ski industry.
A guide for all skiers who want to make their skiing more sustainable.

You can add new info in comments or links about sustainable projects

SKI:
- WNDR Alpine
- ROSSIGNOL -> Has made his first recyclable ski
- 1000Skis
- Norse (waxless skis)

POLES:

BOOTS:
- Scarpa (renewable materials in ski boots)

BINDINGS:

MAINTENANCE ACCESSORIES:
Wax:
- Nzero
- Mountain Flow
- Green Ice Wax

APPAREL:
- Patagonia
- Vaude

SKI STATIONS:

OTHERS:

 

[RandoScando]

SKI:
- WNDR Alpine
- ROSSIGNOL -> Has made his first recyclable ski
- 1000Skis
- Norse (waxless skis)

POLES:

BOOTS:
- Scarpa (renewable materials in ski boots)

BINDINGS:

MAINTENANCE ACCESSORIES:
Wax:
- Nzero
- Mountain Flow
- Green Ice Wax

APPAREL:
- Patagonia
- Vaude
- Northern Playground -> First brand (I know of) having a businessmodel focusing on customers consuming less goods.

SKI STATIONS:

OTHERS:

 

[KaitsuH]

Karhu NoWax Skin 200 ski (183-203 cm) 2-cl

NoWax Skin 200 is the first 100 % wax free skin ski. No kick nor glide wax needed.

www.kiteensuksi.fi

Och jag har testat, de verkligen funkar fint!

 

[Simonstenberg03]

SKI:
- WNDR Alpine
- ROSSIGNOL -> Has made his first recyclable ski
- 1000Skis
- Norse (waxless skis)

POLES:
- Kang poles (bamboo poles)

BOOTS:
- Scarpa (renewable materials in ski boots)

BINDINGS:

MAINTENANCE ACCESSORIES:
Wax:
- Nzero
- Mountain Flow
- Green Ice Wax

APPAREL:
- Patagonia
- Vaude
- Northern Playground -> First brand (I know of) having a businessmodel focusing on customers consuming less goods.
- Klättermusen (recycled or biomaterials)

SKI STATIONS:

OTHERS:

 

[twingate]

The impact from green/sustainable/recycled materials in equipment and clothing is pretty minimal compared to that of the use-phase. CO2eq output from travel to and from place of utilization can easily reach 150-200x the output of manufacturing. Not saying that bio-substitution and sustainable manufacturing methods and power sources do not matter, simply that they have a lot less impact than changes to means of transportation.

Points for effort from the OEMs; some of them are genuinely trying to make a difference (I work with a few on biomaterials), but there is a risk here that we get stuck in a sort of involuntary green-wash. Buying the "right" stuff may make us feel good about ourselves but is approaching pointless unless we stop flying and/or maximize utilization of electric cars and trains. Next up would be to demand OEMs to produce in countries with an energy mix of predominantly renewable sources.

 

[Glisseur]

Traceability of sustainable companies and brands in the ski industry.
A guide for all skiers who want to make their skiing more sustainable.

You can add new info in comments or links about sustainable projects

SKI:
- WNDR Alpine
- ROSSIGNOL -> Has made his first recyclable ski
- 1000Skis

POLES:

BOOTS:

BINDINGS:

MANITENANCE ACCESSORIES:
Wax:
- Nzero
- Mountain Flow
- Green Ice Wax

APPAREL:

SKI STATIONS:

OTHERS:

Full transparency here, I work for Extrem Skis and Åre Skidfabrik where 1000 Skis are produced (as well as SGN, Stereo Skis and Moonlight Skis). The production and most materials used are exactly the same between the brands. So what makes 1000 stand out as a sustainable brand? Just curious.

 

[unsuspected]

Full transparency here, I work for Extrem Skis and Åre Skidfabrik where 1000 Skis are produced (as well as SGN, Stereo Skis and Moonlight Skis). The production and most materials used are exactly the same between the brands. So what makes 1000 stand out as a sustainable brand? Just curious.

Make Extrem snowboards great again.

 

[Hasse_Lindborg]

Full transparency here, I work for Extrem Skis and Åre Skidfabrik where 1000 Skis are produced (as well as SGN, Stereo Skis and Moonlight Skis). The production and most materials used are exactly the same between the brands. So what makes 1000 stand out as a sustainable brand? Just curious.

Funderade på det igår jag oxå…. Är det så stor skillnaden i produktionen mellan skidorna på fabriken?

 

[Glisseur]

Funderade på det igår jag oxå…. Är det så stor skillnaden i produktionen mellan skidorna på fabriken?

