Swix has been serving people around the world with high performance products for more than sixty years. When racers win medals on Swix products, the company takes great pride in being a part of the medal winning performances. Swix history is packed with success, with scientific experience and knowledge, and with “medals.” These factors are valuable and hard core assets for Swix, and they make the company the most trusted within the business. Swix works continuously on research and product development. It is vital to us is to accumulate knowledge and to use it actively in our product portfolio. This is what makes our products so trusted. Read more

The purpose of waxing is either to create friction, or grip, in the case of kick wax, or to reduce it as with glide wax. The intention with the waxing process is to make the ski base as compatible as possible with the features of the snow surface. However, the snow conditions change with time and temperature.


Even when temperatures remain below freezing, time (hours and days) will progressively deform sharp, classic snow crystals into more rounded forms. We call this transformed snow. The higher the temperature, the faster the trans- formation will proceed.  Read more