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Watercom Announces

New And Expanded

Subscriber Service

Representatives of Waterway

Communications Systems, Inc. (Watercom®) and International

Telecharge, Inc., Dallas, Texas, re- cently announced that a contract between the two organizations has been signed. ITI will provide

Watercom telephone subscribers with operator-assisted long distance services.

Watercom is the only direct- dialed Automatic Marine Tele- phone System (AMTS) serving the inland marine industry. Watercom already provides direct dial tele- communications services to com- mercial vessels operating along 4,000 miles of inland waterways, in- cluding the Ohio, Illinois, and Mis- sissippi rivers and the Gulf Intra- coastal Waterway. Other capabili- ties of the system include fax trans- mission and data services.

With the ITI service, Watercom subscribers will now be able to charge calls to all Bell calling cards,

VISA, MasterCard, American Ex- press, Discover, Carte Blanche, or

Diners Club credit cards or call col- lect.

Watercom is a registered trade- mark of Waterway Communications

Systems, Inc.

For more information and free lit- erature,

Circle 48 on Reader Service Card

Shipbuilding & Metal

Fabrication Conference

Set For October 4-5

The Shipbuilding and Metal Fab- rication Technology Conference will be held on October 4-5, 1988 at the

Radisson Hotel Hampton in Hamp- ton, Va.

The conference, sponsored by the

American Welding Society and their

Tidewater Section, will focus on new materials and technologies in the shipbuilding and metal fabrica- tion industries.

Geared for design engineers, ma- terials specialists, welding and in- dustrial engineers, tank fabricators, manufacturing supervisors, QA and

QC personnel, marine engineers and naval personnel, the conference will address four major areas of change in shipbuilding and metal fabrica- tion technology: new methods of construction/fabrication; new mate- rials in shipbuilding and fabrica- tion; process and control innova- tions in construction and fabrica- tion; and future directions of weld- ing and metal fabrication markets worldwide.

For further information, contact: the AWS Education Department,

American Welding Society, 550

N.W. LeJeune, P.O. Box 351040,

Miami, Fla. 33135; or telephone: 1- 800-443-9353.

Matrix Desalination Offers

Free Literature On 'Gold Series' Watermakers

Matrix Desalination, Inc. of Ft.

Lauderdale, Fla., is offering free lit- erature on their 'Gold Series'™ wa- termakers which are designed and built for applications where reliabil- ity is essential.

Matrix Gold Series watermakers are ideal for charter yachts, cruise ships, merchant and naval vessels, hotel resorts, basically wherever breakdowns and a lack of fresh water cannot be tolerated.

Matrix Desalination's technical staff in Florida is comprised of mer- chant and naval engineers, with the director of engineering being a li- censed chief engineer who has in excess of 25 years of service in Brit- ish nuclear submarines. The compa- ny's design and construction de- partment knows firsthand what is required for producing potable water at sea.

For more information and a free copy of the literature on the Gold

Series of watermakers from Matrix

Desalination,

Circle 37 on Reader Service Card

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