FACTORY HISTORY
Before the recent merge with Signal Collective, the factory operated as Five Axis Manufacturing. In 2006 Five Axis celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Through the years boards built at Five Axis have received many TransWorld Magazine’s Good Wood awards. Riders and industry insiders give this award to companies for outstanding construction and performance. To date Five Axis has produced over 100,000 units and its products can be found in nearly every country around the world.

• US Manufacturing: In the US we are held to higher environmental standards for manufacturing than elsewhere in the world. In California these standards can be even tighter. Accordingly, our Huntington Beach-built snowboards are more attractive and responsible from an environmental standpoint. We follow all Federal EPA standards and State regulations very closely. As well, we’ve gone a step further by implementing a rigid set of internal guidelines intended to make our factory a haven for green practices like mandatory recycling and energy efficiency. Attention to handmade detail, superior quality control and responsible stewardship of the environment are hugely important issues to Signal, and we know they are to you too.

Materials: Many of the materials used in Signal construction come from the US: wood, plastics, steel edges, and epoxy resin are a few homegrown staples. This allows easier quality control, cuts lead times, and contrasts the current industry trend toward outsourcing Chinese labor and using toxic clear-coated top sheets. Incorporating a sound social and economic ethos is a key aspect of our daily production. Over the past decade we’ve brought every process of snowboard manufacturing in-house.