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development of special lighting effects, patterned and transparent composite, sound-integrated components, wooden and metallic finishes, three-dimensional waterslides and unique slide designs.” As a result of Polin’s dedication to innovation, the industry now has its first fully transparent composite waterslide, which according to Sohret, satisfied “the need for a premium quality, function, and price-advantaged solution compared to the transparent acrylic components that are typical.”


During the Park World Excellence Awards, Polin Waterparks was nominated in several categories, with its Glassy Looping Rocket ultimately being recognised as winner of the Best Product Innovation Award. It was also recognised as being among “Europe’s Best New Water Slides” by another publication.


Speaking at the time of the Park World Excellence Awards win, Sohret said: “We are very honoured to receive this prestigious award. The result is a reflection of our dedication to quality, innovation and technology in delivering game-changing attractions.


“Polin Waterparks would like to thank all award-jury members for their support, and we are so proud that they chose to bestow this distinction on our newest innovation. We believe the Glassy Looping Rocket is a breakthrough for the entire aquatics industry, and for it to already be receiving awards simply makes us that much prouder,” she noted.


Features of Glassy • Premium Quality • Functional, Price-Advantaged Solution Compared to the Transparent Acrylic Components • High-Tech Composite Raw Materials • Special High-Strength Resin • Special Glass Fibre • Mechanically as Strong as Traditional Production Technologies


• Perfect Chemical Durability Against Uv And Pool Chemicals


Why Glassy? Sohret Pakis, director of marketing and communications explains…..


The Glassy material is the unique result of an R&D project that started 4 years ago. It is the first fully transparent composite water slide part in the water park sector. In the material, refractive indices of resin and fibre are almost the same. Therefore, the fibre inside the composite material completely disappears.


This fibre gives an extra toughness against fracture to the composite leading a similar obtainable thickness in the final part compared with the opaque slide part thicknesses. The competitors’


material for the transparent slide is acrylic. As this material has a low fracture toughness, the thickness of the acrylic parts should be much higher resulting in a very heavy acrylic slide part.


Also, the acrylic slide parts are produced with a very special manufacturing technique using expensive moulds. This process leads to extremely high costs for acrylic tubes. Glassy slide parts are manufactured by using a similar process to our existing L-RTM method. Therefore the cost of Glassy will be significantly lower


than the cost of acrylic parts (but still higher than the opaque and translucent parts).


The acrylic slide parts do not have any connection flanges. Therefore very special steel flanges and insulation materials should be used during the assembly of acrylic tubes. Whereas Glassy slide parts have got their own connection flanges resulting in the same assembly process with the ordinary opaque slide proper. Moreover, with the use of special additives and coatings, the resistance against UV and chlorine


on the Glassy material is higher than the competitors’ materials. Finally, most of the damage that could occur during the use of Glassy slides, could be repaired at site via special techniques developed by Polin R&D.


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