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OPA 90 Provider Expands Services SMQI Services, Inc., a provider of OPA 90 services, and subsidiary of the Scandinavian Marine Claims Office (SMCO), was scheduled to formally transfer its response ser- vices from Stamford, Conn., to Hous- ton, Texas, on the first of July. Sigve Bru will lead SMQI's Texas opera- tion, acting as the primary Quali- • COMMERCIAL MARINE & NAVAL SHIPBOARD • OZONE SAFE REFRIGERANT • EIGHTY MODELS TO CHOOSE FROM III \ COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATOR UM AND/OR FREEZER SC42 MODEL: N TYPE I, STYI NSN: 4110-i fied Individual for OPA 90 and MARPOL clients. The Houston team will be comprised of employees with backgrounds in emergency response management, ship handling, marine engineering, naval architecture, and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) experi- ence. SMCO Services, Inc. will re- main in Stamford, continuing to pro- vide federal, state andinteregulatory consulting and compliance services. For more information on SMCO Circle 84 on Reader Service Card -15-HT-B 1, SIZE 15 •379-7754 Unitor Acquires GF Marine Unitor AS has taken over all shares in GF Marine AS, at a price of $1.76 million. GF Marine AS is a supplier of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, automation and re- mote control systems for the ship- building industry. Unitor has pre- viously acquired the interests of Ticon Isolering, and DanHVAC, and the takeover of GF Marine is in- tended to further contribute to the company's newbuilding strategy. Unitor To Install Passenger Cabins On New Cruise Ships Unitor's new marine contractin division won contracts for turnke responsibility for the installation ( 900 pre-fabricated passenger cat ins (450 per ship) aboard two 74,00( grt vessels under construction z Kvaerner Masa-Yards' Helsinl New Shipyard for RCCL. The cor tract value is approximately $4 mi lion The company is currently ir volved in similar work on two CC ships,Imagination andInspiratior also being built at the Helsinki shif yard. Unitor is supplying 500 coir plete passenger cabins to eac 70,367-grt vessel. For more information on Unitor AS Circle 94 on Reader Service Card American Pacific, Buckeye Fire Produce Portable Halon Fire Extinguishers American Pacific Corp. and Buck eye Fire Equipment Co. have com pleted the successful testing of fou Halotron I portable fire extinguishe models. Buckeye Fire Chairmai Tomas J. Bower said, "Halotron is the first clean gas halon 121 replacement to complete the UL test ing process since the ban on th production of halon 1211 took effec in January, 1994." Buckeye Fir Equipment Co., headquartered ii King Mountain, N.C., manufacture a line of halon, dry chemical, am carbon dioxide portable fire extin guishers for the industrial market American Pacific's subsidiary Halotron, manufactures Halotroi I, an EPA- and FAA-approved haloi 1211 replacement. For more information Circle 85 on Reader Service Card CALL FOR PAPERS SNAME and the Department of Naval Archi tecture and Marine Engineering, University c Michigan, are sponsoring the symposium dubbe< "Small Craft Marine Engineering, Resistance an( Propulsion Symposium," scheduled for May 15 17, 1996, at the Radisson Golf and Confereno Center in Ypsilanti, Mich. Conference organizers are currently seekinc papers for presentation, and authors are invited t< send abstracts for papers, preferable in the area of: • Advanced Engine Developments: High speec diesels, turbines • Propellers and Other Propulsors: Surfacinc props, water jets, hybrid drives • Alternative Drive Configurations: V-drives, Z drives • Planing Craft Resistance: Predictions, wavf effects • Load Predictions and Motions: Slam and plan ing, accelerations • Auxiliary systems: Fuel, water, power genera tion • Control systems: Steering, roll stabilizers, trinr tabs, rudder roll stabilizers, integrated systems. Abstracts should be sent, by September 15, 1995, to: Professor Michael M. Bernitsas, chair, Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, 2600 Drapei Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109, tel: (313) 936- 0566; fax: (313) 936-8820; e-mail: michael.bernitsas@um.cc.umich.edu. power you can trust For further information please contact: ZF Industries Inc. 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