Students Build Paper Composite Snowboards with Reichhold Resins.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  April, 2004  

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April 26, 2004 - Seven students at North Carolina State University (NCSU) fabricated functioning snowboards out of a paper composite using thermoset resins from Reichhold in a national competition in the 2004 Energy Challenge project. The team started from scratch and researched different types of paper, according to Natalie Killmon, captain of the team representing the Red Wolf Board Company.

The team looked at all aspects of snowboard design principles relating to the core, the edges and the outer surface. Jacki Gerken, a senior material science and engineering major and a ...

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