MARIO FERMINIO

[ BRAZIL ]

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Born in the city of Laguna Santa Catarina but currently living in Florianópolis. In 1985, Mario started shaping polyurethane blanks [PU], and then in the years from 1989 to 1991, learned everything about epoxy in France. Upon returning to Brazil he lived in Guarujá [São Paulo], because at the time it was the best surf city in Brazil. While there, he worked with the best professional surfers of that time, surfing with epoxy surfboards.

Mario built a factory in 2005 that provided an ecological end to the waste of the surfboards and subsequently developed an ecologically-sound manufacturing process. In 2007, Mario decided to make an ecological manifesto during the world surfing championship in Hossegor, France. With all this going on, he witnessed a surfing market that was totally detached from his purpose and values, so in 2012, stopped making epoxy surfboards. Mario is currently developing a revolutionary, vegetable-based resin for surfboards which could transform the industry. Watch this space...

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