Aquatic, an Acteon company, delivered a new 50 tonne tensioner in Q2/2011 (AQTT-10D-50) and has a fifth (AQTT-10E-50) about to be commissioned. The ever-growing demand for more product in the water is being met by an Aquatic poised for growth, so says General Manager EMEA, David McKechnie, when considering his first 100 days in post. With parent company Acteon investing solidly in Aquatic, the company continues to strive for its vision as preferred partner in providing equipment and services for handling reeled products.
These new tensioners join the AQTT-10 series of 40te and 50te tensioners, underscoring customer requests for heavier tensioners with greater capacity. The new AQTT-10E-50 has also been designed to work in tandem with the other 50Te machines in the range on special projects that require 100 tonne tensioners with very long contact length. Aquatic’s engineering facility in Peterhead is developing a bespoke functional and capability test regime ensuring that the two pieces of equipment and the new control system allow two AQTT-10 tensioners to pull together and effectively operate as a single unit 100te tensioner.
“It’s about creating the demand for equipment, as well as fulfilling existing requirements,” explains McKechnie. “Worldwide, there are a number of projects all seeking similar equipment. We have to be able to respond to that demand, and often will adapt a piece of kit, re-engineer it for a specific enquiry, but we also then are able to stimulate greater interest because that innovative solution is now available.”
Also being in the pipeline, under construction or awaiting testing prior to commissioning for service are two more AQTT-13s, 20 tonne tensioners to meet a gap in Aquatic’s ever burgeoning portfolio of reel drives and tensioners. Like the majority of Aquatic’s kit, these new tensioners are all modular, so they can be shipped anywhere in the world.
Customers will often request the same equipment they had previously, and it’s down to the project engineers at Aquatic to explain the differences between pieces of kit, and often will recommend an alternative that can do a more efficient job, depending on the project in hand.
Aquatic knows the future is about making more and more diverse, equipment available. To that end they are also introducing two new reel drive systems in the AQPR-08 and AQPR-02 series’. The new AQPR-08 will be 200 tonne lift capacity, while the AQPR-02 will be a 500te reel drive system. The new AQPR-02J has a track system to work with multi- reels that can walk the tower system along the tracks. Aquatic provides a team of experienced multi-skilled hydraulics technicians who will operate the kit, as well as advise on how best to place the equipment on deck to optimise the health & safety risks, taking into account the expected weather, the motion of the vessel and the ease of use of the equipment from a specific location.
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Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd
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