Newly-designed Pains Wessex products unveiled at SMM

Thursday, 15 July 2010 08:36

Chemring Marine is exhibiting its extensive range of Pains Wessex marine distress signals at the SMM show as well as unveiling its new Pains Wessex Manoverboard MK8 and Buoysmoke MK8 lifebuoy markers.

Chemring Marine, the world’s leading supplier of marine distress signals to commercial and leisure marine markets, has several distributors exhibiting at the Hamburg, Germany event from 7-10 September.

Pains Wessex distributor, Hygrapha, from Germany, is on stand B5/461 and will be displaying the new products.

New Chemring Marine Managing Director Justine Heeley will be attending the influential trade show along with German-based Sales Manager Holger Muegge to meet new and existing distributors and customers.

The new Manoverboard and Buoysmoke products will be initially available through Pains Wessex’s European distributors before being sold in other global markets. They both replace previous MOB 360 and Buoysmoke MK2 models.

The updated products boast a number of important features and benefits, including:

* Sturdy, robust and far exceeds SOLAS requirements

* Drop-tested to 60m (SOLAS only requires 30m and MOB 360 was 50m)

* Reed-switched lights, not water-activated

* Universal two-piece stainless steel mounting bracket makes fixing to inaccessible bridge wings easier

* Retaining clip aids security and helps prevent accidental loss of the signal in very bad weather conditions

* Ideal for large tankers and oil and gas rigs

Pains Wessex Product Manager Keith Bradford says, “The new Pains Wessex Manoverboard MK8 day and night Lifebuoy Marker produces fifteen minutes of dense orange smoke and a self-activated lighting system that far exceeds SOLAS requirements for light output of two candela and two hours duration.

“The new Pains Wessex Buoysmoke MK8 is identical, except that it does not feature the lighting system, so is an orange smoke daytime marker only.”

Chemring Marine, based in Fareham, UK, is part of the Chemring Group PLC and is the world’s leading supplier of SOLAS, MED & USCG-approved marine distress signals.

Available through over 200 distributors in more than 80 countries, Chemring Marine’s comprehensive range of products has been helping to save lives for more than 100 years and is specified by the world’s navies, merchant fleets, fishing vessels, rescue services, airlines and leisure craft.

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