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Flax flowers are used to build boat hulls. In the Netherlands, the world’s first flax bridge was inaugurated. It is a resistant and ecological material.
Delicate flax flowers are the future of even the most unexpected green buildings. In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a bridge was built not with concrete, but with flax fibres. It was made in a Normandy company from plant material and bio resin. “Today, by using flax, we are proving that we can switch to biosourced materials, with rather renewable and above all local resources.“says Gwenn Prévost, EcoTechnilin research and development engineer.
Linen is ecological, but also light and efficient. It was in a flax field that navigator Roland Jourdain had the revelation: he built his new boat 50% with flax fibres. It was a Norman cooperative that produced the plant material: one hectare of flax just for the hull of the boat. Will it be as fast as a fiberglass ship? Answer in November, where he will start the Rum race.
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