Flotation

We offer a best in class solution to just about any surface or subsurface buoyancy requirement from customers throughout the world.

If we cannot meet a requirement from our extensive range of off the shelf products, we apply our experience and engineering expertise to design a new solution.

In addition, with the recent acquisition of a leading firm of naval architects, we have now added mooring system design to our bespoke product design capability.

Steel has been the material of choice for surface buoyancy applicationsfor many decades. We still offer steel buoys to those customers who prefer them.

However, for more than 20 years, there has been a shift away from the significant capital and labour costs involved in building, deploying and maintaining steel products. The growing preference is for modern, lightweight, low maintenance forms of plastic buoyancy.

Within the Fendercare Marine group of companies, we have two designers and manufacturers of plastic buoyancy, both serving a global customer base.

Australian Commercial Marine (ACM) has a long established and market leading range of mooring and navigational buoys manufactured from rotationally moulded polyethylene. They have harnessed a unique "foam sandwich" variant of this technology, to offer buoys with outstanding collision absorption properties. Others may seek to emulate them, but there is only one genuine range of ACM buoys.

Hippo Marine are a world renowned UK based manufacturer of elastomer type buoys, the same technology that they use in foam filled fendering solutions. This results in self fendering surface buoys which are specifically designed to absorb impacts without either suffering or causing damage, making them the preferred choice for offshore operations.

We can also introduce Kevlar™ reinforcement into the elastomer skin of the products to offer outstanding durability for heavy duty work.

We have also recently developed a subsurface buoyancy capability in a product line now being delivered to offshore and governmental customers worldwide.