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SIMA BOARD BUILDER FORUM - DEVELOPMENTS IN FOAM BLANK PRODUCTION
At Surf Expo and ASR, the SIMA Board Builders Special Interest Group will host a presentation and Q&A to discuss recent developments, short and long term solutions in the current issue of foam blank production. The forum is open to all interested parties, with reserved seating for board builders.
Surf Expo
Friday, January 13th, 2006
1:00 p.m.
Room 210ABC
North concorse
Sum up of Sima, Join Sima, where to get foam, speakers, questions.
Lindin spoke for Walker foam, he is trying to make 500 blanks a day in america.
There is another american foam producer who is small right now but can get bigger, right now he is ramping up production and if people like his foam he’ll make more.
South African foam on the way.
Austrailian foam going to California. .
Brazilian foam on the way.
Argentinian foam on the way. Loves to talk enginneering. Might start making foam here
Florida and Texas we know what were doing.
When summer is over in the southern hemisphere we are going to have an abundance of foam and by June we’ll have extra foam.
Everyone is doing a great job they are busy.
I would have more info names numbers but I was watching Glenn Klugel glass a board, and Greg was shaping.
I’ll try to edit with more info, if I can sneek in the expo again, I still don’t have a pass.
cool thanks for the update. what type of foam was it? did they go into new materials or future planning? or how about alternate business models as opposed to the growth model? Or maybe returning to surfings roots, perhaps wood as a core material? Renewable and dependent upon a source powered by something far greater than all of man’s accomplishments?
And the major one. How come only Reef came out and supplied foam for the building guys, they got tons of surf companies that make bank enough to cortes that @55. What disaster plans was initiated and implemented after black monday? And how come Jack Johnson and Co have to save the highlands of the north shore? Why isn’t support granted to Trestles to stop the toll road?
cool thanks for the update. what type of foam was it? polyurethane—did they go into new materials or future planning? brief mention of eps and epoxy, or how about alternate business models? nothing —as opposed to the growth model? Or maybe returning to surfings roots, perhaps wood as a core material? I thought they would mention it at least then it over, before I had a chance to speak. Swaylock lurkers know way more than s ima --Renewable and dependent upon a source powered by something far greater than all of man’s accomplishments? talk of less TDIs from Argentina and the smaller american foam co. Forgot the name, and it wasn’t in the brocure.
And the major one. How come only Reef came out and supplied foam for the building guys, They didn;t mention Reef. – they got tons of surf companies that make bank enough to cortes that @55. What disaster plans was initiated and implemented after black monday? that’s the sad part, plan was wait and see, And how come Jack Johnson and Co have to save the highlands of the north shore? Who’s going to save the mountain tops of Indonesia, no trees no rain, no water, worse than a Tsunami, the whole place is going to look like Lombok. The Mentawaiis old Growth trees are being logged faster than ever before. Why isn’t support granted to Trestles to stop the toll road? they are leaving that to Swaylocks also.