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Kraken to Provide MCM Solutions for Denmark's SHD

. said it signed a cooperation agreement with SH Defence (SHD) of Denmark covering the design and sale of containerized mine countermeasure and other subsea surveillance sensor and robotic solutions.SHD is an international company developing, producing and servicing hydraulic, electric and mechanical system solutions, including containerized multi-mission module systems for the worldwide naval industry. SHD manufactures The Cube, a next generation evolution of StanFlex containers.The benefits of such containerized modules are numerous and include:Unused modules can be stored in controlled conditions, reducing

Bjørn Joensen and Erik J. Aalbæk   (Photo: MacArtney)

MacArtney Strengthens Offshore Renewable Energy Sector

Providers.Leaving ZITON Contractors A/S as Technical Director, Aalbæk will join MacArtney as the Sales Manager for Offshore Wind. As Sales Manager, Aalbæk will ensure our customers benefit from MacArtney’s innovative technology and expert engineering skills to develop customized system solutions

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MacArtney Expands Into Italian Market

a strategic local presence in key markets. With a renewed focus on expanding their global footprint, MacArtney Underwater Technology will be offering their system solution technology and expertise to the Italian underwater technology markets, providing customers with sales and support of products, system solutions, access to rapid response enquiries and mobilization of service. The new operation intends to answer a market need and provide a better service to Italian customers.Dropping anchor with a new office in Bologna, MacArtney will be geographically well-positioned to service Italian underwater technology

“We are moving autonomous technologies into vehicles that have always been "remotely operated" or even manned to realize more efficiency and capability.  We are really blurring the lines between "ROV" and "AUV" and minimizing the technical difference between manned and unmanned. ”
Ben Kinnaman, CEO, Greensea Systems, Inc."

Subsea: The Future of Unmanned Vehicles

Electronics since when I have held various technical and management posts and am now Director of Sales and Marketing.”On the ROV side, Bates said “operational cost effectiveness and safety are by far the key market drivers.  To achieve this, markets are looking for the best possible system solutions at the lowest possible real cost by seeking UUV systems that satisfy four central tenets: safety; vehicle capability; reliability; and the use of smart technologies.Blue Robotics’ is disruptor in the ROV space, its mission to make low-cost, high-quality components and vehicles to make

Andrew Clayson, managing director of Flintstone (Photo: Flintstone Technology Ltd)

Flintstone Sets Its Sights on Floating Wind

Flintstone Technology Ltd said it plans to diversify its mooring operations to help drive down costs for the offshore floating wind industry.The company has developed a set of mooring system solutions to match specific project requirements in oil and gas and marine renewable energy.With decades of experience in the oil and gas industry, this knowledge combined with the mooring solutions, is transferable and provides substantial benefits to offshore floating wind in lowering costs and increasing reliability.According to Scottish Enterprise, Europe is forecast to build around 25GW of offshore wind

WHOI Installs Hyperbaric Pressure System

provide vital test capability to WHOI and to the Marine Robotics Sector within the Commonwealth of Massachussets,” said Carl Kaiser, Program Manager at WHOI.    “It has been great working with WHOI on this project, and we hope to continue the collaboration in the future.Our system solutions differ in both complexity and pricing, with this one categorized more towards the complex category. With a 20 000psi system and no welds, the system is uniquely resistant to dynamic pressue waves, which increases fatigue life and also resistance to particular events such as implosion.It basically

Aquabotix updated dealer/distributor map (Photo: Aquabotix)

Aquabotix Adds Global Distributors

in Australia and New Zealand. Based in Salisbury, Queensland Australia, Seismic Asia Pacific is a leading provider of hydrographic, oceanographic and geophysical systems within Australia and throughout southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim. The company also provides hardware and software equipment and system solutions to local government, defense and resource specific sectors.     Hydro Systems Development, Inc., Tokyo branch, which will represent Aquabotix in Japan. Hydro Systems Development, a developer of underwater sensing systems for both the marine and in-land water sectors

Bosch Rexroth Joins DeepSea Mining Alliance

drive and control technology from Bosch Rexroth moves machines and systems of any size. The company bundles global application experience in the market segments of Mobile Applications, Machinery Applications and Engineering, and Factory Automation to develop innovative components as well as tailored system solutions and services. Bosch Rexroth offers its customers hydraulics, electric drives and controls, gear technology, and linear motion and assembly technology all from one source. With locations in over 80 countries, more than 31.100 associates generated sales revenue of approximately 5.4 billion

FOCUS 3: the 3rd generation FOCUS vehicles in the family of ROTV systems designed, developed and manufactured by MacArtney (Image: MacArtney)

MTR100: MacArtney

and systems specializing in design, manufacture, sales and service of a wide range of systems to offshore oil and gas operators, surveyors, the renewable energy sector, ocean science institutes and navies across the world. The company offers an extensive variety of advanced and reliable products and system solutions which are designed and tested to supply high quality, efficiency and dependable performance in challenging underwater environments. All MacArtney systems and components are backed by an international network of subsidiaries and representatives providing local access to global support.  

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