Flaar Kft, the enterprise of Zoltán Mezey, senior lecturer of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Polymer Technology, gained awards at the Budapest Boat Show. With their sport sailboat, they gained not only the first prize, the greenest product award, and the most innovative Hungarian product award, but also their power-driven workboat gained the third prize at the competition. Interview with Zoltán Mezey about innovation, basalt reinforcements and reaction injection molding.
'Ideas just keep coming and coming to our mind, but now, we should rather not expand our product line, but we should increase the number of our current types. Since we have launched our company, we developed an almost unrealistic number of models. Fortunately, we can see the results as well: our model ‘37’ was the first Hungarian boat nominated for the prize ‘European Yacht of the Year’.
We also like doing experiments. At the Department of Polymer Technology, there were robust researches about basalt fibre. Although, this is an excellent reinforcing fibre, is still not widespread in boat building. because the reason is that boat building standards does not include basalt fibre, and it might not be used in analogy with the standards for glass fibres. I am currently looking for those aspects, where basalt can be implemented in the current regulative system. Reaction injection moulding also grabbed my attention, it is a technology with a significant potential, and we do a lot of experiments with it.' More
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