Coloration of Hockey: Ramirez’s anti-fog resolution clears view at out of doors video games

How did Ramirez turn out to be a go-to anti-fog man? It all began washing automobiles. Ramirez had a store close to Honda Center and he detailed automobiles for Anaheim Ducks gamers on sport days in 2007.

“Me being Hispanic, Mexican specifically, I didn’t grow up playing hockey, I didn’t know anything about hockey,” he stated. “But when I started doing the players’ cars, I just wanted to get acquainted and familiarize myself with them. I started watching games so I could name them by name when they came and dropped off their car with me.”

Ramirez discovered himself slowly getting sucked into the game, watching it extra on TV and attending the Ducks’ morning skates when he dropped off automobiles. He stated the drop-offs grew to become a part of the game-day ritual for some gamers.

Brent Mater, senior director of operations at Honda Center/Anaheim Ducks, was impressed by the standard of Ramirez’s auto detailing work and requested whether or not there was something he might provide you with to scrub up the sector’s battle-scared boards and glass with out harming the ice or individuals.

“I was just looking at the glass, and back in the day, there weren’t a whole lot of products that you could use to keep the glass really looking sharp, especially after it went from tempered (glass) to acrylic,” Mater stated.

Mater gave Ramirez a few beat-up retired panes from the sector, and Ramirez took them to a chemist he labored with on compounds for auto detailing.

“After that, every so often I’d see him and he goes, ‘Hey, I think we’re getting closer to a solution,’” Mater stated.

About 9 months later, Ramirez confirmed Mater a glass pane within the area he handled along with his new-found resolution.

“To be honest, I thought he was pulling the wool over my eyes because I thought, ‘That’s a brand-new pane,’” Mater stated. “I asked my guys, ‘Did we just replace this pane?’ He (Ramirez) goes, ‘No, I worked on it this morning.’ I was completely blown away.”

Mater started speaking up Ramirez’s rink glass polish, which led to an indication of his product at Staples Center, now Crypto.com Arena, in 2009, and ultimately a distribution cope with Athletica Sports Systems, a designer and producer of rink dasher boards.

“I was just blown away that I just stumbled into this, and it was unbelievable that the industry didn’t have something in set place to maintain their acrylic,” he stated. “One thing led to another, and Clear D Zone Products was born.”

Opportunity knocked for Ramirez once more in 2015 when his distributor requested if he might provide you with an anti-fog resolution. Challenge accepted once more.

“I started doing research,” Ramirez stated. “I’m not a chemist, I’m just a car wash guy from Southern California, but I stumbled into the solution. So I called my chemist right away and I said, ‘Look, I’ve been doing this, this and this.’ He just laughed and said, ‘I can’t believe you stumbled into this. It works because of this and that. So let me mix up a solution for you.’”