Noll och ingen, det är samma maskiner som körs på samma el och med samma avfallshantering. Alla material är samma och från samma leverantörer.

1000 har däremot inga skidor med kolfiber i lineupen och använder en eco-valla istället för vanlig Swix. Fast dom flesta skulle nog bli förvånade när dom ser hur extremt lite valla som används till ett par skidor, det är några få gram. Över en säsong gör hela skidfabriken av med något kilo valla, det är inte mer. Men visst, det är saker som också räknas.

Så skillnaderna är ytterst marginella.

 

[Arnals]

I would not speak of a sustainable brand, since 100x100 sustainable in our sport unfortunately I doubt there is any brand or product (maybe some wax it is) , but its true that there are some brands or ways of going skiing/purchasing the material that are more sustainable than others, 1000 is not really sustainable, even if they are manufactured as you have said and with renewable energies, but they are working on it, They want a ski with a large LCV or live cycle, making the skis red always and never changig their graphics, So the skier does not need to change the ski for one with new patterns that all brands always change it and they sell it that it is a completely different ski technologically... etc (we have to see how it works 1000 yet but this is the idea) perhaps it should be specified in each brand what is special about it, for me a good example is WNDR ALPINE, although they are not 100 x 100 sustainable but they have a good circularity of their product, as well as the use of natural fibers and waxes, using biomaterials in the ski construction, and collaborate only with brands of the same type.

 

[Arnals]

I would not speak of a sustainable brand, since 100x100 sustainable in our sport unfortunately I doubt there is any brand or product (maybe some wax it is) , but its true that there are some brands or ways of going skiing/purchasing the material that are more sustainable than others, 1000 is not really sustainable, even if they are manufactured as you have said and with renewable energies, but they are working on it, They want a ski with a large LCV or live cycle, making the skis red always and never changig their graphics, So the skier does not need to change the ski for one with new patterns that all brands always change it and they sell it that it is a completely different ski technologically... etc (we have to see how it works 1000 yet but this is the idea) perhaps it should be specified in each brand what is special about it, for me a good example is WNDR ALPINE, although they are not 100 x 100 sustainable but they have a good circularity of their product, as well as the use of natural fibers and waxes, using biomaterials in the ski construction, and collaborate only with brands of the same type.

But at least we have a tracability of ski brands that work in a way to reach more sustainability in our sport ¿?

 

[twingate]

Noll och ingen, det är samma maskiner som körs på samma el och med samma avfallshantering. Alla material är samma och från samma leverantörer.

1000 har däremot inga skidor med kolfiber i lineupen och använder en eco-valla istället för vanlig Swix. Fast dom flesta skulle nog bli förvånade när dom ser hur extremt lite valla som används till ett par skidor, det är några få gram. Över en säsong gör hela skidfabriken av med något kilo valla, det är inte mer. Men visst, det är saker som också räknas.

Så skillnaderna är ytterst marginella.

En rätt stor skillnad på allt som produceras i Sverige mha primärt el från vattenkraft jämfört med produktion i Kina där kol används för elproduktion. Kan handla om 70-80% högre CO2eq för samma vara med samma material, produktionsmetoder och maskiner. En analys vi gjorde på skidor förra året visade ~120Kg i Kina vs ~30Kg per par i Sverige.
Hurra för Åre Skidfabrik + Jämtkraft!

Men som sagt, transporter till och från de platser vi nyttjar prylarna har i dagsläget väldigt mycket större påverkan. Topptur ToR Östersund - Storulvån med en bensinbil = ~80 Kg.

 

[Glisseur]

En rätt stor skillnad på allt som produceras i Sverige mha primärt el från vattenkraft jämfört med produktion i Kina där kol används för elproduktion. Kan handla om 70-80% högre CO2eq för samma vara med samma material, produktionsmetoder och maskiner. En analys vi gjorde på skidor förra året visade ~120Kg i Kina vs ~30Kg per par i Sverige.
Hurra för Åre Skidfabrik + Jämtkraft!

Men som sagt, transporter till och från de platser vi nyttjar prylarna har i dagsläget väldigt mycket större påverkan. Topptur ToR Östersund - Storulvån med en bensinbil = ~80 Kg.

Har du siffror på skidor tillverkade i andra europeiska länder?

 

[twingate]

Har du siffror på skidor tillverkade i andra europeiska länder?

Inte som vi tagit fram själva men det kanske går att hitta. Borde ju annars gå att göra ganska tillförlitliga uppskattningar om man vet vart fabrikerna ligger.