Winter Olympic champions wear ski helmets made in Ningbo

The 16-day Sochi Winter Olympics ended on the day before yesterday. The employees of Ningbo Tianqi Technology Co., Ltd. paid special attention to this year's Winter Olympics because the sports helmets they produced were worn by many athletes.

"A little bit of a rough count, at least 6 of the ski championship helmets made by us were made by us at the Sochi Winter Olympics." Yesterday, Ye Yunle, deputy director of Ningbo Tianqi Technology Co., Ltd. was proud to be interviewed. Introduction said. Such as freestyle skiing women's obstacle skill champion, Canada's 19-year-old teenager Howell, who won the championship in the snowboard men's U-shaped pool competition, such as Podradzychkov.

Every hat

To undergo 50 collision tests

Tianqi is a manufacturer of sports helmets that are branded as OEMs. The boss is a Taiwanese man. He previously produced this in Taiwan, and then bought land in Ningbo to open the company.

Currently, it has an annual output of 5 million sports caps. Its domestic production is second only to a Guangdong enterprise, and its annual production value exceeds 500 million yuan. Basically, all the well-known sports brands in Europe and America find production lines here. Most of these brands are Sponsor of the Sochi Winter Olympics athletes.

“Excellent quality is the reason why Tianqi has always been favored by foreign manufacturers. Tianqi produces sports helmets that are not limited to skiing and cycling and roller sports.” Wang Hanliang, Technical Director of Tianqi Technology Co., Ltd. Say.

Wang Hanliang said that companies need to pass tests to test the crash performance of sports helmets. The sampling rate is one out of 1,000 hats. Basically, tens of thousands of hats are measured each year, and each sampling hat must go through at least 50 different types. Anti-collision test.

There may be more specific items to be tested, such as a hat falling rapidly from a height to a smooth steel plate, hitting a stone, or hitting a triangular object, while a hat must also test its points for impact resistance.

“We currently produce hats that are fully up to the European and American standards. In addition, last year we specifically used water-based paints instead of oil-based paints. Although the expenditure is three times higher than before, the factory has absolutely no odor.” Ningbo Tianqi Ye Yunle, deputy director of Technology Co., Ltd. added.

In addition to ensuring safety and environmental protection, Ye Yunle said that companies currently employ hundreds of designers in Switzerland, the United States, and Australia, and that new products are guaranteed to be updated once a year. This also captures old customers and attracts them. new customer.

Tianqi sports helmet

Why is it so crashworthy?

Why does Tianqi's sports helmets be so resistant? Wang Hanliang explained that it must first talk about its structure: the structure consists of three parts, the outermost part is generally made of ABS, PC plastic, which is usually said to look good; The layer is a styrofoam absorbent layer, and an ankle strap is used to prevent the helmet from falling off.

In the three parts, the styrofoam absorption layer is the essence, essentially styrofoam is not wrong, but is formed by multi-layer compression of styrofoam, shock absorption capacity is several times that of ordinary styrofoam, used to absorb shock and Relieve the impact on the head.

The styrofoam foam plastic is a type of polymer material formed by dispersing a large number of gas pores in a solid plastic, and has the characteristics of light weight, heat insulation, sound absorption, shock absorption, etc., and the dielectric properties are superior to the matrix resin. It is very versatile.

For sports helmets for skis, there is one more section that covers the ears for frost protection, and for sports helmets that are used for cycling or wheel mixing, there are more air holes and air passages for ventilation.

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