SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
PALM EQUIPMENT – Vertigo Jacket
Our excellent value whitewater jacket, made from Seawastex® XP 2.5-layer recycled fabric with soft GlideSkin neoprene neck and wrist seals for comfortable water protection. Palm’s 3D cut gives unrestricted freedom of movement, while the adjustable twin waist…
HIKO – Solar Powered
HIKO production runs on 100% solar power. Never using PTFE membranes and switching to PFAS-free DWR was one step. But we didn’t want our work to stop with the materials. So we went further – to how the product itself is made. In 2026, we installed 180 solar panels with…
LEVEL SIX – FreeFlow Foam
Real sustainability is not usually sexy. For our new FreeFlow Foam, the sexy part is that it is PVC-free. PVC has been the default in PFD foam for decades because it is cheap, it floats, and more honestly no one was looking into anything else about it. The more the industry has…
PYRANHA – Recycling & Plastic Lifespan Leadership
One of the biggest problems we face as an industry is the prevalence of canoes and kayaks on the market which are long past their best, but to the uninitiated, and thanks to them often being sold at a price which is hard to say no to, appear to be the obvious choice for…
ZHIK – reZHIKle Program
reZHIKle is Zhik’s wetsuit take-back and recycling program, a direct response to a simple fact: over a million wetsuits go to waste every year. Drop your old wetsuit at a certified reZHIKle Partner store and it stays out of landfill. Instead it gets a second life, reprocessed into…