Thordon Bearings has confirmed it has secured contracts to supply 24 TG100 propeller shaft seals to Drydocks World-Dubai and Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding and Repair yards for installation to six UAE Navy vessels. Each quad screw ship will operate a … [Read more...] about Seven-year-old workboat repair leads to 24-seal order
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Thordon Bearings appoints new Technical Director
Thordon Bearings has appointed Anthony Hamilton as its new Technical Director. Reporting directly to CEO Anna Galoni, Hamilton will lead the Burlington-headquartered company’s engineering, CAD, and New Product Development teams. “We are … [Read more...] about Thordon Bearings appoints new Technical Director
Transport Canada’s Ocean Protection Plan
Thordon Bearings has praised the government’s Innovative Solutions Canada initiative for encouraging more of the country’s entrepreneurs, innovators, and manufacturers to design solutions in support of Transport Canada’s Ocean Protection Plan. The … [Read more...] about Transport Canada’s Ocean Protection Plan
Thordon Bearings celebrates its 110th anniversary.
Navies, shipowners, shipyards, and organizations have offered the best of birthday wishes to Canada’s Thomson-Gordon Group, the parent company of water-lubricated polymer bearing pioneer Thordon Bearings, as it celebrates its 110th anniversary this … [Read more...] about Thordon Bearings celebrates its 110th anniversary.
Thordon Bearings and the Green Award Foundation’s Incentive Provider program
Thordon Bearings’ COMPAC open seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearing system is being offered to ship owners with a 5% rebate as part of the international Green Award Foundation’s Incentive Provider program. The rebate applies to those Green … [Read more...] about Thordon Bearings and the Green Award Foundation’s Incentive Provider program
Thordon Bearings praises Innovative Solutions Canada
Thordon Bearings has praised the Canadian government’s Innovative Solutions Canada initiative for encouraging more of the country’s entrepreneurs, innovators, and manufacturers to design solutions in support of Transport Canada’s Ocean Protection … [Read more...] about Thordon Bearings praises Innovative Solutions Canada
Rise in bearing retrofits to tourist ships
Thordon Bearings has registered an upswing in the number of historic passenger vessels operating on European waterways with water lubricated propeller shaft bearings as a way of further protecting those waterways from oil and grease … [Read more...] about Rise in bearing retrofits to tourist ships
Industrial pump bearings replaced with grease-free water-lubricated bearings
Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) is a step closer to replacing its industrial pump bearings with grease-free Thordon water-lubricated bearing solutions, following the installation of the Canadian company’s pioneering technology to … [Read more...] about Industrial pump bearings replaced with grease-free water-lubricated bearings
Heavy-duty elastomeric bearing materials from Thordon Bearings
Thordon’s heavy-duty elastomeric bearing materials have been keeping the Comeau Marine Railway operational under locally concentrated loads and in some of the harshest, abrasive waterways for more than forty years. Comeau Marine’s 600t-capacity … [Read more...] about Heavy-duty elastomeric bearing materials from Thordon Bearings
Seawater lubricated propeller shaft system from Thordon Bearings
The largest cruise ship to be built in Italy has been delivered with a COMPAC seawater lubricated propeller shaft system from Canada’s Thordon Bearings. The 170,400gt MSC Seashore, delivered from Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard late last month, … [Read more...] about Seawater lubricated propeller shaft system from Thordon Bearings
