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Thomas Opatz Named

VP Of Fabri-Valve,

A Dillingham Company

Thomas D. Opatz

Thomas D. Opatz has been ap- pointed vice president of Fabri-

Valve, a Dillingham company. The announcement was made by Bruce

Hobbs, president of the Portland,

Ore.-based firm.

Mr. Opatz's responsibilities will include marketing, engineering and purchasing for the manufacturing firm, which specializes in valves for industry. Prior to his appointment, he was in charge of marketing and the operations of the Western plants for Peerless Pump, a division of

FMC in Los Angeles, Calif.

A native of Glendale, Calif., Mr.

Opatz is a graduate of Oregon State

University and attended the Stan- ford Executive Program.

Container Operator

Names Two Executives

The appointment of Michael G.

Himoff as executive vice president of Maritime Container Lines Ltd., has been announced by Allen F.

Elia, president and chief executive officer. Also named was William L.

Kasper as vice president-sales, and as Eastern trade representative for the Port of Duluth. 'Maritime Container Lines, an in- dependent container operation, sup- plies a regular 10-day service in the

North Atlantic, with calls at Ant- werp, Bremen, New York, Ports- mouth, and Philadelphia.

American-Standard

Power And Controls

Group Names Three

Robert R. Trimble, Dean W.

Hart, and Micheal D. Queenan have been named district sales managers of the general sales force of the

American - Standard Power and

Controls 'Group, Dearborn, Mich., it has been announced by Ronald

L. Gaylord, field sales manager of the group.

Mr. Trimble will be in charge of sales activities for WABCO Fluid

Power products in the Detroit sales area. He was formerly a sales engi- neer for the J.N. Fauver Company,

Madison Heights, Mich. He is a native of Detroit and attended Ma- comib County Community College,

Warren, Mich.

Mr. Hart will manage the Los

Angeles sales area, which includes

Arizona and southern California.

He replaces Fred W. Guy, who was

November 1, 1973 31 recently appointed Western re- gional manager of the group's gen- eral sales force. Mr. Hart has served as a pneumatic and hydraulics spe- cialist for Rucker Products Com- pany and for Bellows-Valvair. He is a native of Long Beach, Calif., and a graduate of Long Beach

State University. He has a degree in business management.

Mr. Queenan will be responsible for the Cincinnati sales area. He was previously a territory manager for PABCO Fluid Power, a Cin- cinnati-lbased distributor. Prior to that, he was a product specialist for the Miller Fluid Power Company.

He is a native of Cincinnati, where he attended Xavier University. He has a degree in economics from

Thomas More College in the same city. "These men have the experience and expertise to make them emi- nently well qualified for their new positions," Mr. Gaylord said. The general sales force of the American-

Standard Power and Controls

Group, headquartered in Dearborn, is responsible for sales of the full line of hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders, valves and related devi- ces made by the company's WAB-

CO Fluid Division, Lexington, Ky.

It also handles sales of all models of standard and custom-design heat exchangers produced by the Amer- ican-Standard Heat Transfer Divi- sion, Buffalo, N.Y.

EDO announces a Heavy Weather Damage Avoid- ance and Guidance System — applicable to all types of vessels and of inestimable value to today's crit- ically laden container shipsand giant super-tankers.

The new system warns the ship's master of the probability of damage to the ship and its cargo, and provides maneuvering guidance,,. without radical departure from course and speed required to main- tain the ship's optimum schedule.

EDO's computerized system has a unique mem- ory bank which continuously samples inputs from sensors in critical load areas. It is an automated, practical means of detecting lateral bending.

Savings In time, money and lost or damaged cargo can easily repay the cost of the system in a single voyage.

For further information, phone or write EDO

Corporation, College Point, N.Y. 11356 USA.

Phone 212-445-6000. Telex 423094, Answer

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