Monthly Archives: July 2012

Great board, Great Price!

Posted in snowboards by Monson Mfg. on July 30, 2012 | No comments

We are to small to change snowboarding, nor do we want to. We would like to make a small difference in an extremely competitive market. Monson Snowboards is one of the very few production facilities in America that makes snowboards not only for ourselves, but for other companies as well. ...

Made in America, Sold in Italy!

Posted in custom, manufacturing, OEM, projects, snowboards by Monson Mfg. on July 23, 2012 | No comments

Most people don’t realize that we manufacture oem and custom snowboards for brands all over the world. Here are a few pics of some boards getting ready to get QC’d, serial numbered and bagged so they can get in a crate and put on a boat to Italy. These boards...

Base Grinding

Posted in machinery, manufacturing, production, promotional, videos by Monson Mfg. on July 16, 2012 | 2 comments

As we settle into our new factory, we thought it would be a good idea to periodically take videos of the processes for everyone to see. Here is a little video of Ule base grinding some boards that need to make their way into a shipping crate this afternoon. In...

Progress to the wood shop!

Posted in machinery, manufacturing, projects, wood cores by Monson Mfg. on July 13, 2012 | No comments

Today was a day we have all been anxious for, the day we finally got the gantry on the C&C machine and scooted it into place. We had been looking around for machine skates during the past few weeks with no luck here in St. George. It wasn’t until some...

Progress to the print station

Posted in custom, manufacturing, printing by Monson Mfg. on July 11, 2012 | No comments

Here is a pic of the digital print station. It’s coming along, but like anything still more to do! We have a few of the digital printers in place and the transfer press all wired up and cookin’. We used to print in large batches but found that it was...

Sweet Knife Cuts

Posted in die cuts, manufacturing, printing by Monson Mfg. on July 9, 2012 | No comments

At the end of last season we played around with direct printing material and knife cutting it. This gave us the best of two printing options at the same time and opened up the creative possibilities. The other benefit is that we get full material yield, as you can see...