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Off to Oz.

Monson Mfg. — Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:57 +0000

Here is a small production run for one of our customers down under!

New Factory!

Monson Mfg. — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:43:31 +0000

Over the past few years despite a terrible economy, we have managed to run a tight business and grow. We have sacrificed where we need to, been cautious in our business choices and most importantly delivered on time for our customers.

One of our company goals has been to own a factory. We just accomplished that goal! Our new digs are in St. George Utah and we are wrapping up production to move by July 1st.

We are very excited about the new building, it is 7200 SF with plenty of open space for our machines and work stations. It has a fully ventilated spray booth for screen printing and lacquering, 800 AMPS of triple phase power and best of all cooling and heating units throughout! Our employees will now be able to work in a climate controlled facility with dirty air constantly being pumped out of the building and new fresh air in.

This is a great opportunity for us as a company to continue to grow and support our customers as well as ratchet up capacity and QC. We will now have the space to inventory and store more raw materials in a cleaner more controlled environment and organize our process in a more efficient manner.

Enjoy the pics, and more info to follow in the coming weeks!

Facebook 500

Monson Mfg. — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:46:41 +0000

So as everyone can tell based on our number of Facebook likes that we are terrible at social media. Well we are going to change that, and based on the research we have done it’s no secret that the best way to get fans is to give away free stuff! So here is the first challenge:

1. Get us to 500 fans by June 1st and we will give away a free Custom Wakeboard to a random fan!! Contest ends Thursday 5-31 @ 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.

You must Like Monson Snowboards to be entered!

If you don’t wakeboard, we will build you a custom snowboard.

Drowning in Raws

Monson Mfg. — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:00:14 +0000

As production continues to heat up, our factory is beginning to drown in raw materials as shown by today’s deliveries. We are excited about parts showing up from CDW, ISO Sport, Vectorply and Stratta Forest. We still have more shipments coming from ISO Sport, La-Es, CDW, Composites one and Revchem Plastics.

It’s a good feeling to have the support of our vendors so that we can keep on schedule and continue to deliver on-time or early.

Monson Snowboards line of raw materials

Cap Skate deck

Monson Mfg. — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:27:28 +0000

Periodically throughout the year we get projects to make long boards, so Daniel decided to make on a bit different. Last week engineer Daniel had an idea to make a cap skate tool for a run of boards.

To make the graphic cap around the edge Daniel had to make a cavity tool (see pic). He made the first one by machining a piece of MDF to create the space for the parts to fit in. We typically make prototype tools out of MDF, then when we feel the details are right, we make an aluminum one to withstand volume production.

As you can see he used the base graphic from the prototype wakeboard we built. A homage to old school cartoons. On the nose you can also see some damage, one of the first things we do to new products is beat the crap out of them.

Cap Humanity Skate

Here is the top of the skate deck without grip tape. It has a poplar core with fiberglass and epoxy for strength and flex.

Top of cap skate

Shown here is the graphic capping around the wood core.

Side of cap skate

Side view 2 of cap

Here is the MDF cavity tool. Awesome for prototyping and short production runs. Doing it like this gives us a cost effective way to engineer and test new products. We are so fortunate to have in house engineering, design and c&c machines!

Cap skate tool

Early Shipping

Monson Mfg. — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:35:15 +0000

This past winter may have been a strange one, coming late or never in some areas, but it has not stopped companies from getting their production rolling early this year. In an effort to help support our OEM brands, we are already starting to ship 2012/2013 product!

It’s so awesome to have such a great relationship with our customers. Staying flexible in every aspect of the production cycle helps them stay on budget and gives us the opportunity to effectively schedule our builds to maximize efficiency and deliver early.

Snowboards leaving the factory almost daily!

Mt Dew 2012

Monson Mfg. — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:34:38 +0000

Mountain Dew has always been a huge supporter of action sports! In fact they just announced an extension of the tour. (Read More about it) We have enjoyed working with them over the past few years on projects.

Mountain Dew Snowboards

Boards getting packaged.

First Humanity Wakeboard!

Monson Mfg. — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:27:54 +0000

We knew Daniel would come up with some sort of funny graphic to put on the first Humanity wakeboard. I am not sure if and when these will go on sale, but we will let you know!!

Splitboard with C6 Technology!

Monson Mfg. — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:06:03 +0000

While Daniel was on the Humanity snowboard tour in February he met up with the guys at snocon in Seattle. Snocon has been successfully splitting boards and providing completes to consumers. Because we have our own factory, it only made sense for us to work together to develop a great split board with all the hardware for a reasonable price. Here is a picture of the first Humanity C6 split by snocon! We are excited about working with them, so if you are in the market for a split board, snocon is the place.

More pictures to come!

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Design it on-line!

Monson Mfg. — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:07:35 +0000

We knew at some point we had to offer a way for customers to design their board on-line. So with the help of Jay at Booom industries, we now have a solution. Our new application is simple, it allows you to choose a color scheme, upload images and photos and ad text to your board. The software automatically sets your artwork to the right size and includes all the required bleed for us to make your design a snowboard.

One of the best features about our on-line board builder is that our application makes a high res version on our servers. That means you don’t have to make a cd and send anything in to us!

Open Designer.

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