Lips Offers New Brochure On Marine Propellers And Steerable Thrusters

Lips Thrusters B.V. of the Netherlands, one of the world's leading manufacturers of marine propellers, has published a full-color, 24-page brochure on marine propellers and steerable thrusters.

Since its founding in 1928, Lips has supplied over 45,000 fixed-pitch propellers, with sizes up to 11 meters diameter, and over 3,000 controllable- pitch propellers, for powers up to 48,000 kw, totaling in excess of 6,500,000 kw.

Of the latter, more than 300,000 kw is in transverse thrusters.

From its head office and main production facilities at Drunen in the Netherlands, Lips B.V. coordinates additional manufacturing plants, which it operates either as wholly owned subsidiaries or as joint ventures with local companies, in a number of important shipbuilding countries. In addition, the company maintains a worldwide network of agents and service/repair workshops.

The well-illustrated brochure contains descriptions of the thrusters offered by Lips, such as modular, can-mounted, containerized, retractable, and thrusters for underwater mounting. Also included is a discussion of technical features as well as other information.

For a free copy of the full-color, 24-page brochure from Lips, Circle 22 on Reader Service Card

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