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Tradition and Innovation

ZOLLERN ZR-WINCH

ZOLLERN planetary gear units are used in hoist winches with single line capacities to 125 tons in : mobile crans, ship cranes and offshore cranes as well as many other types of materials handling equipment.

So you can see that ZOLLERN is always the right choice.

A powerful lifeboat/rescue boat winch for all conditions.

ZOLLERN have developed a winch specifically to meet the new regulations for lifeboat and recovery boat winches, drawn up by ,.Germanischer Lloyd" (GL).

ZOLLERN now has type approval and certification by

GL for use in a variety of applications: • Service boats • Lifeboats • Life rafts • FreeFall boats • Multipurpose cranes and davits for both suppl and rescue

ZOLLERN's unique free descent brake and novel centrifugal speed control for safe lowering in emergency situations is setting a standard for rescue and launching applications.

So you may use the ZOLLERN ZR WINCH in your applications for saving life at sea.

Werk Herbertingen

ZOLLERN Vertriebs-GmbH+Co.

Antriebstechnik

HeustraBe 1

D-88518 Herbertingen

Phone +49 7586-959-547

Fax +49 7586-959-575

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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Hempel Coatings Achieves

Quality Management System

Approval

Houston-based Hempel Coatings,

Inc. has successfully passed LRQA's

ISO 9001 audit and received a

Certificate of Approval. The compa- ny's Quality Management System is applicable to the design, manufac- ture and technical service of marine and industrial coatings.

Hornblower Makes Personnel

Changes

Tomas P. Johnson has joined

Hornblower's Marine Services as director of Business Development based in Boston. Gary Seabrook has transferred from sister company

Hornblower Dining Yachts to join

Hornblower Marine Services as director of Operations, and is cur- rently assigned as general manager of the Jacksonville operation for the

St. John's River Ferry Service. In addition, Capt. David Clark has been promoted to general manager of New London Operations, where he will oversee the operation of the new 48 knot fast passenger ferry

Sassacus, operating from New

London, Conn, to Manhattan.

Siemens Appoints Head Of

New Division

Ulrich Gerdemann has been appointed head of the newly formed

Infrastructure, Marine Engineering,

Testing Division (ATD IS) of the

Industrial Projects and Technical

Services Group (ATD) of Siemens

AG. Mr. Gerdemann began at

Siemens in 1970 as commissioning engineer for rolling mills. The range of products and services of ATD IS extends from marine electrical equipment and electric filters to turnkey diesel power plants, testing facilities, research laboratories and airport systems.

Western Shiprepair Yard

Appoints U.S. Agent

Geometric Marine Services has recently been appointed the exclu- sive U.S. agent for Western

Shiprepair Yard in Lithuania.

Offering three floating docks with lifting capacity up to 27,000 tons and extensive fabrication facilities, the shipyard employs more than 1,600 workers.

Boatracs Expands Executive

Team

Boatracs, Inc. has announced the appointment of Daniel W. Negroni to the newly created position of vice president, Business Development.

Mr. Negroni joins the company after two years with Seltzer Caplan

Wilkins & McMahon where he focused on business transactional law within the high technology industry. From 1993 to 1995, he held the position of vice president,

Sales and Marketing at Dearan

Imports, where he was responsible for increasing sales.

Femenia To Serve As Sname

President-Elect

Professor Jose Femenia has been elected to serve as the 1998 presi- dent-elect for The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME). Professor Femenia was elected to train under current

SNAME President David A. O'Neil and sit on the SNAME Executive

Committee and council during 1998; he will begin his two-year term as president in January of 1999.

Professor Femenia spent 31 years as a teacher and department head of marine engineering at SUNY

Maritime College. He has has been the Engineering Department Head at the U.S. Merchant Marine

Academy since 1995.

Chand Names President

Chris Bollinger has been named president of Chand Corp., a marine industry material wholesaler and integrated logistical support ser- vices provider and one of Bollinger

Shipyards, Inc.'s (BSI) eight sub- sidiaries. Mr. Bollinger is a vice president of BSI and a member of its board of directors. He will retain his current position as program manag- er for the Army Barge Derrick

Program for the next few months.

New Location For MAR

MAR, Inc. has moved its offices to

Lauderdale Marine Center, 2001 SW 20th Street, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33315. The company operates research vessels and designs all types of modifications for yachts, commercial and government vessels.

MAR also designs new construction workboats and yachts for various domestic and international clients. 79 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News