Mervin manufacturing
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Mervin Manufacturing
Mervin manufacturing
Mervin Manufacturing is an American snowboard manufacturer. Mervin is the parent company of Liberace Technologies Snowboards, Gnu Snowboards, , Lib Tech Skateboards, and Bent Metal bindings. In the mid 90's Mervin was also an OEM supplier for companies such as Canada's Luxury brand and for The...

 is an American snowboard manufacturer. Mervin is the parent company of Liberace Technologies
Liberace Technologies
Lib Technologies is an American snowboard manufacturer known for its radically innovative approach to snowboard design. Often referred to as Lib Tech, the company falls under the umbrella of parent company Mervin Manufacturing...

 (aka Lib Tech) Snowboards, Gnu Snowboards, Roxy Snowboards, Lib Tech Skateboards, and Bent Metal bindings. In the mid 90's Mervin was also an OEM supplier for companies such as Canada's
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 Luxury brand and for The Movement Snowboards
The Movement Snowboards
The Movement was a snowboarding company in the Mervin Manufacturing family, existing only from 1995 to 1999. It was a Matt Donahue project. The company was arguably the most independent and art-oriented of the Mervin family, not having any notable professional riders on its team, with its catalogs...

.

Mervin was purchased by Quiksilver
Quiksilver
Quiksilver, Inc. , is an American company based in Huntington Beach, California, one of the world's largest manufacturers of surfwear and other boardsport-related equipment...

 in the late 1990s. Since this acquisition, Mervin has continued the tradition of making athletic snow equipment out of plastic
Plastic
A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids used in the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular mass, and may contain other substances to improve performance and/or reduce production costs...

, fiberglass
Fiberglass
Glass fiber is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass.Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with glass fibers, but mass manufacture of glass fiber was only made possible with the invention of finer machine tooling...

, heavy metals and fast growing trees. Mervin's original founders continue to reign supreme and promote the fact that their snowboards are made near Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

by snowboarders with jobs.

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