The Swiss company CompPair focuses on composites with the goal of making products more repairable. Its hallmark composites rely on what CompPair calls HealTech technology to create a healable surface. The way it works is that when something gets scratched or dinged, heating up the resins that hold fibers together could soften them and let them slowly seep back into shape.
CompPair says its compound can be fully healed within 10 minutes of heating. And if the actual fibers aren’t broken, the compound matrix should be reset to as good as new. To be clear, this process has never been used in a vaulting pole. Getting those composites into a pole—while maintaining the integrity of the structural fibers—is a whole other challenge.
CompPair cofounder and CTO Robin Trigueira says there is a world in which utilizing these kinds of composites could help usher in more repairable sporting…
