Thordon ThorPlas-Blue Found to Reduce Operating Costs While Creating a Safe Working Environment The grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings Thordon supplied and installed to a Mississippi River line haul boat recently have helped reduce the vessel’s operating costs while creating a safer working environment for the crew When this 180 ft (54.9m) triple screw work boat recently docked for repairs, the ThorPlas-Blue bearings previously retrofitted to the vessel’s tiller and jockey bars by precision field machining company Mactech On-Site showed no signs of wear, despite two years operating in the abrasive, low draught waters of the Mississippi River in the U.S.A. In response to the customer’s request for grease and corrosion-free tiller linkage capable of withstanding greater vertical movement of

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