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The small blue or white flax flowers can be used to make boat hulls and even bridges. The world’s first flax bridge was inaugurated in the Netherlands. Tres resistant, with a low ecological impact, linen inspires engineers.
Delicate flax flowers are the future of even the most unexpected green buildings. In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, A bridge was built, no with some concrete, but with flax fibres. It was made in a Normandy company from plant matter and bio resin. “Today, by using flax, we are proving that we are moving to biosourced materials, with rather renewable and above all local resources”says Gwenn Prévost, research and development engineer EcoTechnilin.
Linen is ecological, but also light and efficient. It was in a field of flax that navigator Roland Jourdain had the revelation: he built his new boat 50% with flax fibres. UA Norman cooperative produced the plant material: one hectare of linen just for the hull of the boat. Will it be as fast as a fiberglass ship? Answer in November, where he will start the Route du Rhum.
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