Not only are these the first 100 percent recyclable set of skis, the innovative metallic construction makes this the most precise and environmentally friendly way to manufacture them.
If you’re a ski history fanatic, you might balk at the title of this article. Let me help. In the 1940s aluminum-laminate skis with a wood core were coming about but didn’t take off until Howard Head jumped in the game. After his own challenge in learning to ski on hickory planks in Vermont, he put his aircraft manufacturing experience working for the Glenn L. Martin Company to use. He wrapped two sheets of aircraft-grade aluminum around a core of honeycomb plywood with plastic sidewalls.
” Yes, the aluminum skis can go through the same machines. Another boon of aluminum is its graceful nature of material failure, if that ever happens. Anyone who has been on a composite ski when it fails will tell you it’s usually catastrophic. The bindings come ripping out, the wood, metal, fiberglass, and other plastics come apart in a sudden and almost explosive way.
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