Sports & Outdoors

Sports and outdoor products must combine comfort, durability and reliable performance under repeated movement, impact and changing environmental conditions. Footwear, grips, protective components and other sporting goods often require materials that provide cushioning, flexibility, grip, vibration damping, resilience and wear performance while remaining suitable for efficient manufacturing and compounding processes.

Kuraray offers specialty elastomers, liquid rubbers, polyols and related materials for sporting goods and footwear applications. Depending on the product and formulation, these materials can help tailor softness, elasticity, damping, grip, processability and other performance characteristics in soles, midsoles, grips, molded components and rubber compounds. Kuraray’s material portfolio gives compounders and product developers multiple options for adjusting performance to the specific needs of sports, footwear and outdoor applications.