Nike claims new foam offers 13% more energy than Lunarlon
24/01/2018
Nike launched the React foam cushioning in June 2017 in basketball shoes, after going through more than 2,000 hours of testing.
In its development, the company searched for a material that was soft enough to absorb, yet hard enough to return energy.
Its in-house chemists and mechanical engineers tested 400 hundred combinations of chemistry and processing.
Designers were able to use one piece of Nike React foam (no carrier, cement or glue) to create the midsole and outsole of the first running shoes that features the technology.
Nike explained that testing at its Sports Research Lab has shown React foam delivers 13% greater energy return than the latest generation of Nike Lunarlon foam.
Ernest Kim, director of advanced footwear for Nike Running, said: “I want to emphasise this because we’re not comparing Nike React technology to some no-name foam that fell off the back of a truck somewhere; we’re comparing it to our latest Lunarlon and, even with the bar set that high, Nike React technology delivers that much more energy return with each stride.”
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