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PROPULSION UPDATE

OMR's New Assembly Plant Inaugurated by Graeme MacLennan, International Editor

The first stage of what will be the most up-to-date large engine as- sembly and testing facility in Eu- rope, and probably the world, was inaugurated at a ceremony in

Warnemunde, Mecklenburg-

Vorpommern, on the Baltic Coast of

Germany. The high point of the occasion was a demonstration run of a Dieselmotorenwerk Rostock (DMR)-Sulzer 6RTA62U engine, supported by an elaborate outfit of auxiliary pumps, etc. and measur- ing equipment. This was achieved only 13 months after commencing to build the facility on a "green fields" site.

DMR was established in 1947 in premises to the west of the Hansa city of Rostock to build medium- speed four-stroke engines. In 1958 a license was acquired from MAN to build two-stroke loop-scavenging engines for supply to the neighbor- ing shipyards on the Baltic coast of the former German Democratic Re- public. Later a Sulzer engine license was obtained and six 7RND90 en- gines were built in 1973/75; MAN engines continued to be built up to 1991, but from 1987 onwards, Sulzer

RTA engines have been the princi- pal delivery, exclusively after 1991.

The inland situation of the works has made it necessary to break the engines down, after testing, into sec- tions which could be transported by road.

DMR has been, since 1992, amem- ber of the Vulkan Group, centered on the Bremer Vulkan shipyard at

Vegesack, and one of Germany's most important heavy engineering con- cerns. They are co-proprietors, with the GMT diesel engine division of

Fincantieri, of New Sulzer Diesel.

The new assembly hall has been built on a riverside site at

Warnemunde, immediately adjacent to where the Kvaerner Group, with substantial financial assistance from the German government's Treu- handanstalt privatization agency, are engaged in a three-year pro- gram to make the Warnowwerft one of the most modern, competitive and flexible shipyards in the world.

The hall is 680 feet (207 m) long, 105 feet (32 m) wide and 88 feet (27 m) high, with crane tracks at two levels; the lower one having three 20-ton gantry cranes and the upper one two gantries, each with two 160-ton hooks: together they can lift 580 tons. There is ample height below the cranes for building the largest engines.

Almost half the length on the

North side of the hall is taken up by two strongly-supported floor-level platforms on which four or five en- gines, according to length, can be erected simultaneously. Sub-assem- bly takes place on the south side of the hall, and a bogie track extends right through and out on to the quay. The procedure is to lay down the engine bedplate upon a fabri- cated stool in the assembly and test area, to insert the crankshaft and continue building up, using the larg- est possible sub-sections. The en- gine is tested against a large Zollner hydrodynamic brake and then lifted, complete with its stool on to the 56- wheel bogie which is run out to the quay, where a specially-designed jib crane will lift it directly into a newbuilding brought alongside the quay from a nearby shipyard or on to a lighter for shipment elsewhere.

This assumes that the destination shipyard has craneage able to lift the complete engine. Only in the case of the larger engines will it be necessary to break the engine down into smaller sections.

For the present, the components are still manufactured in the fac- tory at Rostock, but the plans indi- cate that large-capacity machine tools, vertical boring mill and planer, are to be installed at the shoreward end of the hall. A second bay will accommodate the machine tools for manufacture of smaller components and other DMR products, including reduction gears.

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