What are the main issues or trends in your industry currently?
One of the biggest trends is theming. Customers love stories, so they want the parks that they visit to tell them great stories, including the park’s rides. That means we need waterslides to be able to work with the themes and tell those stories too. That’s one of the reasons we created the King Cobra waterslide – the very first waterslide to build theming into its design—into the fibreglass itself.
What new technology are you working on?
On the manufacturing process, we’re focused on our RTM technology (resin transfer molding). This technology doesn’t simply improve the looks of slides, it also creates stronger slides that use less waste in the manufacturing process, which is critical in today’s environmentally conscious world.
The movement toward closed-molded technology will eventually displace conventional, traditional molding methods.