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damchab
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Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby damchab » Sun Oct 08, 2017 10:10 am

ALpinefoil team is happy to share with you some picture of our French factory based in French Alps
you will discover how our hydrofoil are made in France using the best CNC technologie to cut carbon prepreg layer, CNC Milling for our fuselage Aluminium, Titanium, and all parts like , Plate, Box ...
The cabon is press at High pressure and High temperature and hand made laminated with the best carbon quality from Hexcel Carbon.
Hope you will like french production

Damien , Alpinefoil Designer and Funder

https://youtu.be/JfSQX4rTPec

http://www.alpinefoil.com/

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Re: Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby fogmeister » Sun Oct 08, 2017 1:58 pm

nice video damien, nice to see some of the process!

i can vouch for the supreme quality and functionality of the alpine foil, an absolute sublime ride!!

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Re: Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby matt_81a » Sun Oct 08, 2017 9:59 pm

Lol - so can I ;)

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Re: Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby NYKiter » Mon Oct 09, 2017 5:41 am

Cool. Makes me want to buy a hydraulic press...

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Re: Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby RogerTheFair » Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:36 am

Damien, can you explain these : link alibaba 1 link alibaba 2 ?

Hydrofoils made in China strangely looking exactly like Alpinefoil 4.5 !

And this : link aliexpress ?

An Alpinefoil 5.0 in the background of picture n°4 !

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Re: Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby FrederikS » Mon Oct 09, 2017 1:45 pm

Looks nice, maybe except for handling pre-preg without gloves.

Carbon copies from China :o

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Re: Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby TomW » Mon Oct 09, 2017 7:47 pm

FrederikS wrote:
Mon Oct 09, 2017 1:45 pm
Looks nice, maybe except for handling pre-preg without gloves.

Carbon copies from China :o
Yes, you'd think that was China, without the gloves.

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Re: Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby damchab » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:36 am

Thanks for giving links from Alibaba, on the 2 first link this supplier is using the picture from internet, the first picture of 4.5 is a picture made in my home , the second one is a picture made by one of my american dealer near his swiming pool
and for the third link , we know tha actually a big surf brand is making copy or our 5.0 carbon we think it is a picture when this big brand carry the foil in a chinese company to do it. fortunatly ou lawyer are in charge of this. as you could see in the video Alpinefoil factory is french and manufacturing is done in france

Don't hesitate to come visit us

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Re: Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby Rufusz » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:30 pm

damchab wrote:
Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:36 am
...
Don't hesitate to come visit us
Does this offer stands for Chinese engineering students as well? ;)

Just kidding, your foils are state of the art!

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Re: Kitefoil Manufacturing - Alpinefoil Factory

Postby Johhnn » Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:13 am

I enjoyed the factory tour. I have the 5.0 titanium ultimate and it is fantastic! I have more than 2000 miles on it this season. The ride is smooth, fast and stable.


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