Surfboard Construction Time-Lapse Video credit: Berta River / YouTube More modern novice surfboards now use an epoxy resin and prolapse polystyrene (PPS) foam, rather than polyurethane and polyester.

It is a water-blown, closed-cell, rigid polyurethane foam that features formulations as low as 2 lbs.-per-cubic foot density. But beyond its use as a structural material, the foam likely has other ...

Polyurethane The most traditional foam used to build surfboards, shapers have been using Polyurethane ever since Grubby Clark first cracked the chemical code back in the 1950s. Extremely light and ...

Sustainably harvested balsa cores. Indestructible epoxy and wood veneers. Hemp cloth glass jobs. Plant-based resins. In the wake of Clark Foam”s dramatic December 2005 shutdown, which saw the… ...

In the surfing world, it's called a wipeout. On Dec. 6, 2005, Clark Foam (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) - the supplier of 80 percent of the polyurethane foam blanks that form the cores of the world's ...

Jaguar Land Rover is taking leftover PU foam from models to make surfboards, the Toy Hall of Fame has released its finalists for 2017 and Kenya enacts a strict plastic bag ban.

Gordon "Grubby" Clark of Clark Foam supplied an estimated 90 percent of the polyurethane foam used to make surfboards around the world. Gloria Hillard reports on the shock wave that Clark's ...

In search of a solution, Pope benefited from lessons learned in the 1970s when he, Morey and naval architect Bob Johnson (Island Packet Yachts, Largo, Fla.) built the WAVE (Water Apparatus and ...

At the neon-pink-walled factory of Soul Stix Surfboards, in the surf ghetto of San Clemente, Calif., a computer-controlled circular saw shapes a 5-foot-9-inch board from a slab of polyurethane foam.

Surfboard-industry-icon Gordon Clark has closed his Laguna Niguel, Calif., plant and ceased making or distributing rigid polyurethane foam blanks. The closing dismayed retail surf shop operators ...