ProSlide Technology
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
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| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Richard D. Hunter |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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Worldwide |
| Products | Water slides |
| Website | www |
ProSlide Technolog, Inc.® is a Canadian manufacturer of water rides and water park resorts. They manufacture both traditional slides and innovative rides such as water coasters, funnel-shaped TORNADO® slides, and Bowl slides. More recently, they have received some additional attention for being the first water slide manufacturer to build a water slide using linear induction motors.
Coming from a background of alpine ski racing, Richard D. Hunter founded ProSlide Technology Inc. in 1986. As of 2017, Hunter still serves as ProSlide's President and CEO; he designs most of the products that ProSlide offers, including the Tornado, HydroMAGNETIC®, CannonBOWL™, and BehemothBOWL™. ProSlide maintains a continuous ProSlide Product Development Program with the goal of allowing their clients to continue adding new ProSlide products to their water parks each year.
During the early 2000s, ProSlide manufactured the majority of the water park industry's award-winning rides. For example, in 2005, three of the top five Golden Ticket Award winners for Best New Ride for 2005 (Water Park) were rides manufactured by ProSlide. The Black Anaconda at Noah's Ark Water Park, which placed first, was a ProSlide Rocket; the third-place Typhoon at Six Flags New England and the fifth-place Funnel of Fear at Michigan's Adventure were ProSlide Tornados. ProSlide also had two of the top three winners for Best Waterpark Ride in 2004, 2005 and 2006, with Holiday World and Splashin' Safari's Zinga (ProSlide Tornado) and Zoombabwe (ProSlide Mammoth) coming in second and third, respectively; Master Blaster, a water coaster at Schlitterbahn New Braunfels made by NBGS International, won the award.
ProSlide debuted three types of water slides in 1987, which they continue to make today: Twisters, Kidz, and Plummets, which are all types of body flumes. In 1989, the first rides using inner tubes opened (Pipeline). More recently, they have built 4-person family slides (Mammoths), funnel-shaped slides (Tornados), bowl-shaped slides (Bowls), and uphill water coasters (Rockets).
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