Forsberg scores with carbon nanotube hockey stick

Easton Hockey’s new Synergy SL carbon nanotube composite-based hockey stick played out its rookie season in the hands of Sweden-born hockey star Peter Forsberg.

Adopted by Forsberg during his season with Sweden’s Modo during last year’s NHL lock-out — Forsberg is now back in the line-up of the Philadelphia Flyers — the Synergy SL is lighter and stronger than its predecessor.

Synergy SL’s improved properties were possible due to Richardson, Tex.-based Zyvex Corp.’s NanoSolve carbon nanotube technology, according to Ned Goldsmith, vice-president of Van Nuys, Calif.-based Easton Hockey.

Easton and Zyvex worked together to develop the Synergy SL, which features a shaft that is 10 to 15 per cent stronger than traditional wood shafts and weighs only 420 grams.

Carbon nanotubes increase the strength of plastics by reinforcing the polymer at the molecular level, said Thomas A. Cellucci, president of Zyvex.

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