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NEW ON BOARD Shipyards of BLRT Grupp will install scrubbers S hip-repair yards of BLRT Grupp and the marine industry’s solutions provider Wärtsilä has signed a Co-operation Agree- ment aimed at promoting the exhaust gas purification systems (scrubbers). All ship-repair yards of BLRT Grupp will cooperate – Tallinn Shipyard in Tallinn, Western Shiprepair in Klaipeda and Turku Repair Yard in Turku. “This agreement is the new phase of cooperation between our concerns that will allow not only to conduct general repairs in our yards but also to modernise ships in accordance with the new requirements of international conventions,” explained Marketing Director of Tallinn Shipyard Gabriel Avanesov. The international convention MARPOL (International Con- “The success of this cooperation was confirmed by the pi- vention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships), namely its lot project which was carried out by our specialists at Turku Re- Annex VI «Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships», sets limits on pair Yard in anticipation of a formal agreement,” said Managing sulfur content in the fuel that is used in ship propulsion systems. Director of Turku Repair Yard Hans Sundqvist. According to him, By 2015, the limit for sulphur content in the fuel for SECA zones the specialists of BLRT Grupp have everything that is required to (Sox Emission Control Areas: the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, carry out modernisation works and to develop relevant projects La Manche) shall be 0,1 percent. The most cost-effective and ef- and draw up the documentation. ficient way to achieve these goals is to purify exhaust gases. The The agreement was concluded for a period of three years and it involves installation of scrubbers on the ships that regularly op- equipment provided by Wärtsilä and installed by BLRT Grupp’s yards reduces sulphur oxides by 99 percent. erate in SECA zones. According to the analytics, scrubber market capacity may increase up to 70 billion dollars by the year 2025. More information: www.turkurepairyard.com ThyssenKrupp invested and expanded in Finland G ermany’s largest metal stock enterprise and multi industry The company imports, markets and stores tool and surface corporation ThyssenKrupp is strengthening its position in aluminiums, aluminium sheets cut to measurements, specialty the Nordic countries. The company invested 3,5 Million Euros last steel and titanium. The materials are used for different structures year into the new premises and machines of ThyssenKrupp Aero- in aviation industry, combustion engines, power stations and oth- space Finland Oy in Jämsänkoski. Through the expansion the Finn- er targets demanding high strength or good corrosion resistance. ish unit targets growth and new aluminium clients. The service also includes the supply of machined parts accord- ThyssenKrupp bought an aviation industry material provid- ing to clients’ needs. er a few years ago, Apollo Metals- corporation, which operated ”We have worked in three different locations, and our in Mänttä. At the same time it established a new industry group, growth targets demand merging of our operations. Now we have ThyssenKrupp Aerospace Finland Oy. The business unit in Finland space twice as large than all our previous premises were togeth- is also responsible for operations in Sweden, Norway and the Bal B