Veth Propulsion by Twin Disc Inc. has delivered its 4,000th thruster. The 4,000th thruster—a special-edition, golden model—will be mounted on the Protoporos 15, one of 15 ferries owned by the Tsokos family. Each… Read More
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Twin Disc Inc., has appointed James Feiertag as president and chief operating officer (COO) effective May 1. Feiertag assumes the role of president previously held by CEO John Batten, and… Read More
Twin Disc Inc. said May 15 that it is near completion of an expansion project in Wisconsin. The 39,000 square-foot North American Aftermarket Distribution Center offers three times the capacity of… Read More
Twin Disc Inc., the Racine, Wis.-based global leader in power transmission technology, recently broke ground on a new manufacturing and distribution facility in Lufkin, Texas. The new operations center is… Read More
Twin Disc is helping shipbuilders put the latest energy-efficient hybrid technology to work for excursion vessels. For its new 600-passenger excursion vessel, Enhydra, launched in September, San Francisco-based Red and… Read More
The year is 1967. Teledyne Corporation has just acquired Berwick, La.-based Sewart Seacraft, a shipyard known best for its military patrol craft. Part of the acquisition was the shipyard’s small… Read More
Plimsoll Marine, which operates 19 towboats that offer fleeting and shifting services for Cooper Consolidated between Baton Rouge, La., and Head of Passes on the Lower Mississippi River, recently took… Read More
Main Iron Works owner Arlen “Benny” Cenac Jr. recently announced completion of the first of three 2,680 hp. towboats the shipyard is building for Kirby Inland Marine. The vessel, named… Read More
Twin Disc Inc. pioneered the slipping-clutch marine control drive (MCD) more than 30 years ago. The company’s newly released MCD Series—the MCD-2000, MCD-4000 and MCD-5000—build on the company’s legacy of… Read More
Master Marine Inc., Bayou la Batre, Ala., announced November 9 it has signed contracts to build six Subchapter M-compliant towboats, and has already laid the keels for the first two. Read More
