1985 Articles
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on May 15, 1985Jack Edwards, president of Halter Marine, has announced the receipt of a contract from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command for the construction of six ocean surveillance ships (T-AGOS). Total contract value, including options, is said to be in excess of $85 million. The T-AGOS vessels, which
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on May 15, 1985Harris Corporation, RF Communications Group, Long Range Radio Division, has announced the availability of a new brochure on radio products for the marine industry. The six-page, full-color brochure describes Harris's full range of HFSSB radio products and accessories. The radio communication
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on May 15, 1985—Literature Available John R. Martin, president of Paceco, Inc. of Gulfport, Miss., has announced the receipt of an order for a new Paceco Portainer® crane from the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport. The ship-toshore, container-handling gantry will be capable of loading or unloadi
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on May 15, 1985—Literature Available Infrasonik AB of Finspong, Sweden, is offering literature on a new boiler cleaning technique that offers savings for vessel owners. The eight-page color brochure, entitled "Infrafone—the new approach to boiler cleaning," explains that the technique is based on maintaini
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on May 15, 1985Products Research & Chemical Corporation (PRC) recently announced the availability of a new family of mercaptan functional polymers called Permapol P-3. The mercaptan-terminated Permapol polymers were introduced to complement the hydroxy materials offered by the company. According to Herbert
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on May 15, 1985The cantilever type jackup drilling rig Sugar Ratna, ordered by the Oil & Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) of India, was completed recently at the Osaka Works (Sakai) of Hitachi Zosen Corporation. Immediately following delivery, the rig left under tow for India, where it will begin drilling offsh
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on May 15, 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 X-inch to 36-inch I.D., without rotating the pipe. Used in conjunction with
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on May 15, 1985Bellows seals have long been essential to sealing integrity in a wide range of industrial rotary shaft applications. Elastomer, metal and TFE bellows seals are universally accepted for the performance, safety and cost effectiveness they offer. John Crane-Houdaille Inc. of Morton Grove, 111.
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on May 15, 1985Flakt AB, Marine Division of Gothenburg, Sweden, has published a new 20-page color brochure on the company and its facilities and capabilities as a leader in the field of air treatment and climate control. Entitled "A chain can be no stronger than its weakest link," the preface points out th
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on May 15, 1985—Literature Available After a year of intensive development, Skantek Corporation, Warren, N.J. has announced the SK- 401, the first commercially available optical character recognition (OCR) software to decipher and reproduce hand-lettered characters on engineering drawings. The first step
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on May 15, 1985The Transportation Chemicals Group of Nalco Chemical Company, Oak Brook, 111., has announced their new diesel fuel additive, FIREPREP 2012. It is designed to control bacteria and fungi in marine diesel fuel storage tanks and also helps disperse existing sludge and controls formation of new s
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on May 15, 1985The Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, in a recent joint meeting with the Long Beach-Greater Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers aboard the SS Princess Louise I, heard two presentations. The first was entitled
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on May 15, 1985A main key to maneuverability in new ships is the special thrusters that enable her to keep on precise course or station and to "creep" at very low speeds, and demand for one such system, the Elliott White Gill™ thrust and propulsion unit, is said to be increasing because of its simplicity,
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on May 15, 1985Lucian Q. Moffitt, Inc., a subsidiary of BFGoodrich, has named Guy Tompkins as a manufacturer's representative for BFGoodrich Cutless® brand bearings. He will cover the commercial marine industry in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Mr. Tompkins' marine products group
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on May 15, 1985Cambridge Instruments recently announced the completion of a new 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Monsey, N.Y. The new facility, in addition to the present 250,000-square-foot structure, will house all manufacturing, quality control, shipping/ receiving and storage facili
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on May 15, 1985The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, in conjunction with the National Shipbuilding Research Program is proud to present a new quarterly, the Journal of Ship Production. The first issue was published in February 1985. The Journal will be dedicated to presenting the latest and
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on May 15, 1985American President Lines of Oakland, Calif., has announced the appointment of W.B. Hubbard to the newly created posit ion of senior vice president-operations strategy. Succeeding him as senior vice president- operations is Lorenz P. Robinson, who joined APL in 1979 and has served as vice pre
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on May 15, 1985Clemco Industries, San Francisco, Calif., manufactures "Educt-OMatic," a lightweight, portable abrasive blasting tool with an integral abrasive recovery system. Weighing only seven pounds, this hand-held tool vacuums and recycles abrasive during the blasting process. It has a swivel blast h
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on May 15, 1985Olof I. Lundberg has been reappointed for a second six-year term as director general of the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT), headquartered in London. He has been director general of INMARSAT since its creation in 1979. Prior to joining the Organization he was with t
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on May 15, 1985Marcel P. Joseph has been elected executive vice president of Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT), Washington, D.C. He will report to COMSAT president Irving Goldstein, and will be responsible for the management and operations of all of COMSAT's business units. Mr. Joseph comes to