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KOCKUMS DELIVERS FIRST OF TWO: With the tradi- tional ceremony marking the exchange of flags in Malmo harbor, Esso Petroleum Company Ltd. of London recently took over the Kockum-built 255,000-ton tanker Esso De- metia shown above. She is the first of two sister ships ordered by Esso London. The second ship will be delivered next month. The new tanker has the following approxi- mate measurements: length overall, 1,117 feet; breadth, 170 feet, and depth, 84 feet. The Kockum-Stal-Laval turbine engines, type AP 32, developing 32,000 shp at 85 rpm, provided a contracted speed of 15.9 knots.

Baldt Anchor And Chain Opens

Technical Center In Houston

Baldt Anchor and Chain has announced the opening of a Technical Center in Houston,

Texas. In making the announcement, A.S.

Marzo, chairman, emphasized that this is the first of a series of steps designed to provide better liaison with the offshore oil industry and shipyards in the Southwest.

The primary objective of this office is to pro- vide technical assistance to area customers while staying abreast of new requirements in the very dynamic offshore oil industry. The importance Baldt places on this office is further emphasized by the fact that it will be headed by C.D. Linnenbank, division president, who will relocate to the Houston area.

The Baldt Technical Center Office will be located at 4600 Post Oak Place Drive, Suite 359, Houston, Texas 77027.

Washington Iron Works

Promotes Joe Wilson

Joe Wilson, who joined Washington Iron

Works, Seattle, Wash., in 1971, has been pro- moted to chief engineer, Material Handling

Division, under L.S. Commora, vice president and general manager. Mr. Wilson was pre- viously supervisor of mechanical engineering for Washington cableways and cranes, includ- ing construction, shipyard and container han- dling types.

Philadelphia Resins

Occupies Second Plant

Philadelphia Resins Corporation has occupied a second 18,000-square-foot plant in the Mont- gomeryville Industrial Center, Montgomeryville,

Pa., more than doubling space for production of the company's line of vibration damping mate- rials, chocking compounds, glass-epoxy rope, coatings and adhesives for marine applications and general industry.

Since moving to Montgomeryville from Phila- delphia in 1968, the company has expanded mar- kets for its existing products, added new products, and established subsidiaries in England and

France, and affiliates in other European coun- tries, as well as in Japan, Australia, South Africa, and Latin America.

Plant No. 2 is being used for the manufacture of products originally developed for marine ap- plications which are now broadly used in in- dustry. These include damping products and a patented sprayable damping system for noise and vibration control, and Chockfast pourable chock- ing compounds for mounting and permanently aligning heavy equipment.

The damping products have been used by the

U.S. Navy for 10 years. The Chockfast system has been approved by all of the major classifi- cation societies whose regulations must be ad- hered to in order to have vessels insured. Chock- fast is now being used to replace metal chocks in heavy equipment installations throughout in- dustry.

The new plant is also being used for the pro- duction of specialty products such as non-skid coatings, tailshaft coatings, and adhesives.

David H. Kollock III, president, says that the company's future plans include manufacturing operations in Europe and the Far East. David

P. Kollock is vice president-operations.

Two 316,000-Dwt Tankers

Ordered From Setenave Yards

Contracts for construction of two oil tankers of 316,000 deadweight tons each have been com- pleted between the Setenave Shipyard Co. in

Portugal and the Panamanian-based Kaszone

Caribbean Corp. According to information re- ceived from Lisnave Shipyards, Inc., New York representative of the shipbuilders, the agreements were concluded earlier in June, with the delivery slated for the middle and end of 1977.

Setenave—more formally known as Estaleiros

Navais de Setubal, S.A.R.L.—is still being built for its role of constructing oceangoing vessels.

The report said that the first steel construction will be started in the beginning of 1974 and that the repair yard at the facility will start operations about one year later, in 1975.

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