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New Underwater Coatings

SeaCoat Technology released several underwater hull coatings ahead of IMO standards. The products are non-toxic, biocide and poison free, and are free from any IMO regulations or limitations in use or application. Sea-Speed V3 is its new hard film siloxane foul release bottom paint. It is an evolution in silox- ane (silicone) based non-toxic coatings for underwater hulls. With a 7-10 year useful life, SeaCoat claims to have taken siloxane technology to the next level.

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Furuno Offers New Radar

Furuno introduced its

FR8062/8122/8252 Series X-band radars. Offering a variety of power lev- els and range scales, the new series includes Furuno's 6 kW model FR8062 (72 nm max. range), 12 kW model

FR8122 (72 nm max. range) and 25 kW model

FR8252 (96 nm max. range).

The radars incorporate video processing technology and loga- rithmic amplifiers with automatic tuning and anti-clutter controls.

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New Shaft Coating

Thordon

Bearings intro- duced Thor-

Coat, a new pro- prietary shaft coating formu- lated to address the risk of coat- ing failures on water lubricated propeller shafts. Thor-

Coat was developed to complement

Thordon's COMPAC water lubricated propeller shaft bearing system to pro- vide corrosion protection for a minimum 10-year period in service. Thordon is working with Class to develop approval for other techniques, such as borescop- ing, that facilitate inspection of the bear- ings and coating without withdrawing the shaft.

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New ESAB m3 Plasma

Cutting System

ESAB's m3

Plasma System combines multi- ple plasma cut- ting and mark- ing features in a single system.

The m3 system is designed to deliver high-speed, low-cost standard plasma cutting; high-quality precision cutting and marking; and high-current, thick-plate cutting all with a single plas- ma torch. When configured for 600-amp operation, the system can cut and mark material from 20 ga. to 6.25 in. (1mm to 160mm) with uniform quality.

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New Diesel Performance

Analyzer

Drew Marine, a business group of

Ashland Specialty Chemical, a division of Ashland Inc. introduced an upgrade to its diesel performance monitoring sys- tem, the DREW Diesel Performance

Analyzer IV (DPA IV). The DPA IV sys- tem relies upon a computer interface with sensors attached to the engine.

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