Shipyards Look to Filtrine to Hydrate Their Workers | Filtrine Location Hampton Roads, Virginia and Pascagoula, Mississippi Challenge Shipbuilders around the world face tough climate conditions which impact the hydration of their workers such as high ambient temperatures and salty air. The Hampton Roads region in Virginia has both. It is the home of the US Navy’s Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. While the naval shipyard focuses on repairing, overhauling and modernizing navy ships and submarines, the shipbuilding company concentrates on the construction of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Before the 1970’s, they would bring in large quantities of bottled water for their workers to drink. That became too exp

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