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Who makes Who?? What manufacturer makes what brand...

Post by nils » Monday 8 October 2007, 10:38

I find it interesting, that we all share knowledge of manufacturers / factory and brands... it is such a nebulae, and it will be a good way to see how many factory there really are...and who makes who !

Please copy paste the list and correct if wrong add precisions etc..

F2: F2 factory (austria)
Donek: Donek factory ( USA )
Gforce: Donek factory ( USA)
Choc: Choc factory ( slovenia?)
Goltes: Goltes factory( slovaquia?)
Virus: Virus factory ( germany)
Coiler: Coiler factory ( canada)
Prior: Prior factory ( canada)
Duret: Pale ( austria) and Choc?
Madd: Tomahawk ( italia)
Tropical Tube: TT factory ( Italy)
Plasma: Plasma factory ( Germany)
Kessler: Kessler factory ( swiss)
Oxess: Oxess factory ( swiss)
Swoard: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Tomahawk: Tomahawk ( Italy)
Phiokka: Pale?
Nidecker: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Nitro: ?
Hot: Rossignol factory ( spain )
Pogo: Pogo factory ( germany)
Pureboarding: Kessler factory (swiss) , Elan?
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Post by Silber » Monday 8 October 2007, 10:41

F2: F2 factory (austria)
Donek: Donek factory ( USA )
Gforce: Donek factory ( USA)
Choc: Choc factory ( slovenia?)
Goltes: Goltes factory( slovaquia?)
Virus: Virus factory ( germany)
Coiler: Coiler factory ( canada)
Prior: Prior factory ( canada)
Duret: Pale ( austria) and Choc?
Madd: SpiritSnowboards (Italy)
Spirit: SpiritSnowboards (Italy)
Tropical Tube: TT factory (Italy)
Plasma: Plasma factory ( Germany)
Kessler: Kessler factory ( swiss)
Oxess: Oxess factory ( swiss)
Swoard: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Tomahawk: Tomahawk ( Italy)
Phiokka: Pale?
Nidecker: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Nitro: ?
Hot: Rossignol factory ( spain )
Pogo: Pogo factory ( germany)
Pureboarding: Kessler factory (swiss) , Elan?
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Post by harald » Monday 8 October 2007, 11:38

Interesting with all those manufacturers for so small niche. For windsurfing boards there mainly three manufacturers as far as I know. Are all these snowboard manufacturers technologically up to date, or is it easy and little demanding to make a carving board?
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well

Post by nils » Monday 8 October 2007, 11:46

its easier to produce snowboards than surfboards/windsurf because it asks for less huge industrial processes....however its harder to make a good snowboard than to make a working windsurf, because shaping / designing a snowboard involves a lot of parameters that are not present in windsurf ( dynamic deformation of the board is inexistant in windsurf)..
i also heard that most windsurf were made today at the Cobra factory in Thailand...

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Re: well

Post by The Blitz » Monday 8 October 2007, 15:48

nils wrote:i also heard that most windsurf were made today at the Cobra factory in Thailand...
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Re: well

Post by Gas » Monday 8 October 2007, 15:56

nils wrote:i also heard that most windsurf were made today at the Cobra factory in Thailand...
Bic is the exception.
You can see it loking at the boards. They use a completely different technology.
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Post by nils » Monday 8 October 2007, 16:26

i visited the Vannes factory from Bic, and they only make low end boards and surfboards there... the rest comes from Cobra they told me ( well they let me guess it was cobra hehe)... but they might have another factory somewhere too

nitro? they still make alpine? where is the factory?

