Skate for the Planet

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Skate for the Planet

Skate for the Planet with Glice! Plant a tree with every sheet produced. Offset carbon emissions and benefit from PR opportunities.

Glice is a Swiss-engineered synthetic ice rink system — solid polymer panels that deliver a real skating experience using regular ice skates, with no refrigeration, no water, and no electricity. Installed in over 3,000 rinks across 100+ countries, with performance independently validated by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute.

Reviewed by Viktor Meier, Co-Founder & CEO, Glice AG · Last reviewed: June 2026

Waterless synthetic skating fun

Without the use of water and energy, Glice is an eco-friendly skating experience that is both fun and sustainable. Compared to refrigerated ice, the monthly resource savings of a standard 200 m² (2152 ft²) Glice Eco-Rink are remarkable.

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10,000 liters of water

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Average energy consumption of 200 households

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4.75 tons of CO² emissions

We plant one tree for every Glice sheet we produce

Over 140,000 trees planted to date!

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A green foot print

To go beyond providing a sustainable skating technology, we offset our carbon emissions as a company.

  • Production
  • Logistics
  • Waste Management
  • Employee Travel
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“Our new Eco-Rink offers the joy of ice skating without the negative environmental impact related to the operation of conventional ice rinks.”

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Head of Government Mexico City 2018-2023

Every tree captures an average of 200 Kg (441lbs) of CO² over its lifetime which is equivalent to charging your phone 24,329 times or driving 800km (500mi).

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Let’s go green together!

Demonstrate your climate-consciousness with our marketing materials

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Benefit from PR opportunities

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Encourage skaters to plant their own tree with the Skate for the planet bracelet

In partnership with Trees for the Future

Our shared goal is to create a movement that builds relationships between people and the natural world to demonstrate the power of working together for the benefit of all living things.Glice Skate Foryhe Planet

Habitat for Humanity Partnership

We teamed up with the NGO Habitat for Humanity, which uses our end of life or defective panels and gives them a second life. Our current project is based in Romania, and the intention is to use our panels to build shelters and for various construction projects. Habitat for Humanity is active in over 70 countries, including Ukraine, where we are actively looking to support humanitarian efforts

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Key facts

  • Fraunhofer IWM measured Glice friction matching freshly resurfaced real ice at lower speed
  • 52% less friction and 45% less blade indentation than the next-best synthetic ice competitor
  • Operating in 100+ countries with 3,000+ installations
  • Swiss-engineered panels manufactured in Germany under exclusivity

Last updated: June 2026