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Hanson Joins Simrad

As Manager-Technical

Service Department

Dean Hanson

Dean Hanson has joined Sim- rad as manager of the technical service department. He brings to

Simrad 15 years of varied and intensive experience in the elec- tronic field. He has worked ex- tensively as a field engineer, a design engineer in marine elec- tronics, and as a marketing sales engineer.

Mr. Hanson has also served in the U.S. Navy as an electronics technician-radar specialist. He will visit Simrad dealers to hold equipment seminars, and develop higher levels of responsiveness to dealer and customer needs. Mr.

Hanson will be stationed in Sim- rad, Inc.'s main U.S. office in

Armonk, N.Y. He will also work closely with Simrad's branch of- fices in New Orleans, Houston,

Seattle, and San Diego.

Hoover Appointed Manager

Of General Electric's

Tidewater Service Shop

William F. Hoover has been named manager of the recently established Tidewater Service

Shop, Chesapeake, Va., for Gen- eral Electric's Apparatus Service

Division (ASD). The appointment was announced by Gerald S. Seay, manager of the division's Rich- mond Service Territory. Mr.

Hoover was previously sales en- gineer for GE's Richmond ASD shop.

In his new position, he is re- sponsible for service and sales to power plants, chemical manufac- turers, and the paper and marine industries in southeastern Vir- ginia and northeastern North

Carolina. Currently, the shop pro- vides mechanical repairs, with electrical and motor repairs scheduled for later in the year.

Neorion Yard Expands

Its Gritblasting And

Coating Facilities

Wesley D. Wheeler Associates of New York City has announced that Neorion Shipyards Syros

Ltd. and Peiniger GmbH have formed a joint venture company,

April 1, 1981

NEPECOR, to offer shipowners internal gritblasting and coating facilities at Neorion Shipyard, which is on the island of Syros,

Greece, a Mediterranean cross- roads near the Suez Canal and the Dardenelles.

Shipowners will now be able to utilize Neorion's ship repairing expertise combined with Pein- iger's extensive experience in the coating field. Resident manager of the new company is R. Simmel, who has wide coating experience with Peiniger.

Among the major equipment to be available at the shipyard are three Munkebo abrasive recovery units, four Munters dehumidi- fiers, and six ventilators. A bulk handling system for the grit is being installed, and sheds will be built to handle the gritblasting and coating of new steel, pipes, hatch covers, etc.

NEPECOR recently was award- ed two contracts each involving 40,000 square meters of internal blasting and coating for a major

U.S.-based oil company. The

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