Bayer Communication Center: Exhibition Room Sport-Leisure

Exhibition Room Sport-Leisure

A great team

Sports and plastics make a great team. Whether on a ski slope or a running track, on a soccer field or ice-hockey rink, on a tennis court or golf course: there’s scarcely a sport that doesn’t involve plastics.

Mass, performance and parasports: Bayer is one of Germany's biggest sports sponsors

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Mass, performance and parasports: Bayer is one of Germany's biggest sports sponsors

It was difficult in the past to unite modern design with high-level safety, but now Makrolon® has solved that problem. Take helmet visors for instance, or the strong outer skin of bicycle helmets. Even people who prefer just to watch athletes perform can take advantage of the high-tech plastic, because it's also in sports eyewear. Why? Because it's so strong, lightweight and gives designers all the creative freedom they need.

The kind of forces sporting equipment has to withstand these days is best illustrated by the game of ice-hockey, where innovative gear is con-tinuously being introduced to the rink. One of the latest innovations is multi-wall carbon nanotubes from Bayer MaterialScience. They make Nitro Lite ice-hockey sticks virtually indestructible. Professional quality for professional athletes.
Small details often make a big difference, as shown in golf: an innovative tee made of Makrolon® helps give a golf ball the optimum trajectory.

There's no doubt about it: amateur sportsmen and -women rarely think about the material from which their equipment is made, but they do think about its performance characteristics. So it's no wonder that many of them don't know what snowboards and surfboards are made of, or why inline skaters and skiers feel so comfortable in their high-tech footwear. A visit to BayKomm can provide some surprising answers to these questions.

Incidentally, you can also find out while you're there why today's roller coasters glide so smoothly along the tracks. After all, the passengers are supposed to get a shiver down their spines not from excessive vibration, but from the thrill of it all!