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To quote from HotSpring.com: "Only Hot Spring offers Endurol®, a high-impact, co-extruded thermoplastic, which is a single, solid surface that can never de-laminate." The material is backed by ABS plastic which is co-extruded with the end result being that it cannot come apart. I have been around this stuff - from HotSpring and other makes such as D1 "
Playing devil's advocate here....How can Hot Spring claim they are the only ones to use a thermal plastic shell when D-1 also has a thermal plastic shell?
The Hallums started out by selling spas in a small store, and then decided they could make a better product themselves.
And the brand that they sold all those years ago was ??