Duotone Diversity Magazine No.02 2020

T E C H N O L O G Y 1 KITE 3WEEKS 68 KITE BASICS 76 EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 80 THEUNIQUENESS OFDUOTONE TWINTIPS 86 THEPERFECT FOILFORYOU 88 PRODUCTIONOFAKITE A Duotone kite is made of around 500 individual parts. Its production takes three weeks. During this time, it passes through the hands of approximately 350 employees. An insight into the most important steps of the production process at the production site GSL in Sri Lanka. KITEFOILING Foils have completely changed kitesports – and they are more versatile than ever. There are foils specifically for waveriding, for speed junkies and for cruising. What do you need to consider when selecting the right foil. KITEDESIGN A kite seems like a simple thing, but there’s no other high-performance sports product that has the complexity of a modern inflatable kite. Duotone Kite designer Ken Winner on the factors that affect the performance of a kite. INNOVATION Kite design moved up to the next rung on the evolutionary ladder in 2020. A conversation with Ralf Grösel, Kite Designer at Duotone and Till Eberle, CEO of Boards & More. TWINTIPPRODUCTION What differentiates Duotone’s Twintips from the boards of other brands in terms of their manufacturing process? Five examples. T E C H N O L O G Y 66 3 ~ This equals about 2.5 Mio pages which would suffice to completely cover 37 football fields ~ This equals 64000 liters of water, enough to fill 2560 swimming pools of 3×6m size (water height 1.40m) N U M B E R S O F S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y WE SAVE Each year we save approx. 3 tons of plastic foil, approx. 64m 3 of styrofoam/plastic packaging, 66000 poly bags and 13 tons of paper thanks to the adjustments made to our packaging system: In general we are using: + zero laminated plastic foil + zero plastic foam + only recycled cardboard + only waterbased inc For SurfboardPackagingwe use: + zero bubble wrap + zero plastic bags + zero styrofoam Spareparts: + come in little bags made out of left overs of kite canopy instead of polybags All ourmanuals: + have been digitalized and only short versions are printed and delivered with the product. WE COMPENSATE WE COLLECT During the first ever DuotoneBeach CleanUp in 2019 we collected approx. 800kg of trash from beaches around the globe. ~ A German household produces approx. 450kg trash per capita during one year (*in 2018) Carbon offset for DTKproducts, compensating: 2557.57 tons CO 2 (Kites) 250.29 tons CO 2 (Surfboards) 71.15 tons CO 2 (Clickbar) 272.39 tons CO 2 (TTs) 896.06 tons CO 2 (Foil Wing) A total of 4000 tons (4047.46 tons) of CO 2 /season ~ A car that goes around the entire globe once would emit approx. 7562kg CO 2 . Emitting 4000 tons (4 Mio kg) a car could circle the globe 529 times! P E O P L E 66 T O N S O F PL A S T I C FO I L T O N S O F P A P E R P O L Y B A G S T R A S H C O L LE C T E D S A V E D E A CH YEA R M I L L I O N K G O F C O 2 C O M P E N S A T E D ~ Thi s e quals the we igh t o f a hi ppo O F S T Y R O F OAM/ P L A S T I C P A C K A G I N G