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Robert E. Zitner

Forms Omega Marine

Robert E. Zitner has established

Omega Marine, a small boatbuild- ing company in West Palm Beach,

Fla. Mr. Zitner is a graduate of the University of Michigan, in naval architecture, and has held senior management positions at

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Equitable

Equipment Company, and Lan- tana Boatyard.

Omega Marine will be construct- ing commercial and military boats ranging in size from 21 to 65 feet in length. Stock designs are avail- able for a variety of craft, includ- ing flush-deck workboats, small (up to 50 feet) landing craft and patrol, rescue and fireboats. The company has complete marine de- sign and naval architectural serv- ices, and will be developing custom designs to suit specific require- ments.

For further information, call or write Omega Marine, 135 Green- wood Drive, West Palm Beach,

Fla. 33405.

Abex/Denison Promotes

W. Grimes And R. Holmes

D.J. O'Rourke, vice president- marketing, has announced several organizational changes in the Mar- keting Department of Abex Cor- poration, Denison Division, Co- lumbus, Ohio. The changes have been made, he said, to further in- crease the effectiveness of service to the division's customers for fluid power components and sys- tems.

Werner Grimes

Werner Grimes has been pro- moted to the position of product manager-valves, and is now re- sponsible for all aspects of Abex/

Denison hydraulic valve engineer- ing, manufacturing and market- ing. He had been sales manager- valves for the past year.

Mr. Grimes has served in vari- ous sales positions since joining

Denison in 1955, including periods as sales manager for Denison Di- vision, Abex International, Paris,

France, and as sales manager of

Denison Hydraulics, Japan, Ltd.

He attended college preparatory and technical schools in Germany, and studied in the University of

Houston College of Engineering.

Robert L. Holmes has been pro- moted to manager-sales adminis- tration, and heads the division's newly formed Sales Administra- tion Group. He had been product manager-valves since joining

Denison in 1962.

Robert L. Holmes

Mr. Holmes is a mechanical en- gineering graduate of Ohio State

University, and a registered pro- fessional engineer in the state of

Ohio. Prior to joining Denison, he had more than eight years of ex- perience in the design and devel- opment of hydraulic equipment.

In his new position, Mr. Holmes reports to Robert D. Montgomery, director-marketing administra- tion.

Denison designs, manufactures and markets worldwide a complete line of hydraulic pumps, motors, valves, transmissions and hydrau- lic presses.

In addition to its plants in Co- lumbus, Marysville and Delaware,

Ohio, Denison has plants and sales offices in Canada, Denmark, Eng- land, France, India, Italy, Japan, and West Germany. The company is represented in the United States through a network of independent fully qualified and authorized dis- tributors, and throughout the world by a network of sales and service affiliates.

Denison's parent company,

Abex Corporation, is a subsidiary of IC Industries, Inc., Chicago, 111.

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First Seal, Inc.

Application Approved

The Assistant Secretary, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Mari- time Administration, has ap- proved in principle the applica- tion by First Seal, Inc., 3305

Avenue S, Galveston, Texas, for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of two oceangoing tug/supply vessels.

The vessels will carry provi- sions and construction materials to offshore drilling sites, and en- gage in towing operations as needed. They also have the capa- city of accommodating research and oceanographic charters.

Rysco Shipyard, Inc., Rockport,

Texas, is shipbuilder for the two vessels, M/V Red Seal, and M/V

Black Seal. Each of the vessels will have an overall length of approximately 185 feet, a molded beam of 38 feet, and a fully loaded molded draft of 12 feet 3 inches. They are rated at 2,500 horsepower each.

The combined estimated actual cost of the two tug/supply ves- sels is $4,486,000. They are eli- gible for Title XI guarantees of 87% percent of that amount.

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