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Catamaran Ferries And

ESAB Announce Partnership

CFI employees are shown welding the first hull module of a high-speed aluminum ferry with

ESAB welding equipment and filler metals.

Catamaran Ferries Intl. Inc. (CFI) has chosen ESAB Welding &

Cutting Products as its exclusive provider of welding equipment and filler metals in its venture to build high-speed aluminum ferries for the international fast terry mar- ket. As CFI begins consmL;tion of a 365-ft. (12yff\a^iifofc-hulled nor nrv> «-»-v»v* ton4- . 4-nTIvtT U i vuuuuiuxnus luiaynivJ-i. r iui XJ . V7 .

Ferries, tl* company will use a e—A— package cus- iom-T*H9fgnea for its needs.

Aorording to Jerry Uttrachi, vice president of Equipment

Marketing for ESAB, the welding solutions package includes 160 feeders and industrial inverter pulse Mig power sources manufac- tured in ESAB's Florence, S.C., facility. The package also includes four Mig tractor systems built and delivered from ESAB's factory in

Sweden.

For more information on ESAB

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Fincantieri Installs Automatic

Transport System

Specializing in handling heavy loads by means of air film technol- ogy, Solving has delivered a fully automatic transport system on air bearings to Fincantieri's

Monfalcone shipyard in Italy. The transport system, reportedly the first of its kind, is used for han- dling components and blocks between different *^M"kstations for fui : j.- .A: ll..

One p^t o\SaeV^Tem contains " *ilm trans- movement of pre- components up to 50 tons.—ine other part is integrated in a production line for prefabricat- ing ship blocks, and consists of air film pallets which lift the blocks and move them between different workstations along the line.

For more information on Solving

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February, 1997

Daewoo Offers Innovative

Hull Interface Software

Daewoo Heavy Industries Ltd.'s (DHI) Engineering & Technology

Division has developed what is reportedly the first interface soft- ware for hull and outfitting designs. DHI has reportedly over- come the difficulty of sharing design information between the two design ence in the

Hull enables all design information to be held in common and freely exchanged, while both design pro- cedures are simultaneously carried out. A completed 3-D hull model be transmitted directly to out- design. DHI has been the software to all vessels since July.

For more information from DHI

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I TH0RD0N BEARINGS I • ARE AVAILABLE B

THROUGH THESE

TH0RD0N

DISTRIBUTORS

Electro-Watt Utility Services, Inc. 51 Brightwood Circle

Danville, CALIFORNIA 94506-1913

Telephone: (510) 770-1653 Fax: (510) 770-1647

Pacific Marine & Industrial 18129 Chretien Court

San Diego, CALIFORNIA 92128-1264

Telephone: (619) 674-1214 Fax: (619) 674-1216

Coppedge Marine Inc. 4972 River Point Road, P.O. Box 5636

Jacksonville, FLORIDA 32207

Telephone: (904) 398-9586 Fax: (904) 398-0373

Maguire Bearing Co. 1919 Hau Street

Honolulu, HAWAII 96819

Telephone: (808) 847-3531 Fax: (808) 842-4889

Marine Industries Corp. 601 East Riverside Drive

Clarksville, INDIANA 47130

Telephone: (800) 733-3130 Fax: (812) 283-9628

Johnson Packings &

Industrial Products, Inc.

One Industrial Way, Unit 9

Portland, MAINE 04103

Telephone: (207) 797-9212 Fax: (207) 797-9158

Johnson Packings Is

Industrial Products, Inc. 21 Deer Park Drive, East Longmeadow

MASSACHUSETTS 01028

Telephone: (413) 733-7861 Fax: (413) 525-5520

Argo International 13477 SE Johnson Road

Milwaukie, OREGON 97222-1237

Telephone: (503) 794-9686 Fax: (503) 794-8336

Sealing Specialists & Service Company 969 William Flynn Hwy (Route 8)

Glenshaw, PENNSYLVANIA 15116

Telephone: (412) 487-8282 Fax: (412) 487-2826

Seal-Pro Technology Group 7205 Birchett Drive

Prince George, VIRGINIA 23875

Telephone/Fax: (804) 452-4809

Bates Unlimited & Associates, Inc. 1544 Sawdust Road, Suite 602

The Woodlands, TEXAS 77380

Telephone: (713) 367-4312 Fax: (713) 367-4326

Pacific Marine Equipment Inc. 3425 16th Avenue West

Seattle, WASHINGTON 98119

Telephone: (206) 281-9841 Fax: (206) 281-9843

Avalon Marine Ltd. 44 Coventry Lane

Dartmouth, NOVA SCOTIA B2V2K2

Telephone: (902) 456-1381 Fax: (902) 462-1004

P.D.L. Kenscott 9653 Clement Street

Lasalle, QUEBEC H8R 4B4

Telephone: (514) 364-0808 Fax: (514) 364-0454

Thordon Offices: 2106 Old Farm Road

Bakersfield, CALIFORNIA 93312

Telephone/Fax: (805) 589-7161 601 Cien Street, Suite 130D

Kemah, TEXAS 77565

Telephone: (281) 334-6118 Fax: (281) 538-1924

For International Distributors - Contact

Thordon Bearings Inc. 3225 Mainway

Burlington, ONTARIO L7M 1A6

Telephone: (905) 335-1440 Fax: (905) 335-4033

I MlpKOONj hiOudon Thordon Bearings Inc., 3225 Mainway, Burlington, Ontario L7M 1A6 Telephone (905) 335-1440 Fax (905) 335-4033

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Thordon SXL equipped APL container ship

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