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PRODUCTS

Thordon’s New Bearing

Informational Portal

Thordon Bearings has unveiled a web-based platform to provide in- formation about the commercial, technical and environmental ad- vantages of using grease-free and water-lubricated polymer bearings across a wide variety of applications.

Shell Marine 40 Launched

The website is designed to provide for Tug Markets shipowners, shipyards and propul-

Shell Marine 40, an engine oil for 40 Years of Henriksen Hook sion system integrators with the in- high-speed diesel engines in the tug- Henriksen Hooks will celebrate formation they need to make more boat segments, enhances the perfor- the 40th birthday of its boat lifting informed procurement decisions, mance of engines on board some of hook in July. Since its introduction especially with regards to water-lu- the world’s hardest working vessels. in 1978, the Henriksen hook has bricated propeller shafts.

Formulated to react to the combus- become established among users as a www.thordonbearings.com tion processes that take place in high- safe and reliable means of launching speed engines, it gives added protec- a boat from a single crane. With over tion and extended machinery life to 10,000 hooks now in use around vessels whose unavailability can have the world, Henriksen’s 100 percent disproportionate cost consequences safety record still stands since its