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Ancillary equipment Contact Unison Ltd, Olympian Trading Estate,
Tube bending
Cayton Low Road, Eastfield, Scarborough, North
Yorkshire,YO11 3BT, UK.
goes electric
Phone +44 1723 582868
Fax +44 1723 582379
Unison has launched its latest all-electric benders E-mail
enquiries@unisonltd.com
for handling tubing diameters of up to 175mm.
www.unisonltd.com
Unison’s all-electric tube bending machinery range
brings the enormous process, flexibility and business Engines
advantages of software-controlled set-up and
bending to a large range of heavy-duty applications.
MAN Diesel
Machines from the Unison Breeze family can now
supplies Turkey
generate bending torques as high as 165,000Nm.
The ability to accommodate 175mm diameter MAN Diesel has signed a contract with the Turkish
tubing will make it particularly suitable for handling manufacturer Karadeniz Powership Company Ltd.,
lightweight high-strength ducting manufactured worth over €100 million. The Augsburg-based
from specialist materials. Fast, software-controlled manufacturer of large-bore diesel engines is to supply up
set-up enables the Breeze 170 to handle batch sizes to a total of 24 engines, together with electromechanical
as small as one in a very efficient manner. equipment needed for the generation of electricity.
The contract includes 21 18V51/60DF dual-fuel
engines and three type 14V48/60 HFO engines, with
a total output of 400MW. The large-bore diesel engines
are to be installed onboard four power ships.
The ‘power ships’ are equipped with their own
propulsion engines and therefore do not need to be
towed. They are expected to be used in Africa, Pakistan
and other regions in the Middle East and around the
Mediterranean. The MAN Diesel dual-fuel engines are
characterised by the fact that they can be powered by
either liquid fuels or gas. “Our dual-fuel engines are
ideal for this purpose. The ships will be able to use
whatever the infrastructure available at the site on
unison launches its latest pipe bending machinery. which they are needed – regardless of whether they are
fuelled by oil or gas,” says Dr. Stephan Mey, head of the
power plant business at MAN Diesel. And one further
“All-electric machines have become preferred over advantage with the dual-fuel engines is that when
hydraulic actuation in tube bending applications powered by gas, in particular, they ensure extremely
involving precision shaping, exotic alloy materials, low-emission and therefore ecologically friendly
or small batch sizes,” says Unison’s CEO Alan combustion. MAN Diesel has recently received similar
Pickering. “Expanding the scope of all-electric orders from Brazil and Australia.
machines to seven inch diameters provides the
means for new classes of user to improve their Contact MAN Diesel SE, Stadtbachstrasse 1, D-86224
production procedures and processes - allowing Augsburg, Germany.
radical improvements in a large number of areas Tel +49 821 3220
including machine set-up, the operator skills Fax +49 821 3223382
required, minimum batch sizes, post-bend testing E-mail
mandiesel-de@mandiesel.com
operations, and the need to make sample bends on
www.mandiesel.com
new material batches to understand the material’s
characteristics.” Ancillary equipment
In addition to launching larger machines, Unison
will be releasing a new generation of its Unibend
Cargotec supply
Control Software. Among many new software
electric cranes
features is an intuitive graphical user interface, and
a simple bending simulation facility to help users Cargotec’s has acquired a contract to supply electric-
develop collision-free programmes for the most drive MacGregor cranes for a series of eight 16,900dwt
complex part shapes. bulkers being built in China.
18 The Naval Architect January 2010
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