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Titan Awarded $20.1

Million Contract

The Titan Corporation has been awarded a five-year, $20.1 million contract to provide engineering and technical support services to the Naval Undersea Warfare

Center Division for combat weapon systems. These systems include the equipment that provides sub- marine and surface ships with the capability to detect, classify, track and evade neutral, friendly and hostile ships, and to defend itself and communicate with stations, aircraft and other ships, as well as to navigate within harbors and at sea.

Mustang Survival Wins

Rowan Contract

Mustang Survival Corp. has won a survival suit contract from

Rowan Industries; it is Mustang's second such contract for the off- shore oil industry.

The Ocean Commander

Immersion/Survival Suit features lightweight, reduced volume in- water performance.

TIVAR Formulations

TIVAR UV Resistant— Developed for the most stringent wear and exposure conditions. Has reduced impact and wear accelerated by POLY Hi SOUDUR (RB exposure to UV rays. Available in black and safety colors. w A MENASHA SUBSIDIARY m

Other TIVAR formulations and custom compounds are available.

TIVAIT DockGuard brings excellent wear capabilities for fender systems

TIVAR® is a registered trademark of Poly Hi Solidur, Inc.

Tires and wood deteriorate rapidly, metals rust, and inferior polys break. But seaports report that even after 10 years, TIVAR fender facings and wearstrips are top-notch performers — even in corrosive salt water, sunlight, or cold weather extremes.

The TIVAR DockGuard package offers you a systems approach for designing dock and fender systems: • TIVAR engineering plastic formulations that are specified for seaports around the world. • Custom manufacturing and fabricating capabilities. Get excellent quality, cost-effective material to your exacting specifica- tions from the world's leading

UHMW processor, Poly Hi Solidur.

Complete parts selection

Poly Hi Solidur offers OEMs and design engineers a broad package of TIVAR components for fendering systems, including half-round piling covers, fender facings, piling rub strips, custom extrusions, molds and fabrications, patented fastening systems and rubber backing material (supplied with fender systems).

Ideal material for marine fender systems

Docks, vessels and the environment are protected by the high performance TIVAR

UV Resistant formula.

TIVAR materials come in bright safety colors for better visibility.

Half-round piling covers. PHS now offers a complete components package for fendering systems.

Properties and features: • Low-friction, wear-resistant surface • Nil water absorption • Chemical- and corrosion-resistant • Chemically inert • Performs in weather extremes

Specialized fabricating center

Poly Hi Solidur has developed fabricating technologies to make fender system components to the most exacting specifications.

Extensive machining and proprietary welding capabilities are available.

Call Poly Hi Solidur 1-800-628-7264 for more information.

Astilleros Gets Tanker Order

Statoil has ordered a 125,000- dwt crude shuttle tanker from

Spain's Astilleros Espanoles SA bringing the number of tankers on order with the Spanish shipyard to five. Delivery of the latest unit, a 855,000-barrel capacity vessel, is set for fall 1999. This will increase the company's North Sea shuttle fleet to 21 ships.

Stolt-Nielsen To Acquire

Hamburger Lloyd's Barging

Stolt-Nielsen has announced that its subsidiary, Stolt-Nielsen

Inland Tanker Service B.V. (SNITS), has acquired the

European barging activities of

Hamburger Lloyd in Switzerland,

Germany, the Netherlands and

Belgium. The acquisition will increase the size of SNITS' fleet to 35 inland tankers.

Hamburger Lloyd is reportedly one of the largest operators of dou- ble-hulled chemical tankers in

Europe with 25 units, of which 11 have stainless steel tanks.

Westfalia Wins Five-Year

Navy Contract

Westfalia Separator, Inc. has won a three-year contract worth $6.8 million with a two-year con- tinuation option to supply modern automatic desludging purifiers for 27 U.S. Navy Spruance and Kidd class destroyers. This procure- ment is reportedly part of a class- wide modernization program designed to allow the destroyers to continue to operate well into the next century. The contract and project management will be han- dled from Westfalia Separator's

U.S. headquarters in New Jersey.

The initial three-year phase of the contract is valued at $6.8 million in equipment and support. Orders for eight fuel purification equip- ment systems have been released.

In addition, the Navy has optioned 18

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