For a relatively new player in the winch business, Norwegian company Evotec has been quickly turning into a leader – and has recently announced a couple of prestigious new contracts.
The Duthie family, owners of Scottish pelagic vessel Sunbeam, have placed an order for a replacement for their current vessel, a 56-metre vessel built in Spain in 1999. This time the order has gone to the Myklebust yard in Norway which will build the new Sunbeam to a Salt design. The order for the deck equipment has also gone to Norway, with Evotec contracted to deliver the fishing and mooring winches for the new Sunbeam, due for delivery in late 2025 or the early part of 2026.
It’s a substantial order for Evotec’s MultiSoft Trawl winches, with permanent magnet motors and converters. These winches have dynamic properties that provide a high level of efficiency and the Evotec winches also offer significant savings in space and weight.
“This is another project developed in close collaboration with Salt Ship Design. It is particularly pleasing that the majority of the ripple effects from such a delivery are placed along the Norwegian coast. The company has worked closely with Evotec for a long time, and we are very pleased to be chosen as the supplier to the Duthie family,” Evotec Sales Manager Håkon Woldsund said.
Faroese upgrade
Alongside the order for Sunbeam, Evotec has secured an order for a pair of multi-purpose new fishing vessels due to be built at the Karstensen yard in Denmark for Faroese company Faroe Origin, which recently parted company with one of its pair teams and has gone for a multi-purpose replacement with two new vessels capable of operating as a pair or singly with multi-rig gear, as well as having processing facilities for handling both fresh and frozen catches.
The design of the 44.1-metre pair is the result of a close collaboration between Faroe Origin and the Karstensen design team, aiming to come up with versatile and economic vessels capable of landing catches with the lowest achievable CO2 emissions per kilo of seafood.
Silage systems and tanks are integral to the processing layout design, to ensure processing waste is kept to a minimum. The pair are to be outfitted with ABC 8DZC main engines and delivery is planned for the first- and second-quarters of 2026.
Faroe Origin has also opted for Evotec winches for its new pair team.
“Our compact and robust solutions with low weight have a positive impact on these trawlers, which are relatively small but includes a lot of handling equipment,” Woldsund said.
“It’s not given that the company would prioritise investing in electric winches – but in order to reduce the carbon footprint during the operational phase, this decision was made. After a long and thorough process with tough international competition, we managed to meet the customers on their expectations.”
He added that Evotec has already been busy at the Karstensen yard this year, where the company’s engineers are delivering the winch systems for Faroese pelagic vessels Finnur Friði and Høgaberg.
