Award for seawater-lucricated propeller shaft

Award for seawater-lucricated propeller shaft

Thordon Bearings’ COMPAC seawater-lubricated propeller shaft bearing system has won the coveted 2019 Seatrade Award for Clean Shipping, in recognition of the technology’s capacity to completely eradicate operational oil pollution from ships’ stern tubes. The Clean...
Antifouling System wins ATEX Approval

Antifouling System wins ATEX Approval

Sonihull, the world’s leading ultrasonic anti-fouling system, has just been certified in compliance with 94/9/EC ATEX Approval, the regulation applied to all equipment intended for use in explosive atmospheres. With this approval, Sonihull becomes the first ultrasonic...
Advanced Polymers name new marine coatings rep

Advanced Polymers name new marine coatings rep

Stephen Jarvie has joined Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) as a Marine Coatings Representative, responsible for sales of the MarineLINE® cargo tank coating system in parts of Europe. According to James R. DeChant, APC Vice President, Sales & Marketing, “We are...
Thai Aluminum: Shape and Weld

Thai Aluminum: Shape and Weld

By Alan Haig-Brown When Khun Namchai Sakunchoknamchai was seven years old he like cars. So he built himself one out of wood. Decades later, he was building those big beautiful custom tour buses that are a feature of Thai roads. When he wanted a 30 million baht machine...
Old-style yard: Thai Teak and Cummins Diesel

Old-style yard: Thai Teak and Cummins Diesel

By Alan Haig-Brown From the early 17th to the mid 18th century the Dutch maintained a post on the Chao Phraya River near the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya. Today little remains of the old Dutch buildings but a fine new museum has been built on the site, Baan...