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on March 1986—Free Catalog Offered TDI Catalog Sales, Transamerica Delaval, Inc., has introduced a convenient infrared thermometer kit that will handle all non-contact temperature measurement needs. The kit comes complete with thermocouple probe, test leads, type K naked bead probe, infrared thermometer,
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on March 1986Michell Bearings has announced the appointment of Peter Pagan as president of Michell Bearings, Inc. U.S.A. Mr. Pagan was formerly vice president and marketing director of American Metal Bearing. Michell Bearings is the original company founded in England by A.G.M. Michell FRS—the first ma
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on March 1986The semisubmersible rig Ocean Rover has set new world records for drilling the deepest offshore well and running the longest and heaviest casing string from a floating structure. Owned by Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO) of New Orleans, the rig achieved the records while drillin
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on March 1986CDI Marine Company recently announced the hiring of Franklin D. DufF as Naval Architecture Division manager for the Bremerton, Wash., office and Robert J. Butera as chief engineer for the Boston, Mass. office. Mr. Duff, as Naval Architecture Division manager, will be responsible for the adm
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on March 1986J.C. Hempel, founder of the Hempel Group of companies and chairman of the Hempel Foundation, passed away in Copenhagen recently at the age of 91. He was a legend in his lifetime, having in just over 70 years built up a worldwide organization from a relatively small beginning in Denmark. Hemp
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on March 1986Paul P. Swensen has been elected vice president and general manager of the Curtis Bay Towing Company of Pennsylvania, according to an announcement by Malcolm W. MacLeod, president. Mr. Swensen came ashore in 1976 to join Curtis Bay Towing as a dispatcher in the Baltimore office. In 1978, he
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on March 1986Kockums AB of Malmo, Sweden, has been awarded a contract by the Swedish Navy to install its airindependent propulsion system, based on the Stirling principle, in an existing conventional submarine. The combat efficiency will increase with an increase in submerged endurance, allowing the subm
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on March 1986A full-color 28-page catalog featuring both sleeve and flanged water-lubricated bearings is now available from the Duramax® Marine Division of The Johnson Rubber Company, Middlefield, Ohio. This comprehensive catalog serves as a useful guide for both heavy-duty commercial and pleasure craft
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on March 1986The 21,183-dwt heavy-lift cargo carrier Alps Maru was completed recently at Hitachi Zosen's Maizuru Works and delivered to co-owners Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Baba- Daiko Steamship Company. The new ship has an overall length of 475.7 feet, beam of 87.9 feet, depth of 45.3 feet, and full-load
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on March 1986The Coastal Corporation, Houston, Texas, recently completed the purchase of five Texaco marketing terminals and Texaco's interest in a refined products pipeline, significantly expanding the geographic coverage of its Belcher Oil marketing subsidiaries. Coastal's Belcher Oil subsidiaries are
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on March 1986Edward J. McManimon Jr., chairman of the South Jersey Port Corporation, and John J. Noonan, president of Stellar Technology Corporation, have announced the lease by the Port Corporation of 80,000 square feet of warehouse space to Stellar. Aggregate rental of the transaction is in excess of
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on March 1986Literature Offered Intertrade Industries of Huntington Beach, Calif., recently received an additional U.S. Navy contract for the supply of foam-filled marine fenders. Contract DLA500-86-C- 0758 was issued to the firm by the Defense Logistics Agency at Philadelphia for NSN 2040-00-807-4197
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on March 1986Penske GM Power, Inc. of Lodi, N.J., has announced the appointment of Richard J. Paine as marine marketing manager. Mr. Paine will assume the responsibility for the coordination of sales and promotion of Penske's line of high performance marine diesel propulsion units ranging from 135 to 1,8
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on March 1986Infrasonik AB of Finspong, Sweden, a subsidiary of ASEA STAL, has received an order from a major U.S. container shipping line, for 11 sets of Infrafone soot-removal equipment for installation in the exhaust gas economizers of the U.S. diesel vessels. The order was received through ASEA STAL
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on March 1986Ed Bonner, president and CEO of Leslie Co., is the 1986 chairman of the Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA). Larry Solley, group vice president and worldwide product director-Final Control Systems, Fisher Controls International, Inc., is the new vice chairman. Both were elected
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on March 1986Japan Radio Company, Ltd. (JRC) recently introduced two new products—the JLR-4000 Global Positioning System (GPS) Navigator and the GSC-80 On-Board Data Aut o m a t i c Recording System (ODARS). The GPS NAVSTAR system with timing and ranging is a completely new system that will eventually u
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on March 1986Teleflex Inc.'s Remote Actuation Systems Group has simplified remote valve actuation with the development of the Remote Mechanical Valve Actuator (RMVA). The system was designed to eliminate the corrosion, misalignment, and binding problems so often associated with reach rod and flexible sha
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on March 1986The Italian State shipbuilder Fin- cantieri recently garnered three contracts for a total of seven sophisticated vessels. These high-value ships account for the greater part of a shipbuilding package awarded to the company since Christmas valued at some $600 million. Fincantieri's Monfalcone
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on March 1986Aquafacs Marine Technical Services of Boston, Mass., and Los Angeles, Calif., has been awarded the in-water inspection and maintenance repair contract for the U.S. Coast Guard District 1, covering Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The contract provides for video inspecti
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on March 1986Quarterly Update On U.S. Navy Ship Procurement February 1986 IMA provides continuing coverage of the Navy ship procurement market. Each quarter several hundred subscribers receive indepth, analytical reviews of development affecting Navy business opportunities. This article is an excerpt