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Crane Consolidates

Two Business Units

To Form Crane Midwest

Crane Company, Defense and

Specialty Systems Group, St. Louis,

Mo., recently announced the consol- idation of two of its business units,

Crane Midwest Fittings and Unidy- namics/Midwest, to form Crane

Midwest.

Crane Midwest will continue to maintain the product lines of both business units and will position it- self to continue to serve the oil and gas, power generation and ship- building industries.

Crane Midwest Fittings is the leading producer of special buttweld fittings and fabrications in carbon- steel, intermediate alloys, low tem- perature, hi-yield, stainless and in- conel. Crane has been a major sup- plier of critical welding fittings for the U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion

Program. Crane fittings, produced under highly specialized manufac- turing and quality assurance pro- grams, are supplied for oil and gas transmission lines and high pressure power generating stations.

Unidynamics/Midwest designs and produces engineered systems and components for military and commercial markets. This unit is a

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Unitor Ships Service

Acquires Gamlen Marine

Norwegian-based Unitor Ships

Service AS recently acquired the

Gamlen Marine Chemicals activity of Sybron Chemicals Inc., Birming- ham, N.J.

Gamlen Marine Chemicals, one of

Unitor's competitors, has a world- wide network for distribution and sale of marine chemicals and ser- vices. Gamlen Marine is one of the leading suppliers in this field and has gained special recognition for its cleaning and maintenance chemi- cals.

The purchase of Gamlen Marine is a strategic investment for Unitor.

It means a major strengthening of

Unitor's competitiveness through an expanded product range, im- proved product availability and a major reinforcement of expertise within the chemical sector—both at headquarters and in the sales net- work. The acquisition is expected to contribute to further improvement of Unitor's results during 1988.

Unitor already possesses a strong marine chemical activity through its

Perolin Marine operation. Together with Gamlen Marine, this operation will now be integrated into Unitor

Marine Chemicals as a separate di- vision. Its headquarters will contin- ue to be located at Rickmansworth outside London. The product lines of both Perolin and Gamlen Marine will be integrated into one common line containing the best products from both ranges.

For additional information and free literature on Unitor,

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Verdon To Head New

U.S. Shipowners Group

William P. Verdon has been named the new president of the

United Shipowners of America (USA), a newly formed group of

U.S. shipowners which will press for legislative and regulatory changes that will strengthen the U.S. mer- chant marine.

In his new position, Mr. Verdon, former vice president and general counsel for U.S. Lines, will serve as full-time chief executive officer of

USA, and will spearhead the Wash- ington, D.C.-based group's efforts to develop and advocate constructive legislation and regulations on behalf of its members.

USA's membership includes

American President Lines, Crowley

Maritime Corp., Farrell Lines,

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. and Sea-

Land Service.

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