GRE Pipe System Retrofit For Swedish Icebreakers
Future Pipe Industries Group (FPI) and its Swedish contractor Scanunit are to replace 1200 m of steel pipe per ship with glass fiber reinforced epoxy pipe systems (GRE) onboard the Atle and Frej icebreakers. Just one year after FPI and Scanunit started their collaboration, the Swedish Maritime Association granted this big order. Both 22,000bhp icebreakers measure 104 m overall and feature a beam of 23.5 m. Marc Groenewoud, Unit Manager Shipbuilding of FPI said: “We are very pleased that our co-operation with Scanunit is already so successful. Securing this project is testament to the fact that our collaboration has a lot of synergies for both of our organisations. Scanunit will be leading this project and FPI will supply the material to Lulea, in the North of Sweden. Both prefabrication (alongside) and installation of the spools will be done by trained Scanunit fitters in close co-operation with FPI. Before mounting the new system in the ships, the existing steel pipes will be removed. Together with the GRE piping Scanunit will install new plate heat exchangers and Boll & Kirch filters. So we can speak of true turnkey project management.”