by Satzuma-Creative | May 12, 2019 | News
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...
by Satzuma-Creative | May 9, 2019 | News
A design change in the choice of window glass during the recent building of a luxury yacht (designed by a top sports car manufacturer) has been solved by Belzona. The window profiles, which with had already been built, were not compatible with the glass thickness....
by Satzuma-Creative | Apr 18, 2019 | News
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...
by Satzuma-Creative | Apr 8, 2019 | News
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...
by Satzuma-Creative | Apr 2, 2019 | News
Counterfeit parts and poor quality servicing have always been a major problem, and is of particular concern to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). These parts can not only have a significant detrimental effect on the running of equipment, but in some cases can...
by Satzuma-Creative | Mar 28, 2019 | News
Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) has completed a major refit of the Stena Drilling-owned 5thgeneration, semi-submersible drilling rig Stena Don. The vessel arrived at DVR in October 2018 and departed for her new contract off the UK’s Shetland Islands in February 2019....