The Cashew

Völkl Snowboards won the Ecological Innovation Prize of the EuroSIMA Industry Awards this year with their eco-friendly snowboards.

The boards Cashew, Yavana (2010), and Vice SQD (2011) stand for ecologically sensitive production. These snowboards have a tear-resistant hemp/linen top instead of a plastic topsheet and also have flexible wooden sidewalls instead of normal plastic ones. This alone saves more than 400 gram of plastic for every board. Additionally the use of synthetic resin and other toxic materials were reduced to a minimum. Even the base is more ecological now. It consists of 80% recycled base material and even the steel edges are made of renewable resources.

Find out more about sustainability and eco-friendly production on the Völkl Greenpage

The Yavana

The Dopamine is Amplid’s new freestyle destroyer that will take you to your own personal “next level” and reduces its carbon-footprint at the same time.

Built with a new WDT Polywood Core construction: Amplid’s green, stomp proof core. This procedure utilizes the remaining wood particles created during the processing of wood cores and requires 50% less energy to build a snowboard than traditional processes. Just one of Amplid’s contributions to keep the forest green or white.

Butter with control, drive through take-offs, and stomp landings. The Dopamine takes the meaning of JibRocker into unknown territories. Forgiving and fun, yet incredibly agile and precise.

For more info check out amplid.com