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Marketplace | Spars: Offshore Spars - Finnish carbon production starts
In 2002 Offshore Spars supplemented spar production at its factory in Chesterfield, Michigan, where it has been mast-building since 1976, with a new manufacturing plant in Jakobstad, Finland. This almost doubled its total production area by adding 2,000m² to its existing US capacity of 2,200m². Then, in November ...
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Marketplace | Spars: Seldén Mast - Embracing carbon
With an annual group production of more than 10,000 dinghy masts, 6,000 yacht masts, plus a range of related hardware and accessories including its Furlex headsail furler range, Sweden’s Seldén group lays claim to being the biggest manufacturer of masts and rigging in the world. Seldén group was founded by ...
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Marketplace | Spars: Nordic Mast - moving up in carbon
Having manufactured only aluminium spars for the first 15 years of its life, Nordic Mast added carbonfibre spar production 10 years ago. Now, since it sold its aluminium business to John Mast at the beginning of this year, it has turned exclusively to carbon masts and related products.Nordic today has ...
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Marketplace | Spars: Mastermasten — aluminium masts
Based at Wervershoof, Netherlands, Mastermasten custom-builds aluminium masts for boats up to 18m (60ft). Rather than using prefabricated aluminium extrusions, it welds its own sections in lengths up to 25m (82ft) as well as stainless steel components.The company has been in operation for six years, having grown out of the ...
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Marketplace | Spars: John Mast — from father to son
In 1971 John Christensen built his first mast in the loft of his house in Denmark. Since then his company, John Mast, has produced more than 45,000 spars, taking as its philosophy that masts and booms should be solid, functional and of a top-notch design. At the 8000m² John Mast ...
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Marketplace | Spars: Future Fibres — a new direction in standing rigging
Having introduced composite materials into the standing rigging market, Future Fibres can claim to have revolutionised the top end of the rigging business. Its wound unidirectional PBO standing rigging first appeared on race boats in 1999, offering lighter rigs with less windage compared with rod rigging, and at least as ...
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Marketplace | Spars: Hall Spars — top on carbon tonnage
Although it doesn’t give output figures, Hall Spars and Rigging says that the total tonnage of carbon that it uses each year to produce composite spars is far greater than that used by any other spar manufacturer. The company, which started operations in Bristol, Rhode Island in 1980, produces one-piece, ...
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Marketplace | Spars: FurlerBoom — reefing in composites
In-boom reefing systems manufactured by Danish company FurlerBoom are housed in spars moulded in both glassfibre and carbon reinforced composites. Over the past two years FurlerBoom has changed its lamination method from hand layup to 95 per cent seamless vacuum infusion moulding as the company has reoriented its marketing from ...
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Marketplace | Spars: Formula for growth
Formula Yacht Spars was incorporated in the late 1990s to design, engineer and build quality yacht spars in both carbonfibre and aluminium. Since then, the company, which is based at Lymington on England’s south coast, has grown steadily, providing grand prix and cruising spars as well as complete rig and ...
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Marketplace | Spars: Forespar — from whisker poles to full-on spar building
Robert Foresman started Forespar Products Corporation 42 years ago to manufacture a telescopic whisker pole. Since then the privately owned company based at Rancho Santa Margarita, California, has gradually expanded its manufacturing capability to produce spars in both aluminium alloy and carbon composite as part of a broad range of ...
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Marketplace: Spars
The spar market has moved significantly towards carbon composites over the past few years, but are carbon spars poised to displace aluminium, the mainstay of the volume mast builders for many decades? In the spar business, that’s now a hotly contested issue.
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FarSounder appoints VP of sales and marketing
Ian Bowles will be responsible for expanding the company's sales and distribution channels globally
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Management study | Private label strategy: Private inroads
In the US boating industry, the private label phenomenon is most visible in the retail sector, where consolidation has made West Marine far and away the market leader. However, in Europe, where marine retail is still highly fragmented, it is in the wholesale distribution business where private label activity is ...
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World news focus | US boat loans: Boat loan blues?
The US subprime mortgage crisis that shook global markets in late summer has accelerated the decline of the US housing market. Caught in the crossfire: Boat loans.
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Industry Insider | Dustan McCoy
With the US marine industry hitting its worst slump for a decade, Brunswick CEO and chairman Dusty McCoy talks to IBI about the tough choices the company has had to make and its strategy for growth going forward.
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BUSINESS REPORT | Poland: Oar inspiring - A modern performer in an old-fashioned world
The drum beat of technology sets the pace for most industries. However, a small oar manufacturer is bucking the trend with its crafted products for a niche market.
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BUSINESS REPORT | Poland
Poland’s track record as a contract boatbuilder for a number of key European and US yards is well documented. However, demand for home-grown brands is on the rise too — and not just in export markets, as early indications suggest that an increasing number of ‘middle-class’ Polish consumers are slowly ...
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Teijin Aramid appointment
Rob Woudman has been made application development engineer/technical account manager
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Report shows South Florida at "forefront" of global megayacht growth
About 1,500 megayachts in Broward, Dade and Palm Beach counties in 2006 had an economic impact of US$732 million, and were associated with 7,366 full-time jobs
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Brunswick moves Theophilus from Middle Eastern Group to head Hatteras
Keri Theophilus will replace Mark Harakel as president of the Hatteras Collection
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