NYCOA Materials for Footwear Applications

Modern footwear has developed into an incredible combination of performance features, innovative material selection, groundbreaking industrial design, and an exercise at the highest levels of design aesthetics. Along the way, materials used in footwear applications - from slippers to work boots to cleated shoes to performance road running shoes - have evolved to include both high-volume established polymers and fabrics to unique specialty polymers that deliver the best in performance. Among these materials are nylons, which produce excellent durability, energy return, and flexibility.

NYCOA products families relevant to the footwear industry include copolymers from the NYCOADAPT family, which offer a tunable level of rigidity, resistance, and flexibility; NYCOA’s newer flexible PEBA product family Ny-Flex are also high-performance applications for inserts, molded components, and even shoe soles. Finally, weavable nylon materials offer potential for woven uppers in shoe assembly.