MACSEA Offers New Marine Solution for Measuring Hull Paint Performance

Ship owners, ship operators, and ship managers realize that hull fouling causes drag-related speed loss and increased fuel consumption when more power is delivered in order to maintain ship schedules. Hull fouling is also a topic of growing environmental concern and international regulation as it relates to green house gas emissions and the carriage... 

Teams Prepare for Round Two in the 2010-2011 Clean Energy Prize Competition

Ideas for new green-energy businesses ranging from a credit card bonus points program to fund renewable energy projects to a speed bump that generates electricity for roadside electronics will go head to head Jan. 21 in Round-2 competition for the 2010-2011 Clean Energy Prize. The competition, presented by DTE Energy and the University of Michigan... 

Exousia’s AEGEON Division Introduces Underwater Curing Epoxy Coatings

Exousia Advanced Materials, Inc., a leader in advanced coatings and industrial materials, announced through its wholly owned subsidiary, AEGEON Advanced Coatings, the introduction of its 9400 Series Underwater Curable Epoxy Coatings. These high-performance industrial coatings provide superior corrosion protection in underwater and high humidity locations.... 

ShawCor announces contract to provide pipe coating services for the Trinidad North East Offshore and Tobago Pipeline projects

ShawCor Ltd. announced its Bredero Shaw division has received a contract with a value in excess of $60 million to provide Concrete Weight Coatings and anode installation for the National Gas Company of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd’s North East Offshore (NEO) and Tobago Pipeline Projects. Bredero Shaw will mobilize two Compression Coat Technology... 

Arch Aluminum & Glass Improves Solar Mirrors for Renewable Energy Industry

Arch Aluminum and Glass Co., Inc. has developed innovative new mirror manufacturing techniques to meet the demand for lower cost and more efficient concentrator photovoltaic units in the burgeoning renewable energy industry. The Arch parabolic mirrors optically focus sunlight onto a concentrator containing active solar cell materials that convert the... 

Veeco Introduces High Throughput “FastFlex” Web Coating Platform For Production of Flexible Thin Film Solar Cells

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced the introduction of its FastFlex™ line of Web Coating Systems ideally suited for manufacturing CIGS solar cells (those using copper, indium, gallium and selenium). Veeco’s advanced FastFlex web deposition platform offers high throughput and excellent performance for flexible thin film solar cell production, contributing... 

Proserv Renames Recently Acquired Twachtman Snyder & Byrd and Circle Technical Services

Proserv Offshore LLC announced that Twachtman Snyder & Byrd (TSB) has changed its name to Proserv Decommissioning Contractors & Engineers Inc. and Proserv Abandonment Services, and Circle Technical Services has changed to Proserv Marine and Subsea Technology. All three represent business units within the Abandonment & Decommissioning...