Norwegian Shipowners Rely on Ibercisa Machinery

Norway, one of the most technologically demanding markets in the fishing world, is practically closed to many foreign companies due to the fact that Norwegian shipowners rely on home technology. However, Ibercisa, from Vigo in Spain after many years of intense commercial activity has managed to break into this competitive market signing three important contracts for the supply of naval and fishing machinery for the Companies Volstad, REM and Andenesfiske.

The machinery will be installed on board the trawler which the Norwegian company Volstad is building in the Turkish shipyard Tersan, on the REM trawler under construction at the Norwegian shipyard STX-OSV and on another trawler which Andenesfiske is building in Tersan. With this operation the Vigo based company will gain access to the most technologically demanding market in the fishing world and in which Ibercisa has been highly active commercially for over a decade, its efforts have now paid off with the delivery of this machinery.

With the introduction of electrical drive on its equipment, Ibercisa has become a market leader in this kind of technology which is cost saving both when building the vessel and when operating it later and reduces environmental hazards and contamination.

Ibercisa has supplied electrical split trawl winches with a drum capacity for 3,000 m Ø 34 mm or 3,400 m Ø 32 mm. and a nominal line pull from 49,5 t at 38 m/min. at first layer to 20,1 t at 93 m/min at 17 th layer. This trawl winches are driven by an ABB water cooler electric motor of 355 Kw – 600 r/m, 440 V – 50 Hz, controlled by frequency converter, mounted in vertical below deck. They have hermetical and splitted gear box based on three steps of pinion / crown helical type, all of them working in permanent oil bath by immersion; and the fixed drum specially reinforced with band brake differential type, hydraulically operated by means of a special cylinder with Belleville springs inside to brake with pressure loss.

The supplies also includes:

– Electrical gilson winches driven by 75 Kw – 1500 r/m, (S2 – 30ʼ service), 400 V – 50 Hz, IP-56, electric with a capacity for 125 m of rope of Ø 40 mm., 22,2 t al 19,5 m/min at first lay and achieves a 28,8 t nominal pull at 29,2 m/min on the first lay.

– Electric sweepline winches driven by a 110 Kw -1,800 r/min electric motor, 400 V – 50 Hz, with automatic electro-magnetic disc brake and encoder with a capacity of 1,100 m of wire Ø28 mm. and a nominal line pull of 20,3 t at 31 m/min on the first lay.

– Electric net sounder winches griven by an electric motor of 55 kW at 1,500 r/m, 400 V – 50 Hz, with automatic brake, heating resistances and PT100 temperature sensors and encoder with a capacity for 4,000 m Ø11,3 m. These winches have a pull and speed of 5,7 t at 53 m/min on the first lay.

– Electric auxiliary winches driven by a 7,5 Kw – 1,500 r/m electric motor, 400 V- 50 Hz with automatic electro-magnetic disc brake and including encoder. These winches have a drum capacity of 60 m Ø12 mm. and a nominal line pull and speed on the first lay of 1,1 t at 36 m/min.

– Electric net drums driven by an electric motor of 260 Kw at 1,500 r/m and 85 % gear box efficiency. Each drum has a net capacity for 13 m3 and a nominal line pull of 36,5 t at 37 m/min.

– Electric net drum driven by a 30 Kw at 1,500 r/m electric motor with fail safe brake disc brake with a net capacity for 13 m3 and a nominal line pull of 6 t at 26 m/min.

– Electric auxiliary winch driven by a 11 Kw at 1,500 r/m electric motor and a drum capacity for 1,100 m of wire of Ø28 mm. and a nominal line pull of 2 t at 31 m/min.

– Electric auxiliary winches driven by a 45 Kw at 1.500 r/m electric motor, drum capacity for 50 m Ø10 mm and a nominal line pull of 7,8 t at 32 m/min

– Coden winches driven by 75 Kw at 1,500 r/m with a drum capacity for 150 Ø22 mm. and a nominal line pull of 12,1 t at 35,7 m/min.

– Electric auxiliary windlass driven by an electric motor of 45 Kw at 1,000 r/m with a drum capacity for 2x 370 m Ø48 and 27,5 m chain Ø46 mm and a nominal line pull of 16,9 t at 12,7 m/min at first lay.

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Press Release, February 12, 2013