Upswing In Water Lubricated Shafts As European Operators Look For Greater Environmental Protection

Thordon Bearings has registered an upswing in the number of historic passenger vessels operating on European waterways with water lubricated propeller shaft bearings as a way of further protecting those waterways from oil and grease pollution.

According to Andreas Gitterle, Managing Director of Neotecha GmbH, a member of Thordon’s distributor network, there has been a steady rise in the number of bearing retrofits to tourist ships operating on Lake Constance and other Alpine lakes over the past...

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