Porcher Sport, the Sports and Leisure Division of Porcher Industries and the world leader in high performance fabrics for airborne and nautical sports, has announced that the group will be a race sponsor of the Red Bull X-Alps 2019.
Porcher Sport will power the world’s toughest adventure race, held in June 2019, with all entering athletes using Porcher Sport’s enhanced paragliding fabrics. The group will showcase its Skytex ™ 27 (27gsm) performance material, announce its forthcoming strategy into the outdoor apparel and equipment sectors and showcase a prototype of its newly developed ultra-lightweight performance fabric that weighs only 21gm and which will be available in 2020.
This year, 32 of the world’s top paragliders and mountain runners will line up for the start of the XAlps 2019 race, with all athletes using Porcher’s Skytex™ 27 to power their wings.