Balk Shipyard – Europe’s First AntiRoll Installation Facility
With immediate effect, Balk Shipyard is now the first AntiRoll installation facility in Northern Europe. For Balk Shipyard this adds an additional branch to their existing range of refit services. For DMS Holland it means they are able to offer their AntiRoll customers an experienced, highly skilled and high quality installation point. Ground-breaking, innovative and ultimate stabilising technology together with the sophisticated retractable installation make AntiRoll the unparalleled stabilisation system for superyachts. Independent test results from MARIN confirm its unprecedented stability performance on all fronts.
Patrick Noor, Director at DMS Holland, says: “We have always said that the Netherlands is our primary market area. Our DMS-stabilisation AntiRoll system does of course have an extensive international appeal but we wanted to start with an installation facility here in the Netherlands first. In that respect, Balk Shipyard was an easy choice. This shipyard has all the required technical expertise, the logistics and the organisational facilities for a professional installation.
Both partners believe in and fully support further harmonious cooperation amongst companies within the Dutch yacht building industry. Daan Balk, CEO at Balk Shipyard says: “There is no other country within the yachting industry with such a concentrated amount of specialised yacht builders and suppliers in a radius of approximately 200km. That has the potential for some serious effectiveness throughout the yachting industry and we, here in the Netherlands, really should be taking advantage of that a lot more.”