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Pieter Schelte, the world’s biggest the weight from 240-600 tons. It can welding automation system for the ship – 382m long and is currently run on MDO, HFO, crude oil or fuel Singapore yard’s production facili- under construction at Daewoo gas. ties. The contract is worth over €10

Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering million. Keppel FELS has success- (DSME) in Korea (See page 108 for Pemamek fully delivered almost half of the

Production separate story). Finnish-based Pemamek has a world’s newbuild jackup rigs and a

Revenue from offshore related 40-year track record of delivering third of the semisubmersibles in the work increased to about a third of advanced automation solutions to past decade.

Deltamarine’s total revenue last year, shipyards. Jukka Rantala, direc- Delivery to Singapore will consist with average total annual revenue tor, sales and marketing with the of an extensive fat panel line with running at about €25-30 million. company, acknowledges that “at the several highly advanced systems

Jaakkola sees the North Sea as the moment, offshore is the driving force and a supporting micro panel line. company’s main market, but it is also in shipbuilding. Traditional ship- They can be further upgraded with eyeing Brazil, because of the extreme building is pretty dead still in many roboticsto improve the productiv- depths, and West Africa because of places.” ity of the yard. Installation will be the massive size of the units. Pemamek has recently been performed while production contin-

Deltamarin recently developed selected by rig builder Keppel FELS ues. The Pema welding stations and a “plug and play” power module, to implement the latest in modern portals will use the latest welding which it is market- ing through partner

Caterpillar’s dealer network. It is being tendered on various projects, and Deltamarin hopes to secure it s frst contract very soon.

The module is based on Caterpillar’s CAT

CM-series engines. It is designed to meet the cri- teria for even the harsh- est environments, such as the North Sea, and for single lift installa- tion onto an FPSO deck.

It combines the reli- ability of CAT products with a state of the art packaging solution from

Deltamarin. The modu- lar design allows for the generator, or other equip- ment, to be removed (and installed) through a hole in the roof. The power rating ranges from 3800 to 17820 kWe and

Pemamek has recently been selected by rig builder Keppel FELS to implement the latest in modern welding automation system for the Singapore yard’s production facilities.

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