For our next newsletter, we look at some of the changes afoot with materials used for our marine products. Unlike vehicles used on land, Yamaha sport boats and WaveRunners have very different engineering and design requirements to ensure reliability and durability while in the water, so moving to more sustainable or recycled materials is not a simple matter of swapping them in and calling it a day. The engineering duo of Tomoki Ito and Kenjiro Fujii are conducting R&D into fiber-reinforced plastic using flax fiber as a raw material, and they have made significant enough progress in their work to exhibit a SuperJet using their results at the Japan International Boat Show 2024. “We believe we can expand the possibilities for the material across Yamaha’s many different business fields,” says Ito. Read on to learn more.
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Exciting development Yamaha!
I presented once an idea to go for bodyworks made from bamboo.
Now that’s what I’m talking about Yamaha! Nice work - and for all the other OEMs there’s zero excuse for not making every single part recyclable these days.
Awesome!
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Using plants to make 'recyclable' jet skis which run on oil... Wow! Hadn't seen that one coming... Healthy arable lands are becoming scarce (because of pesticides - not only jet skis were invented in Japan, neonicotinoids too: check what happened in Lake Shinji - and other long-lasting pollutants, desertification, sea level rise, etc.), agriculture is getting harder and harder with the accelerating climate change... BUT we sure need flax to make recyclable jet ski parts...