Material

Look beyond the label.

TPE and silicone are chemistry families, not performance categories. What a user feels comes from the formulation, the wall thickness, the geometry and the textile.

Challenge: A material family name is used as if it described performance. Two products in the same family can behave nothing alike.
Why it matters: Formulation, thickness, geometry and textile explain most of what a user feels. The family name explains very little.
Our approach: Every Nord° Formula is a defined blend with a documented purpose, paired with a specified textile and wall thickness.
Evidence: Formulation data, textile specification and long-term load testing.
Next step: Compare formulas across the range

The four variables

What we specify, in the order it usually matters.

Formulation

The blend and its purpose: cushioning, control, durability, or a balance stated explicitly.

Wall thickness

Where material is added and where it is deliberately removed to keep flexion available.

Geometry

Conicity and profile matched to rectified limb shape, not to a nominal size ladder.

Textile

How the outer fabric stretches, recovers and behaves after months of wear and washing.

Reading a formula code

A Nord° code is a specification, not a marketing name.

The formula code identifies the blend and its intended behaviour.
The number that follows relates to the product's hardness and thickness profile.
The same formula used in a different thickness is a different product experience — so we publish both.
If we change a formulation, it gets a new code. We do not silently reuse one.

We describe what a blend is designed to do, and we avoid superlatives we cannot measure.

Our claim discipline

Formulas in production