KINAROAD Information

Quality, because surfing is simply a better experience on a quality made product. Crafted locally because we believe in eliminating supply chain inefficiencies and investing in the communities in which products are sold. To bring surfboard manufacturing back to Australia: by providing brands with a local manufacturing solution that delivers higher quality and accurate replication of designs; is more demand reactive with a low lead time; is a capital efficient and cost competitive alternative to offshore production. kinaroad offers an EPS/Epoxy manufacturing service that provides an authentic alternative to offshore production alternatives. We operate a lean manufacturing environment that uses innovative technology to deliver cost efficiencies. Our solution enables surfboards to be expediently and accurately machined, reducing the need for manual fine shaping or fin box routing. Unlike existing shaping machines, this saves time and increases efficiency, whilst ensuring that every board is consistently shaped to the designers specification. Designed to be fully compatible with Shape3D and Aku design software, designers simply upload their existing design files to our machining platform in order to have them faithfully replicated. If you are a surfboard shaper or brand owner, contact us to see if we can assist you with your manufacturing requirements click here for customer enquiries. Over the past decade surfboard production has been steadily moving offshore to low labour cost countries that can offer super low prices. Consequently many of the brand name surfboards now sold in Australia are imported from Thailand, Vietnam and China. Despite low price there are other hidden costs to this model. For example, lower quality, unfaithful replication of designs and long lead times. Geographical dislocation makes it difficult for the surf brand to manage quality issues. There are high working capital requirements given that boards must be paid before shipping. A long lead time means that brands must predict ahead of ...