Wetsuit maker Xcel recently announced they will be neoprene-free a year ahead of schedule. The post Wetsuit Maker Xcel Accelerates Plan to Go Neoprene-Free first appeared on The Inertia.

The non-profit estimates that up to 13,000 pounds of wetsuits ... She’ll be working with an industrial walking foot sewing machine ... ReSurf purchased an in-house neoprene shredding machine, ...

Bill Meistrell, 77; Helped Revolutionize Diving and Surfing With Light Neoprene Body Glove Wetsuit. By Valerie J. Nelson . July 28, 2006 12 AM PT . ... the machines run better.

Jack O'Neill popularised the use of neoprene wetsuits and founded a global surfwear brand. Skip to content. ... He went to surplus stores and started sewing pieces of material into vests, ...