(With extra pictures) Subsea Industries, a Hydrex company, has won the Seatrade 2014 Innovation in Ship Operations Award for Ecoshield, which provides protection from cavitation and corrosion/erosion damage for ship hulls, rudders, and ship underwater running gear.
The award was presented by HRH The Princess Royal and accepted for Subsea Industries by David Phillips, Hydrex Group Communications Executive at the Seatrade 2014 Awards Dinner held at the Guildhall in London on 14 April.
Ecoshield
The Seatrade 2014 Awards programme describes Ecoshield as follows: After more than 10 years of strenuous testing, Ecoshield was launched in 2013 for permanent protection against cavitation damage for rudders. The glassflake reinforced coating (a specially reinforced version of the well-known Ecospeed non-toxic underwater ship hull coating) protects the rudder for the service life of the ship without need for recoating or major repair, and comes with a ten-year guarantee. Ecoshield is also suitable for bulbous bow, stabiliser fins, thruster nozzles and other underwater ship gear which needs special protection from corrosion.
Subsea Industries is a subsidiary of Hydrex, an underwater technology company based in Belgium and the USA, which produces and delivers the Ecospeed underwater hull coating system and Ecoshield, rudder and running gear protection.
Picture: Seatrade 2014 Innovation in Ship Operations award winner Subsea Industries for Ecoshield. Left to right: HE Shaikh Daij Al Khalifa, Chairman ASRY – Sponsor; David Phillips Hydrex Communications Exec; HRH The Princess Royal; Mr. Koji Sekimizu, Secretary General International Maritime Organization, Chairman of Judging Panel; Mr. Chris Hayman, Chairman Seatrade.
Below some extra pictures showing cavitation damage and a rudder five years after applying Ecoshield. Please click the pop-out link to view the pictures in their proper dimensions.
