The biggest drawback to PU surfboard foam is that it’s extremely toxic and bad for the environment. After Clark Foam closed in 2005, ...

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.

Two years ago, Santley and a partner formed Green Foam Blanks, which makes rigid foam surfboard cores by fusing polyurethane with recycled polyurethane dust gathered from workshops that would ...

Carpenter says, “There are soy-based surfboard blanks [a blank is the rough shape of a surfboard, traditionally made of polyurethane foam]. So, instead of polyurethane there is a plant alternative.

It is a water-blown, closed-cell, rigid polyurethane foam that features formulations as low as 2 lbs.-per-cubic foot density. ... the leading manufacturer of foam for surfboard construction, ...

ALISO VIEJO, CALIF. (Sept. 14, 11:15 a.m. ET) — Surfboard makers now have a route for using leftover polyurethane dust – the result of shaping a surfboard from a block of foam. Sales of ...

Polyester resins are the old-school mainstay of board production worldwide. They’re predictable, easy to work with, and can be used on any surfboard made from a polyurethane foam core – also ...

Step into the workshops of most surfboard-makers and you'll find a fluffy, snowlike layer of polyurethane foam under your feet. The floor of Danny Hess' Outer Sunset garage is covered with sawdust ...

Polyurethane foam surfboard icon Larry Gordon, an avid wave rider who was among the first to create foam boards, died Jan. 1 in San Diego at 76 of Parkinson's disease.