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The new MTU of North America facility located in Corporate Park off Highway 59 in Sugar Land, Texas, near Houston. The building cost is in excess of $1 million and is constructed of concrete, limestone, and tilt-wall panels. The building houses a special testing station for MTU engines up to 2,500 hp, and its foundation is capable of supporting a 10-ton crane.

MTU/North America Opens

U.S. Corporate Headquarters In Houston

McGraw-Edison Names

R.V. Jeck President Of

Worthington Pump Unit

Robert V. Jeck has been named president and chief executive of

Worthington Pump, Inc., a Mc-

Graw-Edison Company, it was an- nounced recently. \ jm*

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Robert V. Jeck

A graduate of Iowa State Uni- versity, Mr. Jeck received his

MBA degree from the Wharton

Graduate School, and has partici- pated in advanced management programs at the London School of Economics and the Harvard

Graduate Business School. A for- mer lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, admiral's aide, and Naval Intelli- gence School instructor, Mr. Jeck began his career with E.I. Du

Pont, where he assumed various responsibilities in product devel- opment, marketing, and manufac- turing.

Mr. Jeck later joined Amerace

Corp., where he served as presi- dent of the Stimsonite and EMC

Divisions. He was Group vice president of Amerace and presi- dent of Amerace Brands Division, as well as a member of the board of directors of Anchor Coupling before joining Worthington.

Mr. Jeck is chairman of the board of the Motor Equipment

Manufacturers Association and president of the board of direc- tors of the Truck Safety Institute.

Worthington Pump, based in

Mountainside, N.J., manufactures pumps at 23 facilities in 13 coun- tries for the electric utility and public works, petroleum, chemical and petrochemical, marine, agri- cultural, and general industries.

Booklet Available From

Kaiser Chemicals On

Corrosion Protection

The use of aluminum alloy an- odes to provide improved ca- thodic protection for offshore oil structures and vessels is the sub- ject of a booklet available from

Kaiser Chemicals. It offers cor- rosion engineers guidance on an- ode selection and essential fac- tors in the design of a more ef- ficient cathodic protection sys- tem, and includes a detailed anode selection nomograph and draw- ings of typical anode cross sec- tions and cores. Other photos and drawings illustrate aluminum an- odes in flush-mounted hull, bal- last tank, heater treater, and mul- tipurpose applications. The com- pany, which has a marine anode production capacity of 10 million pounds annually, also uses the booklet to discuss the importance of continuing research and qual- ity control in the production of efficient corrosion control prod- ucts. Copies of the brochure may be obtained by writing James J.

Driscoll, Kaiser Chemicals, Kaiser

Center, Room 1139, 300 Lakeside

Drive, Oakland, Calif. 94643.

Bridgestone Receives $5-Million Order For

Hose For LOOP Terminal

Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd., To- kyo, Japan, recently received a sizable order for large-bore ma- rine hose for unloading crude oil, from Fluor Ocean Services, Inc.,

Houston, Texas, who is the con- tractor for the project of the

Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP).

The contract will amount to approximately $5-million on CIF basis.

The LOOP Marine Terminal will be the first deepwater port in the United States capable of unloading crude oil from super- tankers up to 700,000 deadweight tons, and will be located approxi- mately 19 miles offshore the state of Louisiana, where three single- point mooring buoys will start operating in July 1980.

In the first phase of the oper- ations, it is expected that 1.4 million barrels will pass through per day, with the terminal ac- commodating 330 tankers annu- ally.

The marine hose, to be used in the LOOP Marine Terminal for transporting crude oil from the tanker to the single-point moor- ing buoy, has an inside diameter of 24 inches, the largest bore of marine hose in the world, and had to meet the highest industry standards.

MarAd Offers Important

New Handbook On

Firefighting At Sea

The Maritime Administration has released a marine fire preven- tion handbook developed under a jointly sponsored MarAd/U.S.

Coast Guard contract. It contains almost 400 pages of invaluable information.

The handbook, "Marine Fire

Prevention—Firefighting and Fire

Safety," will be used in the train- ing of merchant mariners in fire prevention and control.

The original concept for the handbook was developed by the

Maritime Training Advisory

Board, a group of maritime labor and management executives in- terested in improving and enhanc- ing the skills of seafarers.

The manual has been distrib- uted to the U.S. Merchant Marine

Academy, Kings Point, N.Y., the six state maritime academies, and maritime labor schools. Copies of the manual are available from the

Superintendent of Documents,

MTU of North America, Inc., a subsidiary of MTU Friedrich- shafen West Germany, and dis- tributor of high-performance die- sel engines, officially opened its corporate headquarters in Hous- ton, Texas, recently with a second facility in Morgan City, La. MTU of North America is an extension of MTU's worldwide marketing and product support system, de- signed to provide immediate serv- ice to MTU customers of the Gulf

Coast.

The facility is located in a new large industrial park, Corporate

Park, off Highway 59 in Sugar

Land, just southwest of Houston, with ready access to Freeport,

Galveston and other coastal areas.

The new building alone cost over $1 million to construct. The structure occupies 10,000 square feet, with 3,000 square feet of offices and 7,000 square feet for warehouse and workshop areas.

It features a special testing station for new and rebuilt MTU diesel engines. Valued at over $100,000, the test stand, equipped with a cooling tower and dyna- mometer, exactly simulates actual running conditions for engines up to 2,500 bhp so that they can be thoroughly tested before installa- tion. There is also a special air- conditioned room for the testing of injection pumps and nozzles.

U.S. Government Printing Office,

Washington, D.C. 20402 (Stock

Number 003-007-00099-5; price $8).

Omnithruster Adds New

Maneuvering Systems —Literature Available

Serving the marine industry for a number of years in solving maneuvering problems, Omni- thruster Inc. is now offering lit- erature describing five new low- cost PV Systems. The PV Sys- tems have been created for ves- sel owners who want the strength

Peter Moeller, executive vice president and general manager of

MTU of North America, was re- sponsible for overseeing the con- struction of the new facility near

Houston. He is in charge of staff- ing the new company, as well as heading its daily operations.

The specially trained personnel at Houston and Morgan City are on call 24 hours a day, every day of the year, to assist customers in selecting appropriate power systems, and to provide complete follow-up service. MTU of North

America maintains a fleet of mo- bile units (including a $90,000 service and spare parts inventory vehicle).

MTU of North America main- tains a one-million-dollar inven- tory of spare parts. The inventory is computer-controlled, and low stocks are automatically replaced via a direct computer link-up to the main plant in Friedrichshafen,

Germany. There are over three million dollars in complete engine assemblies stocked in Houston and Morgan City. Ninety percent of these engines are sold and soon to be delivered to clients.

MTU of North America ex- pects to expand its operations along the Gulf Coast beyond the existing facilities at Houston and

Morgan City. and features of the Omnithruster but do not require all the features of the Omnithruster JT System.

The PV Systems range from 50 to 350 horsepower and from 1,000 to 6,000 pounds of nozzle thrust. Like all Omnithruster systems, the PV Systems meet the basic requirements of maneu- vering underway and in strong currents.

For full details and literature on the low-cost PV Systems, write Violet J. Winslow, Omni- thruster Inc., Dept. 7A, 16837

South Normandie Avenue, Gar- dena, Calif. 90247.

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