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Hertel Wax introduced the first surfactant-based spring ski wax in 1974, the first fluorocarbon product, and filed a US patent on sintered-base ski wax chemistry in 1990. The documented history of Hertel's innovations in ski wax science.

Wider daily temperature swings from climate change are making temperature-specific ski wax systems obsolete. Hertel's All-Temperature® formula — modified to adjust to changing conditions — is the direct answer.

The following is Terry Hertel speaking directly — in his own words, in his own voice. This is WAXFAX the way it was meant to be heard.Let me tell you something about snow that most skiers never think about.Snow is not a static surface. It is not a fixed thing you slide across. Snow is a constantly changing medium — changing by the hour, by the altitude, by the direction the slope faces, by whether the sun has hit it yet this morning. And every one of those changes affects how your ski base interacts with it.Most people think of...