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Cummins Engine

Company Earns 50th

Anniversary Recognition

Peter Hamilton, vice president and chief financial officer, and James

Durham, vice president-government business at Cummins Engine Company

Inc., recently received a copy of an inser- tion in "The Congressional Record" from

U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-

Ind.). The honor was presented in recog- nition of Cummins' 50th anniversary of distinguished service to the military.

Peter Hamilton (left) and James Durham (right) receive a copy of an insertion in "The Congressional

Record' from U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar.

The award was presented to the

Columbus, Ind.-based company dur- ing a ceremony at the Association of the U.S. Army Show in Washington,

D.C. Cummins' military service be- gan in 1942 with the order of5,000 H- 160 engines for the "Red Ball Ex- press," a contingent of troops led by

Gen. George Patton after the inva- sion of Normandy.

Two Record-Size Hayward

Self-Cleaning Strainers

Sent To LNG Plant

Two new automatic, self-cleaning strainers from Hayward Industrial

Products, Elizabeth, N.J., will soon join three other strainers already installed at a liquid natural gas (LNG) plant in Indonesia.

Each strainer, reportedly among the world's largest, is capable of han- dling 85,000 gpm. They are made entirely of 316 stainless steel and are fitted with 60 mesh Durawedge"

Screens.

The 25,000-lbs. units are designed to strain seawater from a shallow coral reef inlet to supply cooling wa- ter for condensers, compressors and other plant equipment.

In the Strain-O-Matic cleaning process a small portion of the flow is used to backwash the screen periodi- cally in an automatic clean and purge cycle, eliminating the need to inter- rupt the system flow to clean and/or change filter elements.

For additional information about

Hayward's Strain-O-Matic line,

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New Oil Recovery System

From Seawax Company

An innovative solution to recover- ing spilled oil from coastlines and sea- water using hydrocarbon waxhasbeen introduced by the Simi Valley, Calif. - based Seawax Company, founded by the spill recovery system's inventors and patent holders, John Bartha, Van

Nuys, Calif., and Gyorgy Csapo,

Boszormenyi U., Hungary.

According to the company's techni- cal report, the new method employs hydrocarbon wax, preferably paraf- fin, as the cleaning agent for petro- leum oil spills. Molten wax is sprayed onto an oil-covered surface entraining large volumes of hydrocarbon oil in the wax. After approximately 15 to 20 seconds the wax solidifies and can be removed with skimmers or scrapers.

The resultant mixture of solidified wax and oil is approximately 40 percent wax and 60 percent oil, dirt, etc.

After removal, the mixture is then heated in a remelter pot where the wax is decanted from the oil and re- used in molten form again. The re- covered oil can be used as fuel for the wax melting step.

The wax is non-reactive chemically or biologically, therefore posing no danger to marine life.

For additional information on the

Seawax oil recovery system,

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OPA90 Liability Coverage

Could Be Available Soon

NCC BankAssure, a Lloyd's insur- ance brokerage firm, is about to launch a new insurance product that would provide the U.S. Coast Guard with the financial guarantees for oil pollu- tion liabilities that the protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs are unable to furnish.

A major U.S. insurance group would underwrite the new product, which would bridge the gap between the Coast

Guard's draft regulations in the Oil

Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90), and the coverage that the P&I clubs are willing to offer. Under OPA 90, shipowners who wish to continue U.S. trading will have to provide financial guar- antees, set at $1,500 per gross ton of their largest vessel, before they can receive their required Certificate of

Financial Responsibility. This will equate to $100 million for the larg- est tanker in the U.S. trade and the

P&I clubs are refusing to issue such guarantees.

The potential market for the cov- erage has increased as hopes that the Coast Guard might soften its position were dashed by the elec- tion victory of President-elect Bill

Clinton and his environmentalist

Vice President-elect A1 Gore.

Tankers Begin Installing

Emergency Oil Spill Kits

Absorption Corp., Bellingham,

Wash., announced that it has received its first order from the maritime ship- ping industry for its shipboard Emer- gency Response Spill Kit, a new prod- uct designed to enable oil tankers to comply with the requirements of the

U.S. OH Pollution Act of 1990.

In a simultaneous announce- ment, Naess Shipping (Holland) B.V. confirmed that it has ordered Ab- sorption Corp.'s spill kits for 16 of the vessels under its management.

Absorption Corp. is a wholly- owned subsidiary of International

Absorbents Inc., of Vancouver, B.C.

Naess Shipping provides technical ship management services for an international fleet comprising in ex- cess of 20 vessels. A majority of the tankers, for which the kits have been ordered, belong to the

PetroBulk Group, one of the world's largest operators of refined prod- ucts and chemical tankers.

The spill kits include containment booms and absorbent pillows which utilize Absorption Corp.'s patented natural wood fiber cellulose mate- rial marketed under the name "Ab- sorbent W." The company reports that Absorbent W is a unique sor- bent which separates oil from water on contact, absorbs and retains up to seven times its weight, offers non- toxic organics, is entirely biodegrad- able and is safely burnable, produc- ing a usable BTU value while yield- ing minimal ash.

For complete information on the emergency spill response kits offered by Absorbent Corp.

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First New 'K' Line

Jumbo Containership

Enters Service

The first of five fast "king-size" container vessels, the Brooklyn

Bridge, recently entered "K" Line's transpacific service. The new 3,500- teu vessel was delivered to the ship- ping line on December 3,1992. The containership sailed from Tokyo on

December 10th, bound for Long

Beach, Calif., to begin its maiden voyage across the Pacific.

The Brooklyn Bridge will replace the Rainbow Bridge in "K" Line's scheduled liner service between the

U.S. West Coast and Asia.

All five of "K" Line's new con- tainer vessels are scheduled to en- ter service by July 1993. The phas- ing in of these new ships will give "K" Line greatly increased capacity in the growing Pacific trade.

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