NEMO Equipment

NEMO Equipment, Inc.
Private company
Industry Manufacturing
Founded 2002
Headquarters Dover, NH
Products Outdoor equipment
Website www.nemoequipment.com

NEMO Equipment, Inc. is a company based in Dover, New Hampshire, that designs and manufactures outdoor equipment, tents, and shelters. NEMO was founded by Cam Brensinger in 2002, while studying industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design.

History

In 2004, at the Summer Market Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, NEMO introduced its first line of backpacking and mountaineering tents. A few months later, the company won the 2005 ISPO BrandNew Award from Munich, Germany.[1] Later in 2005, NEMO's products were named among the best inventions of the year by Time magazine,[2] Reader's Digest,[3] Men's Journal,[4] and Popular Science.[5] NEMO has also been recognized numerous times for its design with the Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum,[6] a Design Distinction honor from I.D. magazine, and the 2006 Bottom Line Design Award from Business 2.0 and Frog Design.[7] NEMO tents have also received numerous accolades from outdoor publications such as Backpacker's 2008 Best All-Around Mountaineering tent and Rock & Ice Editor Choice Award.

Design distinction

NEMO is best known for its AirSupported Technology, which incorporates low pressure airbeams in place of traditional aluminum tent poles.[8]

NEMO has also worked with the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts on its Extreme eXPeditionary Architecture (EXP-Arch) project to create shelter concepts based on highly mobile, quickly deployable, and retractable architecture systems.[9]

Products

NEMO's core product line includes a wide range of tents and shelters. The tents range from single-person bivy sacks to larger base camp mountaineering tents. NEMO uses several different kinds of structural elements to support their tents including traditional aluminum tent poles and low pressure air beams.

Camping in NEMO's Moki tent

In 2009, NEMO introduced its first sleeping pads and pillow to the market. The company has also recently focused on sustainable design with Nano OZ, a two-person tent made with recycled polyester fabric, mesh, and recycled fasteners,[10] bamboo tent poles as a lightweight, strong, and more renewable alternative to traditional aluminum tent poles,[11] and reusable shopping bags made from old sample tents.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Hi-Tech Camping". Business NH Magazine.
  2. ↑ "Best Inventions 2005: Sporting Life". TIME Magazine. November 13, 2005. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Best Design and Style". Reader's Digest.
  4. ↑ "Innovations 2005: The best of the new new things". Men's Journal.
  5. ↑ "NEMO Equipment Sako". Popular Science.
  6. ↑ "Good Design 2004: Winners". Chicago Athenaeum.
  7. ↑ "Bottom Line Design Awards/2006/Winners/NEMO Hypno Tent". Business 2.0 and Frog Design.
  8. ↑ "NEMO Equipment". HGTV: Marketplace.
  9. ↑ "Expedition News October 2006 Highlights". Expedition News.
  10. ↑ "Recycled Tents To Keep Bugs, Rain and Waste Away". Treehugger.com.
  11. ↑ "The Gear Junkie Scoop -- Bamboo Tent Poles :: September 15, 2008". The Gear Junkie.
  12. ↑ "Reusable shopping bags for outdoor gearheads". Core77.

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