High-tech on board

Shipbuilding has been part of human history since the dawn of time and made it possible to settle all continents. With the industrial revolution and globalization, the demand for ever larger bulk carriers and tankers at low cost has increased. The business is mainly concentrated in Far Eastern countries.

In Europe, the formerly important shipbuilding nations have opened up new, sustainable market niches:

• Cruise ships and yachts,
• Special ships (e.g., cable-laying vessels),
• naval shipbuilding,
• Offshore technology and offshore wind farms.

This specialization in complex, high-value high-tech ship types and offshore technology requires constant innovation in the supply industry, including pumps for use in seawater of varying degrees of aggressiveness.

For wastewater treatment, the “Alaska standard” has been enacted, which stipulates high purity requirements. To comply with these requirements, high-quality pumps with various cutting systems are used in ship sewage treatment plants.

With marine and deep-sea mining, a high-tech future technology is increasingly becoming the focus of the supply industry, which also places the highest demands on pump construction.