Closure of Calif. surfboard foam company wipes out industry

Associated Press/ San Jose Mecury ^ | 12/8/05 | Gillian Flaccus

[Proud_USA_Republican]

france = california in 20 years.

No matter where its been tried, socialism always ends up destroying the economies of any country.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

And why has manufacturing moved offshore?

[RWR8189]

You're talking about surf boards, and I just got done shoveling 6 inches of snow...

[snarks_when_bored]

Grubby should move down the coast a ways, into northern Mexico, and set up his factory there. No regulations and plenty of cheap labor.

No, wait, that's right, all of the Mexican laborers have moved to California, to do the work that Americans won't do. Right, forgot.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Is it just me, or has the overhead of living in the US gone up in the last few years? Even if you master capitalism, the govmint makes you work that much harder just to keep afloat.

[BoBToMatoE]

And why has manufacturing moved offshore?

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BINGO. Or at least out of CALEEEfornIA.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

I hope he does.

[Paleo Conservative]

[WideGlide]

Bummer Dude.

[Don@VB]

Someone will fill the void perhaps Mexico or China but it wont be overnight.In the meantime, I know fairly good sized operations that are being stopped dead in their tracks.

[Wil H]

..So, you chose to live there...:-)

What's your point?

[Hoosier-Daddy]

The market's too small and it would be better that they did move it down to Mexico. Simple pleasure are gone.

[adobbs]

As a surfer and sometime board shaper the closing of clarks foam company is not just a blow to the surfboard industry but to the surf culture as a whole. As an old surfer growing up in the late 60s Clarks foam was an icon to all of us. not just for the foam but a great place to meet fellow shapers and steal their ideas. It will be missed.

[JennysCool]

Simple pleasure are gone.

Thanks to the "liberals."

"Liberal," my butt.

[The Westerner]

Our government has turned into a criminal enterprise. Closing this man's shop because of supposed crimes against the environment is fascism at its finest. The intellectual elite have declared war on production using the ideas of ecology. The New Left is cashing in...impoverishing all of us eventually if we don't fight it now. Marxism/Fascism.

[PAR35]

Yes, I'd get a connected local partner down in Mexico and move my manufacturing there.

[The KG9 Kid]

Boy, those dumb surfers who helped the environmental movement along all these years.

I wonder what they think now?

[IncredibleHulk]

Several years ago, my cousin had the largest spa/hot tub company in the world (CalSpas). Due to Kalyphonia's laws, he had to sell it and move his company to British Columbia. He is doing just fine there.

[Razz Barry]

"The rest of the $200 million U.S. market is comprised of machine-produced boards mostly churned out at factories in Asia and Eastern Europe."

Who don't have to adhere to the same environmental laws as US companies.