Ship&Offshore | Issue 06/2016
Special handling system for offshore production modules
AXTECH/Bosch Rexroth The Norwegian company AXTECH has developed a special handling system (SHS) for offshore production modules in collaboration with Germany’s Bosch Rexroth AG. The SHS can lift gas production modules weighing up to 384 tonnes from deck, turn them around 180° and lower them 320m to the seabed, write Lars Christian Haugerud, senior sales engineer at Bosch Rexroth AS in Norway, and Michael Teuteberg, technical sales support for hydraulic engineering/applications at Bosch Rexroth AG in Germany.