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on April 1984FMC Corporation's Construction Equipment Group recently introduced two new Link-Belt" lattice boom crawler cranes, the LS-818 and LS-1018, and also unveiled an innovative design in heavy lift attachments. Termed the LS*-918HL, the heavy lift attachment for the existing LS-918 crawler crane i
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on April 1984Rig-A-Lite Company's new product catalog, "Specialists," describes representative products in the firm's broad line of lighting systems, fixtures, controls, and switchgear. The illustrated catalog presents a range of fluorescent, mercury vapor, high-pressure sodium, and incandescent fixtures
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on April 1984Stronger, more reliable wire rope assemblies are provided by a twopart liquid system for socketing wire rope. This pourable, resin socketing system provides elasticity at termination transition points to insure maximum resistance to shock loads. Actual results of dynamic test loads are incl
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on April 1984U.K.-based Elinca Ltd. of Sheffield recently won a major order to install its systems, which control marine fouling and corrosion in ships' seawater systems, on five VLCCs owned by Chevron Shipping Company. The tankers to be protected are the Howard W. Bell, C.W. Kitto, Chevron London, Burna
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on April 1984A general-purpose line of efficient end-suction pumps with capacities to 1,200 gpm is being offered by Worthington through its national network of independent distributors and direct-sales personnel. The cast iron pumps, designated as the D-800 line, are available in 19 sizes, frame-mounted
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on April 1984Louis J. Conti, chairman of the board of Marine Transport Lines, has announced a number of promotions in the operations and financial staffs of the company. Joseph G. Drescher has been appointed vice president-operations. He has been with the company for 14 years, and was previously fleet d
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on April 1984Capt. Arvid Lingaas has been appointed senior vice president for cruise operations for Holland America Line. The announcement was made by Kirk Lanterman, president and chief operating officer of the Seattle-based cruise and travel company. Captain Lingaas will be responsible for all technic
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on April 1984Sanders Associates, Inc., has been awarded a $10-million subcontract by Sperry Systems Management, Great Neck, N.Y., to provide Auxiliary Display Terminal (ADT) equipment for the U.S. Navy's Trident II navigation subsystem development program. ' The ADT's will provide the keyboard entry and
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on April 1984Magnetrol International, Inc. of Downers Grove, 111., a leading manufacturer of a broad range of level and flow control products and technologies, has available a free color brochure on its Modulevel EZ Series electronic level transmitters. These advanced two-wire instruments utilize Magnet
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on April 1984The Spring Meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers will be held May 17 at the Quality Inn Riverview in Covington, Ky. The theme of this meeting will be oriented to "Rivers," and the following papers will be presented: "Mane
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on April 1984Furuno-qualty color plotting is now available for the smaller vessel with the GD-200 color video plotter. Based on the company's well-proven, computerized plotter control system, the GD-200 uses a high-resolution, low-cost color monitor to display a visual readout of own ship's course and na
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on April 1984A new approach to non-polishing antifoulings—a product area many sources estimate accounts for at least 85 percent of the total world market for antifoulings—was announced recently by Hempel's Marine Paints A/S. Through half a century of research and development of traditional, non-polishin
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on April 1984WABCO Fluid Power of Lexington, Ky., a division of American Standard Inc., has announced an agreement with Tachyon Corporation of Minneapolis to develop jointly and to market worldwide an improved low-speed, high-torque fractional horsepower air motor. The new air motor, based on Tachyon's
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on April 1984Parkway Systems recently introduced several new features in its total buoyancy compensator (BC) system, the Ocean Jacket, providing divers with maximum comfort and performance. The inflator hose and O/P valve have been moved to the top of the shoulder for better access. Inflator and quick-d
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on April 1984The Hans W. Wynholds Company (HWW) of Cupertino, Calif., recently signed its third major maritime contract—a multi-year project with Maersk Line, Ltd. of New York—to provide computer hardware, software, documentation, training, and support for both shipboard and shoreside applications. The
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on April 1984The Heat Transfer Division of American Standard Inc. has appointed Bob McDonough as its new manager, product planning. Mr. McDonough comes to HTD with more than five years' experience in marketing capital equipment and eight years' experience as a chemical engineer. In his new position, Mr.
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on April 1984NKS is a joint venture of NAFINSA, the Mexican Development Bank, Kobe Steel, a leading Japanese steel producer, and SIDERMEX, the official steel consortium of Mexico. The erection of the casting, forging, and machine shop buildings, with the plant infrastructure, has been completed on schedule
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on April 1984Thomas L. Patterson has been promoted from vice president to president and general manager of Coastal Iron Works, Inc. of Corpus Christi, Texas. Youngest son of one of the company's founders and long-time presidents, Mr. Patterson joined Coastal in 1965, and was named secretary-treasurer in
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on April 1984Richard Faber has been promoted to marine/military sales manager in Aeroquip Corporation's Industrial Division marketing department, based in Jackson, Mich. Mr. Faber has more than nine years of Aeroquip sales experience. He was formerly an account executive in the Industrial Division's fa
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on April 1984Tokyo Marine Services Ltd., operator of eight oceangoing tugs and four 400-foot, semi-submersible barges, announces a status report on four major projects now under way or recently completed. The 12,000-bhp tug Dahlia has the semi-submersible rig Penrod 74 under tow en route from the Philip