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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Nike has continuously raised the bar for sustainable footwear, and two of its forthcoming sneakers, which are part of the company’s pursuit of a circular future, should only raise the bar further.Last week at an event to reveal the Serena Williams Building on Nike’s world headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., the athletic giant debuted the ISPA Link and ISPA Link Axis, which were created with the end in mind. Darryl Matthews, Nike VP of product footwear design, catalyst, explained at the event that there are three removable components — upper, lace and tooling — that are interlinked through geometry.“The idea was to eradicate the whole cementation process within the production line,” Matthews said. Both sneakers feature interlocking modules that are connected without glue or cement, and can be completely disassembled. Nike explained that having materials that can be separated at the end of use are easier to process, recycle and reuse, which facilitates the reusability of materials and components and a transition to a circular economy. Watch on FN “This shoe has reduced emissions quite considerably in the process, it takes eight minutes to make a shoe, there’s no heat tunnels, there’s no cooling tunnels, there’s no glue lines. It’s our first steps in understanding how we can get to a circular process of recyclability in footwear product,” Matthews said.What’s more, Nike explained that designing for disassembly can also reduce labor, manufacturing footprint and carbon emissions, and may also allow in the future for components to be refurbished, replaced or customized
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