Circular Smart Saddle System

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Circular Smart Saddle System: Rethink the wasteful old trade leather and saddle industry
The Equine horseriding industry continues to grow worldwide in popularity. The saddle is a very important sporting equipment for the horse and the rider. A properly fitted saddle means comfort, a healthy back, a good performance and safety for both horse and rider. The worldwide saddle production chain produces a lot of un-wanted, un-needed, poorly produced saddles which will never fit a horse with a huge impact on the planet. To preparing the skin of the cow in the tanneries, the raw material of the saddle, the use of chemicals, a lot of water, waste water is a huge problem for the planet. And ofcourse the well being of the animals in a short- term production. To change this world wide production chain it is important to connect tradition, heritage and craftskills with modern technology. To create a new way to overcome the supply chain is to redesign the saddle. The new design of the ‘folded saddle’, your personalized saddle with sustainable biobased material, can be made in ten steps at your local saddler. And it can be easily refolded again and adjusted for the horse. The advantage is no wastestreams, better fitted, local produced, less transport costs, less production time and less expensive. Natural tanned leather and the evolution of new material for he future wil need further research. Now a new businessmodel can be started, a closed loop with repair, manufacture and rebuild the saddle

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