Clark Foam in Laguna Niguel might have stopped making its foam surfboard blanks last week, but its products are alive on eBay. Surfers, shapers and collectors of the famed foam can find what they’re ...

A month after the closure of industry titan Clark, shapers don’t know who’ll supply the foam.More than a month after Clark Foam stopped supplying blanks to the surfing industry, local board shapers ...

Walker Foam helped set up a PU blank maker in China. Since mid-December, ``the Chinese people are making blanks for their own surfboard use,'' Linden said. ``The initial expectations that they would ...

July 7, 2006 Sandia National Laboratories prides itself on provifind technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom for our nation and the globe. It’s ...

With the world’s largest maker of foam surfboard blanks abruptly closing, many board shapers are left scrambling for the materials needed for their craft, livelihoods.FOR THE RECORD A story in the Dec ...

A group of former Clark Foam executives has launched a foam factory that is expected to produce surfboard blanks that rival those made by their former Laguna Niguel employer. Clark Foam executives Kim ...

For those that are new to surfboard construction, boards are essentially made of a foam “blank” which is then carefully shaved down and sanded to the correct shape, and glassed with resin to create a ...

Just across the Orange Curtain in Westminster, Brad Nadell’s Foam E-Z was the main distributor of Clark Foam for Orange and L.A. counties, selling as many as 1,500 Clark blanks a week. Clark Foam ...

Surfboard construction has undergone a renaissance in the last decade, with shapers experimenting with a myriad of core materials, from closed-cell foams to repurposed wood. Sustainable Surf, a ...

An oxymoron for the last 70 years, “sustainable surfboards” are finally starting to become a reality. A quick scan of quivers at the Hurley Pro Lowers in 2016 proves this point. Kelly Slater, Michel ...