Snowboarding is the ideal way to discover beautiful mountain areas. For Dupraz Snowboards, designing and manufacturing boards goes hand in hand with a respectful attitude and a civic commitment to preserving the planet.
For example, the brand entrusts its production exclusively to partners located in Europe. In this way, it preserves regional know-how and encourages the use of local raw materials (particularly wood from nearby forests).
This approach, which is totally at odds with current market trends, helps to limit CO2 emissions, as the materials will not have to travel around the world x times before arriving in the shops.
To reduce its impact on the environment and on people, the materials used are also chosen according to strict criteria (glue that does not release toxic volatile compounds, water-based inks, etc.).
The entire production unit has been aware of these issues for years and has implemented recycling processes (e.g. closed-circuit machine cooling system to recycle water).
Let's face it: all the skis and snowboards on the market as they are manufactured today are terrible both environmentally and in terms of recycling: composite assemblies still rely far too heavily on petroleum-based products: fibreglass, sidewalls, topcoats and, of course, soles, all come from petroleum. The quality of our assemblies has enabled us to achieve the performance and reliability that we know, but the downside is that we don't know how to use them properly.
For Serge Dupraz, this demand for the design of his boards also means making the choice to offer an optimised range (but with boards that perform well on all types of snow), and not to multiply the number of models so as not to over-produce.
That's the DUPRAZ concept: thanks to technical innovation and the quality of the materials used, our boards are designed to last for many seasons.
Objective: responsible consumption
New and renewable energies are something I fell into as a child. Michel Dupraz, my father, was passionate about developing alternative heating systems to those using fossil fuels, and had been for decades. Over thirty years ago, I heard him say that oil stocks would not last much longer, and that we could easily heat our homes more comfortably and for four times less.
In the family home built in 1975, the heating was already provided by a heat pump, with a Canadian well system, double-flow heat recovery, etc...
It is a pioneer in France in heat pump systems, having installed the first underground collectors over thirty years ago.
Today, it is launching a patented heating system that is revolutionary in terms of its efficiency, simplicity and the small amount of space required to install it. It's an 'intelligent' system that uses the calories in the air, water or earth, depending on the time of day.
These days, the green market is all the rage. Many companies are launching well-crafted communications campaigns that end up being a lot of smoke and mirrors, offering products that are far from being as environmentally friendly as they appear.
A chacun d’être attentif, de garder du recul, un esprit critique, de faire l’effort de se renseigner et de privilégier les achats vraiment respectueux.
Beware of greenwashing
