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on May 1985Gilles Courville, interim president of Bombardier/Alco Power Inc. in Auburn, N. V., has announced the appointment of C. Jay Slaybaugh as vice president and chief operating officer. Prior to joining Bombardier/Alco, Mr. Slaybaugh was president and chief executive officer of Rock of Ages Corp
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on April 1985Clemco Industries of Burlingame, Calif., is offering a family of internal pipe cleaning tools—Spin-Blast, Hollo-Blast, and Hollo-Blast Junior—designed to blast clean the interior of pipe or tubing ranging in size from %-inch to 36-inch I.D., without rotating the pipe. Used in conjunction with
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on April 1985McNab, Inc., Mt. Vernon, N.Y., a U.S.-based marine electronic instrumentation manufacturer and supplier, has announced it is now the exclusive American supplier of the Aquacatch® speed through water log, manufactured by Chernikeeff Instruments Ltd. of England. The Aquacatch, McNab says, is a
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on April 1985Matson Navigation Company of San Francisco has announced plans to convert its 700-foot trailership Matsonia to a combination lift-on/ lift-off containership and roll-on/ roll-off cargo carrier, and enlarge the vessel to provide nearly three times her present capacity. Plans approved by the c
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on April 1985Moss Point Marine Inc., Escatawpa, Miss., recently delivered ahead of schedule the Amfish, a new 219- foot freezer/stern trawler to Searay Partners L.P. of New York. John Dane III, president of Moss Point Marine said "while we don't have statistics on all fishing vessels, we are confident th
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on April 1985Contecco, Inc., Springfield, N.J., has been appointed exclusive sales agent in the U.S. for Kvaerner Ships Equipment AB, of Gothenberg, Sweden. This was jointly announced by Kvaerner's managing director, Gustaf Stolk and Contecco, Inc.'s president J.H. Klewsaat. According to Mr. Stolk, this
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- New Waterways Rope By Columbian Rope page: 109
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on April 1985— L i t e r a t u r e Available A new line of towing and locking lines, identified as P/D 84 has been introduced by Columbian Rope, Guntown, Miss. Designed for the inland waterways system as a companion rope to Columbian's P/D 101 river rope, P/D 84 has the family characteristics to perform
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on April 1985Lars G. Larsson, presently managing director of Consafe AB of Gothenburg, has been named chief executive of MacGregor-Navire International effective June 15 this year. He will bring with him a lifetime of experience in the marine industries, both afloat and ashore. Beginning his seagoing car
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on April 1985Manville, Denver, Co., now has available their 1985 Worldwide Directory of Manville Products and Operations. This easy-to-use reference includes information on all Manville products, services, trade names, regional sales and customer service offices, producing locations, and a worldwide inde
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on April 1985Work on the construction of the 4,000-cubic-yard hopper dredge Ouachita, being built for Gulf Coast Trailing Company of New Orleans, La., continues to progress on schedule at Twin City Shipyard (TCS) in St. Paul, Minn. All steel work is 95 percent complete, and all major machinery— pumps, ge
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on April 1985Sonatech, Inc. of Goleta, Calif., recently introduced the Sonatech Expendable Doppler Penetrometer (EDP) system, designed to determine the undrained shear strength of ocean floor soils by measuring instantaneous velocity of a sound source probe as it falls through the water column and penetr
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on April 1985Robertson A/S Radio-Elektro of Egersund, Norway, has been acquired by Tritech International, the joint venture company of Perry Offshore, headquartered in Riviera Beach, Fla., and Bird Technology A/S of Bergen, Norway. Robertson, to be renamed Robertson Tritech A/S, is a leading producer of
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- Saab Purchases Salwico page: 101
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on April 1985The Saab-Scania Combitech, a major group of the Swedish company Saab-Scania A/B, has purchased the operations of Salwico, Inc. located in Hoboken, N.J. Saab will continue the same operations and services as formerly offered by Salwico. The newly formed division will be known as Saab Tank Con
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- Daewoo Names New Shipbuilding President page: 101
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on April 1985Woo-Choong Kim, chairman of the Daewoo Group, recently announced the appointment of Young-Suk Yoon as president of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd., a Daewoo Group member company. Mr. Yoon succeeds In-Kie Hong, who has been appointed president of Daewoo's planning and coordinat
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on April 1985— L i t e r a t u r e Available Saab Marine Electronics has developed a new version of its radarbased level-gauging system for tankers. The system is called Saab TankRadar, Model M, and incorporates all the reliable components of the original SUM-21, but with added capabilities to supply tem
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on April 1985The Norcontrol Division of A/S Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk in Norway is restructuring its U.S. operations. Effective immediately, Nav- Control, Inc. of Halesite, N.Y., has been appointed authorized agent for its navigation/instrumentation line of products. Nav-Control will also administer certai
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on April 1985The Vickdock system of submersible drydock for small craft originally catered to vessels of up to 300 tons displacement. Due to worldwide inquiries, the range of models with lifting capacities of 20, 30, 50, 100, and 300 tons has now been increased to include units of 500 and 1,000 tons lift
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on April 1985A study recently conducted by National Marine Service on a newly- developed upper cylinder lubricant, demonstrated a 10.8 percent reduction of fuel consumption at 850 rpm and a 13.7 percent fuel consumption reduction at 750 rpm. The test was on PowerLube 750, an upper cylinder lubricant prod
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on April 1985Woodward-Clyde Oceaneering has announced the promotions of Dr. Edward Owens to vice president and general manager and Dr. Thomas Whelan III to vice president and chief geochemist. Both Dr. Owens and Dr. Whelan will be located in the Houston office. Dr. Owens was previously manager of Europe
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on April 1985A stainless steel that wins the war against corrosion in the oilfields and another that fights wear at an affordable price are featured in two new product data bulletins on Nitronic 50 and 60 available from Armco's Specialty Steels Division. Nitronic 50 provides corrosion resistance and high