New in at the shop: Bing Surfboards
It’s a name synonymous with classic surf style: Bing Surfboards. Back in 1958, Bing Copeland and Rick Stoner sailed the open seas to New Zealand, bringing the modern surfboard with them. To share surfing with the locals of the land, Stoner opened the brand’s first shop the following year. Working side by side with Bing, Stoner helped to build the iconic surf brand before deciding to sell his share of the business to his partner shortly after its opening.
Cue: the birth of Bing Surfboards.
While most surfers know the quality of a Bing surfboard, we’d like to focus on some other positive aspects of the brand in light of World Oceans Day (June 8th). Bing has worked alongside the likes of world-class shapers the likes of Dick Mobley, Dick Brewer, Matt Calavani and Mike Eaton, to name a few. Back in 2018, Bing Surfboards began working with another important name, Monarch Green.
Bing Surfboards and Monarch Green, Inc.
This Newport Beach based company is working to lessen the negative environmental impacts of surfboard production through its recycling program. Here at the Surf Station, we love surfboards as much as the next guy (maybe a little bit more), but the reality is that surfboards are often made from polyurethane blanks and harmful chemical resins.
This is why Monarch Green is working to collect foam dust from shaped surfboards, and to repurpose this waste into creating products that assist in oil spill clean ups. Essentially, thousands of pounds of polyurethane foam waste is used to create a sorbent material called “Incredisorb” that aids in cleaning up both large and small scale oil, petrochemical and hydrocarbon-based spills. Incredisorb is a 100% recycled product, and has been reviewed by both the E.P.A. and the California Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, meaning that it is safe to use on any body of water, as well as on land.
So the next time that you’re busy drooling over one of our new Bing longboards in stock, you can take solace in the fact that the shaping of your newest shred stick is also working to reshape the world of surfboard production.
