Friday, September 28, 2012

A New Record

Congratulations to Eng. Buzzi and his team for completing the Bermuda Challenge in a record 17 hours with an average speed of 46 knots 52 mph.

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Friday, September 28, 2012

The Bermuda Challenge

“The Bermuda Challenge” is as the title suggests, an endurance trial set for powerboats to travel from New York to Bermuda, some 673nm (774 miles) in the shortest time possible. This is not a competition in which many boats compete together side by side, but a challenge which needs many months of preparation and organisation, not least because the event normally takes place in the summer months where the weather conditions are unpredictable.

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The current record time is held by Chris Fertig, who recently managed to beat the existing record achieved in 2002, shaving 44 minutes off the time. The challenge was completed in just under 22 hours, no small feat for a powerboat on the open sea.

Fabio Buzzi from FB Designs is a well-known and respected boat builder based in Italy. FB Designs build high speed interceptor boats for military and civilian coast guard use. ITW Plexus has been supplying FB Design with structural adhesives to use on various applications on the vessel, allowing Eng. Buzzi and his design team to develop revolutionary concepts in boat building.

The Bermuda Challenge started last night in New York at 17:00 with Eng Buzzi predicated to arrive in Bermuda app. 19:00 this evening smashing the existing record, with an average speed of 48 Knots (55 mph or 88 kph).

You can track the team’s progress at http://fbdesign.it/record.php


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Friday, September 21, 2012

Reporting from the Innotrans Exhibition

Hello to everyone from the Innotrans exhibition. This is my first blog post, and for those of you who I have yet to meet, I am Thorsten Petersen the newly appointed Territory Sales Manager for Germany and Switzerland.

Day three of the show and today Sally Sinai (Product Manager) and I approached the big unions of Railway suppliers and Railway companies in Europe. The objective is to build a relationship with these associations with a view to being involved in their design process. Also introduced ourselves to various composite, interior, carpet and head light manufacturers.
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My summary from the biggest rail show is that in future we should be present here with a coordinated ITW stand including MRO, Fasteners and Automotive, demonstrating our wide range of competence.

Closing with the sentence of today: “There are no problems, there are only projects.”

Good bye from Berlin for now.


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