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Article: SMART SKIS IRON OUT THE BUMPS REVOLUTION OR NOT, K2 RIDES PIEZO ROAD.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 7, 1998
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Just off the two-lane highway that runs through Vashon Island sits the wood-paneled headquarters of K2 Corp.
Vashon is the kind of place where, just down the road from the company, people leave their trucks unlocked, keys in the ignition, while they buy chicken feed.
K2, though, seems more standoffish.
In its front window, the company has a sign posted prominently that says, ``Sorry, No Factory Tours.'' At mention of the sign, Andy Luhn, a company spokesman, shrugs and mutters something about espionage.
It is here that the first convergence took place of commercial sports equipment and piezoelectric technology, a way of translating ...