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MMFG Announces Major

Changes For Duradek

Fiberglass Grating

Morrison Molded Fiber Glass

Company (MMFG) of Bristol, Va., recently announced that major changes in Duradek® fiberglass grating have recently been made to improve and upgrade the product and make it more readily available to the customer.

Over one million dollars' worth of the new product is now in stock and can be shipped within 48 hours to a customer anywhere in the country.

Duradek is manufactured by the

AFC Division of MMFG located in

Chatfield, Minn. The changes to

Duradek are described below.

A surfacing veil is standard on all

ARC gratings (including polyester grating). This enhances both corro- sion and UV resistance.

All Duradek gratings (including vinyl ester) are fire-retardant. This means they meet all the require- ments of Class 1 on ASTM E-84 and the self-extinguishing requirements of ASTM D-635.

All Duradek gratings will have a

Only specialists can build fou r floating drydocks within one year... ... 89 in a century. Floating docks have been on the pro- gramme of MAN GHH since 1878. Between April 1982 and

May 1983 we designed, built and supplied a 20,000-t and a 30,000-t dock for the U.S.A. as well as a 22,000-t and a 10,000-t dock for Saudi

Arabia. From June 1982 until

September 1983, two GHH floating docks were commis- sioned by our specialists at their final destination in the

U.S.A., another two in Saudi

Arabia, one in Indonesia, and one in Singapore.

Our dock construction yard is also fully equipped for build- ing floating cranes, such as the three 200-t units deliver- ed to Saudi Arabia in 1983.

For further information we shall be pleased to send you our brochures.

Convincing Technology

MAN GHH

P.O. B. 11 02 40

D-4200 Oberhausen 11

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

Phone: 2 08/692-0

Telex: 8 56 691 ghh d

MAN GHH CORP. 50 Broadway

New York, NY 10004 USA

Phone: (212) 509-4545

Telefax: (212) 269-2854

Telex: 42 12 74 MAN CORP

UV inhibitor added to the resin. UV coatings remain as an option to be used only when UV inhibitors are not considered adequate for the ap- plication. UV coating is still the best long-term solution to UV exposure.

Now the construction of Duradek more closely parallels the construc- tion of Extren fiberglass pultruded structural shapes.

All Duradek gratings have a new cross-rod spacing of 6 inches center of bearing bar to center of bearing bar. This makes the product more acceptable and gives a higher yield when complex field cutting is re- quired. Cross-rod spacing (12-inch) is also available with a reduction in price.

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Sigma Publishes Manual

On Pipeline Protection

Following the success of their re- cent miniaturized pocket-size illus- trated booklet on Protection and

Maintenance of Ferrous and Non- ferrous Metals, Sigma Coatings have now produced a similar book- let on Protection and Maintenance of Pipelines. Again, this is a read- able, illustrated manual of 280 pages which explains lucidly the problems and solutions applying not only to pipelines for natural gas, potable water, industrial and waste water, process water and chemicals, sea and fresh water, etc., but also, for example, to various shipboard pip- ing systems.

For free copies of this handy- sized manual on pipeline protec- tion,

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Shaw Joins Pacific Ship

As VP, Government

Relations And Marketing

David L. Bain, president and

CEO of Pacific Ship Repair & Fab- rication, Inc., San Diego, Calif., re- cently announced that Dennis R.

Shaw has joined the company as vice president, Government Rela- tions and Marketing.

Mr. Shaw held key senior execu- tive and political appointee posi- tions at the Department of Defense during the Reagan Administration.

He served on the staff of two Secre- taries of Defense, Casper Wein- berger and Frank Carlucci, as the principal Deputy Assistant Sec- retary of Defense (Reserve Affairs), acting Assistant Secretary of De- fense (Reserve Affairs), and as Spe- cial Assistant to the Assistant Secre- tary of Defense (Production & Log- istics). Mr. Shaw also was Deputy

Under Secretary of the Navy (Poli- cy) for Navy Secretary James H.

Webb Jr. Prior to leaving the

Navy, Secretary Webb nominated

Mr. Shaw to become General

Counsel of the Navy. 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

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