The establishment of the LASAK company was preceded by cooperation in research and development at the Sklo Union Research Institute, as well as cooperation with a number of Czech and foreign institutions, in the field of researching new materials for artificial tissue and organ replacements.
After the closure of the Sklo Union Research Institute, at the beginning of the 1990s, doc. Ing. Zdenek Strnad, CSc., together with Ing. Igor Riedl, CSc., motivated by previous successful research, decided to create a new centre where it would be possible to continue researching these advanced materials. Towards the end of 1991, they founded the LASAK company with its headquarters in Prague, where not only research, but also the realization of these promising materials was successfully achieved.
Doc. Ing. Zdenek Strnad, CSc.
Graduated from the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague in 1962, where he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on silicates. He habilitated there as an Associate Professor in 1992. From 1970 to 1971, he worked as an independent researcher at a number of universities in Great Britain. In 1986, he was employed by the Nippon Electric Glass Ltd., in Japan, as a consultant for glass ceramic materials. Prior to this, he had worked at the Sklo Union Research Institute for nearly 20 years (1974–92).
Ing. Igor Riedl, CSc.
Graduated from the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague in 1958 and was later awarded a postgraduate degree, “Candidate of Sciences” (CSc.). After he graduated, he became a technologist in the then national enterprise, “Prumyslove sklo” (Industrial Glass), at its “Ruzenin” plant. Later, he became a researcher in the Technical Glass Research Institute, in Prague, where he became a research group manager in 1968. He worked in research until 1990 when he was nominated Deputy Minister of Industry of the Czechoslovak Republic.
