Sustainable Style - Strategic S-427 Helmet Wins German Design Award

Strategic Sports LTD’s commitment to combining cutting-edge helmet design with sustainable, eco-friendly practices recently earned a prestigious 2024 German Design Award for the groundbreaking S-427 helmet. 

Since 1995, the German Design Awards has set international standards for innovative design development. Today the jury considers more than just the form and function of entries; societal impact including sustainability and circular design processes, resource- and environmentally-friend manufacturing processes are also factored. 

Strategic’s winning entry is the S-427 cycling helmet, a unique design that is assembled with no glue and completely recyclable. This means that at the end of the helmet’s life, all components can be dismantled by hand, separated and recycled by type in minutes. 

The contemporary and versatile shape of the S-427 is well suited to a range of cycling disciplines, proving that style and sustainable design can coexist. And as a 2024 winner, the S-427 is in prestigious company, as other winners include design and innovation icons Ducati, Range Rover and Porsche Design. 

“Of course we are very proud to be recognized with a German Design Award for our work on the S-427,” Strategic Sports LTD Managing Director Norman Cheng said. “But we didn’t create this sustainable design just to win awards, we did it because we feel it’s very important that we as manufacturers work hard to improve the sustainability and fight climate change wherever we can,” Cheng said. 

Founded in 1991, Strategic Sports LTD’s ongoing effort to address climate change in their own manufacturing processes include utilizing recycled rainwater, solar power and reclaimed materials, facilities in Taiwan, China, Portugal and Vietnam to create more efficient supply chains, their own BioDome recycled and reclaimed materials technology, among many other measures.

You can view Strategic’s German Design Award here.