Timeline Intruder
New area starting now...
2018 November
Intruder 22 Year Anniversary Limited Edition is produced and is shipping now.
Old guys meets again & Intruder relaunch is born
2018 October
Former Industry Leaders from well known factories in the alps and I meets for second Roundtable. First shapes where tested in february 2018 with a big smile. Agreed to make something special again. Intruder relaunch was born. Something really cool comes up.
Interesting Phone Call
2017 October
Long Phone Conference with some former Industry Leaders, about new ideas, new design, new concepts. Starting Design Process on my spare time.
Deleting Company
2017 July
Deleting Unicum Consulting & Marketing GmbH in June 2017 Trademarks transferred. Company was idle a a few years.
Renaming Company
2008 Februray
Intruder Sport Technologies GmbH got renamed into Unicum Consulting & Marketing GmbH. For Providing Consulting.
Caught a Virus
2005 October
After 7 years no holiday, catched morphus latin version virus, knocked me out for 2 years on wire and tubes in Emergency room.
New Challenge
2004 September
Started new Employment in a supplier to the entire industry, which was also Shareholder but got Order cancelations on chemicals from the Giants... Patent some stuff privately, granted 2005 and passed patents to an foundation :-) For later use.
New OEM Shapes
2004 April
Last OEM White Label Work for ELAN Austria, Ellim, Buzrun, Freesurf, LibTech, Morrow, China Factory. Freesurf didn’t relaunch. Factory got a fire…
Last Prototypes
2003 June
For reasons of the current developments with the venture story, last prototypes where build in autoclave. By the other hands, the last 38 OEM Shapes where produced in Factories straight out of our CAD Drawings and worked very well out.
New OEM Shapes
2002 May
Still developing new shapes under Intruder Sports Technology GmbH, mainly for Austrian and Chinese Factories for various Brands.
TopShots OEM
2002 January
OEM White label for Lamar, LibTech, GNU, Ride, CrazyCreek, Morrow, Vision, Airwalk, China & Austria Factory, markets Worldwide
New Factory China
2002 January
From my Consulting in Design, Process Management, Warehouse and Stock Supply and Material Handles Design, new China Factory from Windsor Chou topped everything, even first attempts of playmaker in Taiwan, which i visited a year ago. It was amazing to see, when you arrived you saw demolitions of old cities, when you left, first sky scrappers took already form.
TopShots OEM
2002 January
OEM White label for Lamar, LibTech, GNU, Ride, CrazyCreek, Morrow, Vision, Airwalk, and some others for China & Austria Factory, markets Worldwide
TopShots OEM
2001 January
OEM Whitelabel work for Elan Austria, Ellim Corp South Korea, Consulting to Never Summer (PTEX Sidewalls and Hanged Edges) and K2 (Half Cap damaged Edges)
TopShots OEM
2001 January
OEM White label for Lamar, LibTech, GNU, Ride, CrazyCreek, Morrow, Vision, Airwalk, China & Austria Factory, markets Worldwide
OEM DIAX Communication
2001 January
White label - delivering 2000 DIAX Communication branded Boards (never got paid, Sunrise TDC took over DIAX, before they went bankruptcy) Order was placed over Swiss Snowboard Magazin, naughty to think evil...
OEM Villiger Zigarren
2000 October
OEM Withleabel Series for swiss Villiger Zigarren, "Constellation Series", 50 pc RIM Construction
First OEM Factory work
2000 February - 2001 March
OEM Work with 12 shapes for a new taiwan based snowboard factory, various no name labels, export usa
First 3D-Alloy Molds
2000 February
First 3-D Mold cutted out from extruded aluminium block, for prototyping f.r. shape, produced by RUAG Aerospace. Later we also advised the byten fruit for unibody macpro books about 2006 briefly.
New Press Technology
11 hours ago via Twitter
Learned from RUAG Aerospace, but not affordable as smb, we build the worlds first self built and certified autoclave press system with fuzzy logic, wich resulted into a new age of prototyping, in association with Markus H.
Rohacell® Cores
1998 September
First carbon full cap 157 with rohacell mixed woodcores drops weight below 2.5 kg but amazing snappy flex
First Pre-Preg Series
August 1998
first series on prepreg laminates from aerospace industries, ditching wet sandwich lamination. Leaving Ruag Aerospace, and focus to making great boards only.
First Honeycomb Sandwich Core
1997 February
first kevlar honey comb mixed woodcore in V-design to save more weight. Full Cap 152 with 2.3 kg, doing this after my employement at ruag aerospace
First 3-D WoodCore
1996 June
first 3-D Fork Design Relief for better power transmission on hard packed ice, but flexible to tweak and twist. awesome
First Rocker Design
1996 February
first raceboard carbon full cap - with new edge design, what you call today rocker edge design
First Full Carbon Cap
1996 February
first Carbon Fullcap Freestyle Board, 156 with 2.7 kg weight, first hot pressed one.
Changing to Vacuum
1996 January
Switching from mechanical press systems to own developed vacuum press system. Due as many other does with flexible top and bottem parts, it doesn't provide exact amount of pressure on any mm2. Also adopting Heating Solution based on Carbon-Fiber Mates, developed by a friend of Mark Farner, Radical
Intruder was born
1995 November
first well designed Intruder Board 152 StarWars, lasted 5 years, we called it later banana due big long nose and tail..
First steps
1995 Octobre
First 2 pieces NoName, Sandwich ABS on own developed machine park, press and mold systems, second piece was already usuable. Preparation took 2 years.
A great journey
with some big rocks on the path
Die Entwicklung der Intruder Snowboards, Longboards war seit 1995 eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Irgendwann wurde es gross. Es traten Investoren auf. Damals waren wir mit 23-25 sehr jung, aber sehr progressiv. Die Ventures die daraus entstanden sind, und nie Intruder Snowbards betrafen, waren nicht ganz das, was man sich damals vorgestellt hat. Aber amüsant zum Lesen, wobei dies hier nur ein kleiner Abriss darstellt und locker ein Buch füllen könnte.