Styrotech CNC
Design in Rodney
www.styrotechcnc.com
Address
24 Manga Road. Rodney, Auckland.Are you the owner or manager of this company?
What you should know about Styrotech CNC
Originally founded in 1984 as a partnership between Kevin Trotter and Russell Carlyon, with no goal other than making 'killer fast' windsurfing boards, Styrotech originally started out making boards in a shed, and grew to the point of not only dominating the New Zealand windsurfing market, but ultimately becoming one of the finest producers of custom windsurfing boards in the world.
8 times NZ National Champion st PBA Brighton World Cup st PBA Noumea Dream Cup saw Styrotech manufacture over 300 boards for the first time. With private fundraising and sponsorship by Philips NZ Ltd. , the cars torpedo shaped body was designed and shaped by Trotter and built by the team at Styrotech. Interestingly, when the World Solar Challenge began , the winner’s average speed was 67km h. Strong competition results from Styrotech team sailors Russell Carlyon above left , Hamish Bayly right Scott Fenton in international events encouraged the first of many overseas orders. In the era of professional windsurfing and the Professional Boardsailors Association PBA , Styrotech quickly realised that there was a significant market for high performance custom boards overseas.
Indeed there was, and Styrotech began to not only market and sell the Styrotech brand overseas, but also make white boards ie. Opening for business in 1994, Styrotech CNC was born the combination of CAD and CAM resulting in Styrotech CNC becoming the first organisation in NZ to offer end to end 3D design, shaping and machining services. And, as the windsurfing industry developed, and the prominence of Formula Windsurfing increased, Styrotech put to good use the technology it now had available namely CAD design and CNC machining and so thus CAM Compter Aided Manufacture manufacturing and became involved with the design of initially course racing boards, and subsequently full on and Formula race wide. By using CAD, Styrotech became nationwide pioneers of the technology which is now the industry standard. Originally founded in 1984 as a partnership between Kevin Trotter and Russell Carlyon, with no goal other than making 'killer fast' windsurfing boards, Styrotech originally started out making boards in a shed, and grew to the point of not only dominating the New Zealand windsurfing market, but ultimately becoming one of the finest producers of custom windsurfing boards in the world.
8 times NZ National Champion st PBA Brighton World Cup st PBA Noumea Dream Cup saw Styrotech manufacture over 300 boards for the first time. With private fundraising and sponsorship by Philips NZ Ltd. , the cars torpedo shaped body was designed and shaped by Trotter and built by the team at Styrotech. Interestingly, when the World Solar Challenge began , the winner’s average speed was 67km h. Strong competition results from Styrotech team sailors Russell Carlyon above left , Hamish Bayly right Scott Fenton in international events encouraged the first of many overseas orders. In the era of professional windsurfing and the Professional Boardsailors Association PBA , Styrotech quickly realised that there was a significant market for high performance custom boards overseas.
Indeed there was, and Styrotech began to not only market and sell the Styrotech brand overseas, but also make white boards ie. Opening for business in 1994, Styrotech CNC was born the combination of CAD and CAM resulting in Styrotech CNC becoming the first organisation in NZ to offer end to end 3D design, shaping and machining services. And, as the windsurfing industry developed, and the prominence of Formula Windsurfing increased, Styrotech put to good use the technology it now had available namely CAD design and CNC machining and so thus CAM Compter Aided Manufacture manufacturing and became involved with the design of initially course racing boards, and subsequently full on and Formula race wide
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