Niuway is a tent rental service for festivals. The tents consist of only a few components so that the goods can be easily cleaned, repaired or completed with spare parts. The reuse aspect plays a central role in Niuways concept.

As soon as tents are brought to the Niuway stand at an event, the preparation begins; they select the goods and, together with a refreshing partner, prepare the tents for subsequent use.

There is an enormous waste problem at festivals, especially when including camping in Switzerland. People usually buy the cheapest camping equipment possible because a festival visit is expensive anyways and young visitors want to save money with camping accessories. Many factors such as price, quality, luggage or weather can lead up to a quarter of all tents being left standing at a large festival. Therefore, a lot of camping goods end up at the disposal later as they are not designed for repair.

Niuway produces and rents tents in festivals.

Usually festival tents are made of a variety of materials - the niuway tent, on the other hand, consists only of the two recyclable materials PET & aluminum.

After use, the tents are cleaned, repaired, and can be rented again at another partner festival. The goal is that tents can be reused at least 5-7 times and thus save CO2 emissions and material.

When tents show irreparable damage after use, they have considered recycling aspects in the product development so they can be used as raw material for new products.

To ensure that tents can be easily rented, washed and repaired, Niuway has developed a (tent) construction together with a Swiss design company which saves material and where the individual components can be easily separated.

Niuway products are certified with the Swiss Climate Label. 

Niuway was part of the festival season this season (2022) and therefore the outcome still needs to be determined.

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