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Post by skywalker » Monday 8 October 2007, 17:24

F2: F2 factory (austria)
Donek: Donek factory ( USA )
Gforce: Donek factory ( USA)
Choc: Choc factory ( slovenia?)
Goltes: Goltes factory( slovaquia?)
Virus: Virus factory ( germany)
Coiler: Coiler factory ( canada)
Prior: Prior factory ( canada)
Duret: Pale ( austria) and Choc?
Madd: SpiritSnowboards (Italy)
Spirit: SpiritSnowboards (Italy)
Tropical Tube: TT factory (Italy)
Plasma: Plasma factory ( Germany)
Kessler: Kessler factory ( swiss)
Oxess: Oxess factory ( swiss)
Swoard: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Tomahawk: Tomahawk ( Italy)
Phiokka: Pale?
Nidecker: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Nitro: ?
Hot: Rossignol factory ( spain )
Pogo: Pogo factory ( germany)
Pureboarding: Kessler factory (swiss) , Elan?
mboo???: ???
Xtasy: Extasy factory (germany)
R17: China?
Jagaball: ??
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Post by Ohawa » Monday 8 October 2007, 17:27

Some corrections in bold...

F2: F2 factory (austria)
Donek: Donek factory ( USA )
Gforce: Donek factory ( USA)
Choc: Choc factory ( Czech Republic)
Trans: Choc factory ( Czech Republic)
Goltes: Goltes factory( Slovenia, used to be a copy of F2)
Virus: Virus factory ( germany)
Coiler: Coiler factory ( canada)
Prior: Prior factory ( canada)
Duret: Pale ( austria) and Choc?
Madd: SpiritSnowboards (Italy)
Spirit: SpiritSnowboards (Italy)
Tropical Tube: TT factory (Italy)
Plasma: Plasma factory ( Germany)
Kessler: Kessler factory ( swiss)
Oxess: Oxess factory ( swiss)
Swoard: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Tomahawk: Tomahawk ( Italy)
Phiokka: Pale?
Nidecker: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Nitro: ?
Hot: Rossignol factory (spain )
Pogo: Pogo factory ( germany)
Pureboarding: Kessler factory (swiss)
Elan (Slovenia)?[/b]
Board? Just a Choc, 180...
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Post by Ohawa » Monday 8 October 2007, 17:27

R17/Addicted was supposed to be Burton
Board? Just a Choc, 180...
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Post by SuperHik » Monday 8 October 2007, 18:00

Goltes : Slovenia
Elan : Slovenia
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Post by pokkis » Monday 8 October 2007, 18:16

Missing from list:
Snowblind, do they still make Bat-boards?
Rabanser
Sigi
Spirit
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ok :)

Post by nils » Monday 8 October 2007, 18:18

F2: F2 factory (austria)
Donek: Donek factory ( USA )
Gforce: Donek factory ( USA)
Choc: Choc factory ( Czech Republic)
Trans: Choc factory ( Czech Republic)
Goltes: Goltes factory( Slovenia, used to be a copy of F2)
Virus: Virus factory ( germany)
Coiler: Coiler factory ( canada)
Prior: Prior factory ( canada)
Duret: Pale ( austria) and Choc?
Madd: SpiritSnowboards (Italy)
Spirit: SpiritSnowboards (Italy)
Tropical Tube: TT factory (Italy)
Plasma: Plasma factory ( Germany)
Kessler: Kessler factory ( swiss)
Oxess: Oxess factory ( swiss)
Swoard: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Tomahawk: Tomahawk ( Italy)
Phiokka: Pale?
Nidecker: Nidecker factory ( swiss)
Nitro: ?
Hot: Rossignol factory (spain )
Pogo: Pogo factory ( germany)
Pureboarding: Kessler factory (swiss)
Elan: (Slovenia) but does elan makes alpine boards?
Völkl: ( austria ?)
Pen: Prior ( Canada)
AlpinePunk: ?


as for R/17> burton used to subcontract an austrian company for their alpine lines, but due to burton leaving the alpine market, the austrian company shut down...not sure who makes R/17 now...any clue?
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Post by pokkis » Monday 8 October 2007, 18:22

Old Alpinepunks were made by Prior, new ones i dont know yet

And for readability list should perhaps be sorted by manufacturing country?
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Post by Silber » Monday 8 October 2007, 18:23

Alpinepunk is made by Prior. Rabanser supposedly are made by Georg Rabanser...although they really look like they have been made by Spirit as well...
Phiokka used to be made by Tropical Tube from a board that I saw last winter
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