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Cryogenic Structures

Subsidiary Of Baltek

Expanding Facilities

A new 96,000-square-foot manu- facturing facility in Central Valley,

N.Y., is under construction by Bal- tek (NASDAQ-BTEK) Corpora- tion's subsidiary, Cryogenic Struc- tures Corporation, for the fabrica- tion of balsa wood insulation pan- els for liquefied natural gas tankers, it was announced by Jacques Kohn, president. Also under way is an addition to the Baltek plant in

Northvale, N.J., which will provide a 70-percent increase in manufac- turing capacity for the company's major product, Contourkore®. Both projects will be completed early in 1974.

Cryogenic Structures Corpora- tion has a $22,500,000 contract for delivery of insulation panels for three LNG tankers to be construc- ted by Newport News Shipbuilding

Company (a Tenneco company) for El Paso Natural Gas Company.

Shipment will be from natural gas wells in Algeria. The first insula- tion panels are to be delivered by

Baltek beginning next year. Baltek is also currently bidding on insula- tion contracts for several addition- al LNG tankers in Europe, the

United States and Japan. "The balsa wood insulation pa- nels to be fabricated at Central

Valley," Mr. Kohn said, " are for the huge tankers which transport liquefied natural gas at -260 de- grees Fahrenheit from abroad to storage and regasification in the

United States for utilization as badly needed fuel for home and industry. The new Cryogenic Struc- tures plant is probably the first fa- cility in the Northeast to be de- voted to manufactured products which can provide a big assist in our present energy crisis. "The expansion of the Northvale facility for Contourkore has been necessary," Mr. Kohn continued, "because of the rapid expansion of the market for this product. Rev- enues for Contourkore gained 50 percent in 1972, and another 35 per- cent increase is expected for 1973.

Contourkore is end-grain balsa, used as the core of a fiberglass la- minate, widely used in the con- struction of pleasure and commer- cial boats, chemical tanks, concrete forming, materials handling equip- ment and water and sewage plant components."

Sun Ship Appoints

Jon H. Matthews

Jon H. Matthews

Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock

Company, Chester, Pa., has ap- pointed Jon H. Matthews as chief, machinery technical.

In his new assignment, Mr. Mat- thews will 'be responsible for direct- ing all activities of the machinery technical department relating to new construction, conversion and repair. His department is responsi- ble for marine engineering, ship- board testing and mechanical equip- ment specification. Mr. Matthews reports to Eugene Schorsch, direc- tor of the Manufacturing Engineer- ing Division of the company.

Mr. Matthews joined Sun Ship in July 1967 in the hull technical department. He most recently serv- ed as project engineer for the ship- yard-built deep ocean mining ship

Hughes Glomar Explorer.

A native of Philadelphia, Mr.

Matthews graduated from Drexel

Institute of Technology in 1965 with a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering. In 1970, Mr. Matthews was awarded his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the

University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Matthews is a member of

The Society of Naval Architects

SHIP SALES DIVISION: • Tokyo Office: 4-1, Hamamatsu-cho 2-chome, (World Trade Center Bldg.) Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Telex J22672 and Marine Engineers and The * Overseas offices: LONDON, NEW YORK. HONG KONG, SYDNEY. American Society of Mechanical b^b^h Engineers.

Look for the Big-Big

Tankers

From Sakaide Works

Kawasaki Heavy Industries' Sakaide

Works is able to build or repair any type and any size vessel. The ship- yard's two building docks (No.1 and

No.3) stand in a row. Ships up to 350,000 DWT can be accommo- dated at the No.1 dock.

The No.3 dock facility will accom- modate ships up to 600,000 DWT.

The No.2 dock is used exclusively as a repair facility for ships up to 500,000 DWT.

In all, KHI's Sakaide Works deserves the world's spotlight as truly the most complete, most diversified shipyard. 26 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News