NYCOA Materials for Athletic Equipment and Accessories

Athletics and sporting accessories must operate under a wide range of conditions: From super-tough nylons that need to be able to resist impact, to cold-temperature performance requirements that can be among the toughest in the world of specialty polymers. NYCOA has developed a host of engineered polyamide grades across multiple product families that are designed to stand up to the wear and use that athletes put on their equipment. Common applications for nylon in sports accessories include: cleated shoes and specialty footwear for sports such as cycling; sticks for sports such as Lacrosse, Field Hockey, Hockey; skate guards; helmet components; components in clubs and balls.

NYCOA products families found in sports accessories 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, are particularly effective when cold-temperature impact resistance is critical. Finally, our NYCOTUFF grades of impact-modified nylons are excellent options where rigidity is required, but items must remain break- and fracture-free despite repeated impacts.