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Bath Saves Time-Money

With New Ship Insulation —Literature Available

Major cost and time savings in naval ship construction are esti- mated from a newly developed insulation being applied to FFG-7

Class guided-missile frigates un- der construction at Bath Iron

Works, Bath, Maine, a Congoleum company.

The new insulation, named Tuff

Skin™, was developed and tested in a cooperative program between the shipyard and the Claremont

Company of Meriden, Conn.

The Navy has authorized the use of Tuff Skin on the frigates being built at the shipyard, ac- cording to George Bliss, super- visor of value engineering at

Bath Iron Works, and adopted it as the Navy's standard for all new ships.

Mr. Bliss said use of the in- sulation in the frigates is saving approximately $100,000 per ship.

It is applied in machinery spaces. "Navy authorization was the culmination of an accelerated de- velopment and test program which required extensive fire and acous- tic tests of many different mate- rials," Mr. Bliss said.

For free literature containing complete details on "Tuff Skin," write to Robert C. Roy, Dept. MR,

Claremont Company, 174 State

Street, Meriden, Conn. 06450.

Supramar Reorganized

With Baron Hanns von

Schertel As President

Supramar of Switzerland has been reorganized and will now operate under the name Supra- mar Hydrofoils Ltd., and no long- er as Supramar AG.

Baron Hanns von Schertel has been appointed president of the renamed firm, and Harry Trevi- sani general manager.

The company will continue to operate at Ausserfeld 5, CH6362

Stansstad, Switzerland; telephone 041/613194, telex 78228. An en- larged team of designers will be working on further improvements of existing hydrofoil types, and developing a new type of hydro- foil/catamaran, for which the company sees a wide range of applications.

Lance Melik Appointed

Director Of Marketing

For Twin Disc, Inc.

Lance J. Melik

Lance J. Melik, formerly man- ager-product development, has been promoted to the position of director of marketing for Twin

Disc, Incorporated, Racine, Wise.

He will be responsible for the formulation and implementation of the company's marketing strategy.

Mr. Melik will supervise the following functions: product de- velopment, distribution market- ing, service engineering, market economics, marketing communi- cations, and marketing adminis- tration.

Since joining Twin Disc in 1967, Mr. Melik has held several positions within the Marketing

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