3CSup
Design
Title: 3CSup | The unique generation of custom, clear, cardboard Stand Up Paddle boards Subtitle: 3CSup connect sustainability with performance. A unique generation of cardboard core Sup boards super light and clear for any kind of cruise. Introducing NERD 3CSup The 3CSup combines an eco-friendly approach with performance. We created a game changing generation of boards super light and ultra-clear, especially designed for Stand Up Paddling. The 3CSup are both a high technology design products and a symbols of a new ecology perspective. We are convinced that 3CSup is an eco-friendly alternative to the mass production of inflatable and foam core Sup boards that currently infest the global market. Why is it important? The cardboard core technique reduces drastically the footprint of the object. If you consider that the core of a board makes up about 98% of the volume of the object, you will understand the innovation in terms of sustainability. Moreover the rails of the board are made by recycled and recycable PET. One of our future goal is to set up a virtuous production system that help us to create the most ecology, unique and cheap boards on the whole world market! We’re starting also to use an epoxy thermoplastic resin that will allow us to have 100% recyclability. So potentially we will avoid the use of thermoset resin polymer. Besides we are sure that by developing innovative products based on recycled and recyclable materials, we can raise awareness about the ecology situation of the planet. We have enlarged a plethora of innovative products, based on technology of our boards, that could help us to trigger a real change of design patterns also in other fields of production! Why recyclable&recycled materials? Basically because it’s a challenge head on! Since the first foundation of the Clark Foam blanks company, surfers and shapers from all over the world struggled to find an “eco-Plan B” to substitute the polluting production of foam blanks. So 3/5 over the years, new strategies, materials and techniques came and went without leaving a disruptive answer to the mass market. Now it’s time to change the game! We spent a lot of time in studying existing various techniques, actually never accomplished, in testing prototypes and elaborating a new model that will allow us to minimize the footprint of a mass production of boards. We decided to progress a cardboard core technology! That is amazing because it’s recycled and recyclable material, cheap, affordable, easy to customize and perfectly programmable with parametric and digital design. To complete the project we developed a strategy for the material recovery after the disposal of the boards.