GREEN ROOM BOARD COMPANY AND AERIALITE TEAM UP FOR EXCLUSIVE EPOXY LAMINATING SYSTEM, TO BE DEBUTED AT SURF EXPO.
December 27, 2007
For Immediate Release;
Green Room Board Company and BGF/Aerialite are pleased to announce the release of a new epoxy surfboard lamination system. The two companies have worked together to develop a lamination system which utilizes Green Room’s unique epoxy resin and a new Aerialite fiberglass cloth finish. This resin/cloth combination has been developed to create maximum strength, minimum weight and minimum discoloration in surfboards. Green Room’s resin engineer Dr. Rob Whitehead, who has been refining the resin formula over the past two years, is now producing a resin that will chemically bond to the exclusive formula of Aerialite’s cloth finish. The “chemical bonding” between the cloth and resin is key in creating an ultra-strong, ultra-light finished product. All of Green Room Board Company’s EPS surfboards are glassed with this epoxy lamination system creating a state-of-the-art, environmentally conscientious design. The boards are proven to have better flex patterns, more strength and lighter weight than traditional PU/PE surfboards. The materials, finished surfboards and their designers will be available for inquiries at January’s Surf Expo in Orlando, FL in the center of the Board Pavilion.
About Green Room Board Company:Located in Wilmington, N.C., Green Room Board Company produces unique Epoxy resins, in addition to distributing Aerialite fiberglass cloth and EPS foam. We also proudly manufacture our own custom-made surfboards under the Green Room label. With over 18 years of experience, our shaper, Jimmy Keith hand crafts our surfboards to perfection balancing the latest in design features with a traditional sensibility. Our mission is to continuously provide our clients with the optimal materials necessary to produce premium surfboards through ongoing research and development of our products. All of the materials in Green Room Epoxy Systems are designed to cohesively work together to create an unsurpassed finished product.
Well, the resin is a new formula developed to form a chemical bond with Aerialite’s specially formulated finish on their cloth. The refractive index is matched for a whiter board and more resistance to UV plus a stronger finished product. Our “fin juice” is also a new slow-kicking resin for fin plugs, that won’t burn the foam around the plugs and thus negates any need for high density inserts. The spec sheets can be found at www.greenroomboardco.com or here:
Very cool about the refractive index matching!! Very nice tech sheet, btw. Especially like the tables with the different exotherms for different hardener mixes. So, what’s the pricing like?