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COMPANY & PEOPLE NEWS

Repair Agents Visit Panamanian Yard

A diverse group of international ship repair agents recently convened in Balboa, Panama, to visit the facilities of Astilleros Braswell. In the photograph are (left to right): Pericles Koukis,

Hellenic Marine Agencies; John Weldon, Geometric Marine Services; Jannick Eberhardt,

Eberhardt Agencies & Shipping; Hans-Joachim Lempke, Peter Gast Shipping; and Nigel

Smith, Marine Marketing International. acquired by Northop Grumman.

BV Names Veristar Product

Manager

Stefan Recher has been appointed product manager for

Veristar, the computer-based ship design and lifetime ship structure management system offered by classification society Bureau

Veritas (BV). He was previously employed as a senior develop- ment engineer within the soci- ety's marine division.

Ulstein Hires Marketing

Manager

Iren Bendvold has joined the

Ulstein Group as Marketing man- ager. She will also serve as edito- rial director for the company's in- house magazine. Notable among her company's projects, Ulstein's

UT700 designs are currently making an impression in the off- shore support vessel sector.

Alfa Laval Launches New

Generation Of Separators

At SMM '96

Swedish marine supplier Alfa

Laval launched its ALCAP Mk 2 marine separator for fuel and lube oil cleaning at SMM '96. By utilizing advanced fluid dynamics to design a new type of disc stack and incorporating other new tech- nical features, the company said it has improved separation per- formance and increased through- put capacities by up to 20 percent.

Separators in the ALCAP Mk 2 series have a modern bowl design, a new disc stack including opti- mized caulk/slot geometry and optimized caulk/disc thickness, and a redesigned distributor.

For more information on Alfa Laval

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