Section 2 of 6
The makers — from 22 Designs in Driggs to Rottefella in Norway — and what a low-volume ski-hardware business actually looks like.
6 pieces · all sections
Lead piece
Profiles the company behind the Outlaw X and the Lynx — its location in Driggs at the base of the Tetons, its production model, and what distinguishes its approach to NTN hardware from the European makers.
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Examines the Meidjo binding from The M Equipment — its releasable, tourable design, how the release mechanism differs from earlier NTN bindings, and the engineering decisions behind a binding designed for both ski-touring and resort use.
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Covers Rottefella's role in establishing the NTN standard, its position as the dominant NTN manufacturer, and the product decisions — including the Freeride discontinuation — that shaped what the norm became in practice.
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Describes Voile's operation in Salt Lake City — its product range across cable bindings, splitboards and skins, and what it means to manufacture ski hardware at low volume in a city at the edge of the Wasatch.
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Profiles Bishop Bindings and its BMF model — the mechanical design, the small-batch production context, and the market gap it addresses between the major NTN manufacturers.
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A reported piece on the economics of small-batch ski-binding manufacturing — tooling costs, minimum order quantities, distribution, and why the telemark binding market has sustained several micro-manufacturers while the alpine market has not.
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