Boatbuilding Materials & Machinery

Yamaha explores use of flax-based composites in prototype PWC

By 2024-09-13T11:26:00

Tomoki Ito (left) and Kenjiro Fujii lead Yamaha’s efforts to develop FRP as a boat building material

Plant-derived fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) seen as more sustainable option to GRP in both boat manufacturing and life-end disposal

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