MonoShell

The MonoShell Helmet, developed in collaboration with Covestro AG, redefines the future of helmet design. Through innovative Desmopan materials, it provides top-notch safety, individual style, and contributes to environmental sustainability by promoting helmet awareness and optimizing recycling possibilities.

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The material New TPU (also called Desmopan©) has the following properties which are suitable for our product: flexibility and elasticity, abrasion resistance, weather resistance, good damping properties, recyclability, processability.

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Helmets have an expiry date and must be disposed of regularly every 5 years. Furthermore, helmets are usually made of many different parts and are therefore very difficult to return to the cycle.

We Erik Koch, Natalie Nürnberger and Sabrina Cisamolo have taken on the challenge of transforming the helmet into a monomaterial product and thus offering a guide for future monomaterial solutions. In collaboration with Covestro AG, the task was to use the new material New TPU/Desmopan© and to showcase its versatility.

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Circularity

To have a recyclable helmet one needs to ensure its circularity. The helmet is intended to be used in a rental system together with bike rentals. Through a rental system the helmets circularity is ensured and the most amount of material can be recycled.

Recyclability

To ensure recyclability the inner and outer shell are made out of the same TPU Mixture and the same color. That way the helmet can be recycled as one.

All additional pieces such as reflectors and buckles are attached with a plug mechanism so that they can be removed manually.