Pascal, why did you create TAZ?
Originally a mountain guide, and a RAT since 1988, I ran a rope access services company from 1996 to 2006.
As certain maneuvers made me sweat, one day, while working on cables and watching (endlessly) the ski lifts, I had this idea:
Why not make the perch of a ski lift on a rope? … This would allow you to descend on taut ropes. With the help of an angle grinder and a drill, I assembled the first prototype in my garage. It worked!
After creating a fairly successful initial prototype, we filed our first patent application in 2002.
But it wasn’t until 2010, after many twists and turns, when I was recovering from knee surgery and realized that nothing had been launched on the market in the meantime, that I decided it was time to take the plunge.
With the help of a designer friend, we finalized the preliminary plans and the actual prototype, which I was going to present to sailors at the Port la Forêt offshore sailing training center (known as the Vallée des Fous, or Valley of Fools…). I immediately gained the support of 10 skippers who made a subscription.
The Olivette was born.
I then created TAZ to manufacture and market this device, while also becoming self-employed to work on certifying rope access technicians.
The idea of developing this product so that it would work in all rope access situations, thereby creating a tool truly suited to working at height, took root in 2012 and led to new patents and the LOV2 prototype in 2015.
At the same time, the team grew and TAZ became a simplified joint stock company (SAS) with the ambition of giving its manufacturing industrial reliability while retaining the spirit of innovation and agility of its artisanal origins.
LOV2 was designed and manufactured for you, to increase your mobility and capacity on the ropes.
Ready for action !
LOV2 plates ready for assembly