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OPA 90 Provider Expands

Services

SMQI Services, Inc., a provider of OPA 90 services, and subsidiary of the Scandinavian Marine Claims

Office (SMCO), was scheduled to formally transfer its response ser- vices from Stamford, Conn., to Hous- ton, Texas, on the first of July. Sigve

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U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) experi- ence. SMCO Services, Inc. will re- main in Stamford, continuing to pro- vide federal, state andinteregulatory consulting and compliance services.

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Unitor Acquires GF Marine

Unitor AS has taken over all shares in GF Marine AS, at a price of $1.76 million. GF Marine AS is a supplier of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, automation and re- mote control systems for the ship- building industry. Unitor has pre- viously acquired the interests of

Ticon Isolering, and DanHVAC, and the takeover of GF Marine is in- tended to further contribute to the company's newbuilding strategy.

Unitor To Install Passenger

Cabins On New Cruise Ships

Unitor's new marine contractin division won contracts for turnke responsibility for the installation ( 900 pre-fabricated passenger cat ins (450 per ship) aboard two 74,00( grt vessels under construction z

Kvaerner Masa-Yards' Helsinl

New Shipyard for RCCL. The cor tract value is approximately $4 mi lion The company is currently ir volved in similar work on two CC ships,Imagination andInspiratior also being built at the Helsinki shif yard. Unitor is supplying 500 coir plete passenger cabins to eac 70,367-grt vessel.

For more information on Unitor AS

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American Pacific, Buckeye

Fire Produce Portable Halon

Fire Extinguishers

American Pacific Corp. and Buck eye Fire Equipment Co. have com pleted the successful testing of fou

Halotron I portable fire extinguishe models. Buckeye Fire Chairmai

Tomas J. Bower said, "Halotron is the first clean gas halon 121 replacement to complete the UL test ing process since the ban on th production of halon 1211 took effec in January, 1994." Buckeye Fir

Equipment Co., headquartered ii

King Mountain, N.C., manufacture a line of halon, dry chemical, am carbon dioxide portable fire extin guishers for the industrial market

American Pacific's subsidiary

Halotron, manufactures Halotroi

I, an EPA- and FAA-approved haloi 1211 replacement.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

SNAME and the Department of Naval Archi tecture and Marine Engineering, University c

Michigan, are sponsoring the symposium dubbe< "Small Craft Marine Engineering, Resistance an(

Propulsion Symposium," scheduled for May 15 17, 1996, at the Radisson Golf and Confereno

Center in Ypsilanti, Mich.

Conference organizers are currently seekinc papers for presentation, and authors are invited t< send abstracts for papers, preferable in the area of: • Advanced Engine Developments: High speec diesels, turbines • Propellers and Other Propulsors: Surfacinc props, water jets, hybrid drives • Alternative Drive Configurations: V-drives, Z drives • Planing Craft Resistance: Predictions, wavf effects • Load Predictions and Motions: Slam and plan ing, accelerations • Auxiliary systems: Fuel, water, power genera tion • Control systems: Steering, roll stabilizers, trinr tabs, rudder roll stabilizers, integrated systems.

Abstracts should be sent, by September 15, 1995, to: Professor Michael M. Bernitsas, chair,

Department of Naval Architecture and Marine

Engineering, University of Michigan, 2600 Drapei

Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109, tel: (313) 936- 0566; fax: (313) 936-8820; e-mail: [email protected]. power you can trust

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