Curious as to who and how many companies produce the standard material's used to build the kite?
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Who are the manufactures for the material used for kites?
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Re: Who are the manufactures for the material used for kites?
一些中國公司如常。stxkites wrote:Curious as to who and how many companies produce the standard material's used to build the kite?
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Re: Who are the manufactures for the material used for kites?
Acker...where on Kite-Stuff? I wasnt able to find anything on the site
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Re: Who are the manufactures for the material used for kites?
most good brands use a Japanese material, from what I know the other materials available all will stretch out.
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Re: Who are the manufactures for the material used for kites?
Teijin from Japan is the main supplier. Unfortunately, their monster price increases each year are partly responsible for Kite prices continuously rising even during a bad economy.
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Re: Who are the manufactures for the material used for kites?
So what material is used by Cabrinha then? I hear it isn't, or wasn't Tenjin.
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Re: Who are the manufactures for the material used for kites?
We use a proprietary material that is over 2X the tear strength of the other guys' material. Notice our kite prices did not increase, but actually decreased for 2010.
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Re: Who are the manufactures for the material used for kites?
Hi mate,Cab Driver wrote:We use a proprietary material that is over 2X the tear strength of the other guys' material. Notice our kite prices did not increase, but actually decreased for 2010.
Is that for the material of the 2010 kites or did you use the stronger stuff for the 2009 kites too?
The material of my 2009 SB IDS started to deteriorate after 8 months of the purchase...
My dealer said that's not covered under warranty.
I just hope my new kites will last longer!
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