Harbour and shipyard operations have been part of this firm's world since its founding years.
The founder came out of crane building for shipyards: floating cranes of great lifting capacity, heavy-duty cranes for the fitting-out basins, slipway installations. What is needed there is at heart the same as on land – only in salt air and in continuous service.
Salt air and damp call for a material that stays resistant. The material sheet sets all six materials side by side with seven resistances.
Where engaging and braking are done with compressed air, a tyre element parts and connects with little wear.
A ship stays in service for twenty years. For every range, the older ones included, we still have spare parts.
Pneumatically engaged, in the SI and VC designs. When disengaged there is always a gap between friction linings and drum, so that the coupling does not rub even during long idle periods.
Source: catalogue sheet “Flexible pneumatic tyre clutch”
For all six materials the material sheet lists seven resistances, among them those to water and to weathering.
Source: material sheet AB of 01.09.2020
The core range with exchangeable packs in HGW, NBR, PUA and Viton – the material is chosen to suit the operating conditions, not the other way round.
Source: catalogue sheet of the KADO coupling packs
That we supply this sector is information from the management, 13.10.2026. Why a range suits a load case is in the catalogue sheets; the place is named for each range.
We will get back to you shortly – with a person who knows the engineering.
