Surfboard Foam

This week's closure of Clark Foam will help fuel the offshore production of surfboards, a trend that has been accelerating in recent years, industry experts say. The Laguna Niguel factory's closure Monday roiled the surfing world, leading to price hikes Mike LaVecchia likes his wooden surfboard because it’s a little heavier, and therefore a little faster, than conventional foam boards. And he likes the fact that wood is a renewable resource, so his passion for surfing is not contributing to the (Photo: Marco Garcia, AP) PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) — Hobart "Hobie" Alter, who helped popularize surfing and sailing with the development of the foam surfboard and the "Hobie Cat" sailboat, has died. He was 80. Alter died Saturday at his Palm Desert home Only 2 percent of polystyrene foam used for packaging and other uses is recycled by cities, according to Kevin Whilden, co-founder of Sustainable Surf, a company that recently launched a program that will turn that waste into surfboards. “It’s so much The City will celebrate America Recycles Day with two waste collection events in Malibu by partnering with Sustainable Surf, Marko Foam, and Access document shredding service, according to a release from the City of Malibu. One component will collect The crew at nearby Signal Snowboards introduced Martinez and his team to Jeff "Doc" Lausch, a legend in the world of surfboard shaping. With Lausch's help, the team decided to model its board after a standard foam surfboard, using Hexacomb, a paper-based .

Click here to watch and listen to Baggett discuss how the closure of Clark Foam has affected his business. Photos by Jesse Morton The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Or maybe not, according to a handful of local surfboard shapers and retailers. With their Huntington Beach location, they are set to take the surfboard foam industry by storm. SURFING: Basically, we’ve been told that you guys are starting something new up here in Huntington Beach. Can you elaborate on your operations here and how Enjoy Handplanes’ Ed Lewis has gone beyond shaping hand-planes from broken surfboards and created one of compressed hay, but he dreams of using mushroom-based foam. Although it isn’t ready for use in blanks yet, mushroom foam has been shaped into Dr Matt Lockyear is using foam from inside surfboards to make materials University of Exeter. "Physicist bends light waves on surfboards." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 31 July 2012. . .

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