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Team Of Industry Leaders

Creates Assault RIB

A project led by a company called

Team One has, with a group of marine industry leaders — Ameri- can Eagle Mfg., Caterpillar Inc., and North American Marine Jet — created the Team One GB36 Rigid

Inflatable Boat (RIB) assault craft.

American Eagle Mfg., Inc.,

LaConner, Wash., constructed the 37-ft. (11.3-m) RIB, with a 3/8-inch boat bottom and solid foam collar.

CHEM:PLEX Binds Asbestos'

Power To Harm

CHEM:PLEX Environmental

Products, Inc. of Neptune, N.J. mar- kets CHEM-.PLEX™, a substance which alters the size, weight and shape of asbestos fibers perma- nently. The action of CHEM:PLEX is equally effective regardless of the type of asbestos (chrysotile, amosite, etc.). CHEMrPLEX, under its pre- vious name Asbestite, was used in applications ranging from Madison

Square Garden to the USS Iowa.

Its effectiveness is largely tied to its chemical similarity to asbestos it- self, but it reacts with asbestos, chemically bonding and complexing the libers. For more information on

CHEM:PLEX,

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Caterpillar supplied the diesel engine, model 3176. These engines have electronically computerized control systems, reportedly provid- ing extremely efficient, lightweight 500-hp diesel engines.

North American Marine Jet, (NAM J) Inc. equipped the vessel with the Nomera 20 Jet propulsion unit, built to deliver cavitation-free thrust at speeds from 0 to 60 knots.

The craft is being tested by the

U.S. Navy and has potential for serv- ing many of their high-speed craft demands — and has attracted the interest of the Marines and the U.S.

Coast Guard, as well.

Other NAMJ work for the Navy includes completing the delivery of 51 14YJ units to the U.S. Navy; scheduled rebuilding of between six and ten 14YJ units by October; and five conversions of 20YJ units into

Nomera 20s. In addition, Western

Geophysical placed an order with

NAMJ for nine TRAKTOR jet units.

For more information on compa- nies involved with the craft, circle the appropriate number on the

Reader Service Card in this issue.

American Eagle Mfg 97

Caterpillar Diesel 98

North American Marine Jet 99

Owner: TIRRENIA di Navigazione, Napoli, Italy

Chockfast installation by FINCANTIERI, Genoa, Italy ww Philadelphia Resins

P.O. Box 309, Montgomeryville, PA 18936 • Telephone 215.855.8450 Fax 215.855.4688

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The above figures are taken from the IMA Associates report Five Year Outlook for U.S.

Shipbuilding. For more information about the report,

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INDUSTRY TRENDS by

James R. McCaul, President

IMA Associates, Inc.

Approximately 575 of the 1,590 crude carriers or OBO's now in service will be retired over the next five years — producing a major replacement opportunity for shipbuilders and ship system suppliers. < 80,000 80-120,000 120-220,000 >220,000 OBO's OBO's

DWT DWT DWT DWT <80,000 DWT >80,000 DWT

Source: IMA Associates, Five Year Outlook for U.S. Shipbuilding, 1994 400-i Retirements /

Ships

Remaining

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