{"id":6587,"date":"2021-08-03T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2021\/08\/03\/whole-fleet-gets-grease-free-bearings\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:00:49","slug":"whole-fleet-gets-grease-free-bearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/power-propulsion\/whole-fleet-gets-grease-free-bearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole fleet gets grease-free bearings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fishing company Pesca Industrial Maros SA de CV has expressed its intention to start converting all of its vessels\u2019 tailshaft seals to Thordon\u2019s TG100 shaft seal later this year, following the refit on Maros VII<\/em> in 2019 when it was fitted with Thordon SXL tailshaft bearings and TG100 seals, making this the first time that the company had converted one of its trawlers to run with a seawater lubricated tailshaft conversion.<\/p>\n

The decision was made following the performance success of Thordon\u2019s grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings, which have been retrofitted to the deck winches aboard almost half of the vessel operator\u2019s 50-strong fleet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter many years of operating greased metal bearings, Maros now has grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings fitted to the winches of about twenty vessels,\u201d said Arturo Selvas, managing director of Thordon\u2019s Mexico based distributor, TZ Industrias.<\/p>\n

he  said that conventional winch bearings typically need about 56.6g of lubricating grease per day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a fleet of 50 vessels, greasing every winch can be very costly and time-consuming. The performance of ThorPlas-Blue, which is completely grease-free, has saved Maros a considerable amount of time and money. This was the basis for selecting Thordon\u2019s seawater lubricated tailshaft bearings and seals.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Maros VII<\/em>, TZ Industrias supplied, machined, and commissioned a pair of SXL tailshaft bearings and TG100 seals for a 127mm diameter shaft.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaros didn\u2019t have any technical issues with the original packing seals but simply wanted to enjoy the benefits that a mechanical seal can bring,\u201d Arturo Selvas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cRetrofitting to a Thordon seal is certainly an upgrade,\u201d said Jason Perry, Thordon\u2019s regional manager \u2013 North America.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you clutch in the shaft you really appreciate the difference. It\u2019s a completely better experience in terms of performance, longevity and reliability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaros is very happy with the new shafting arrangement and plans to convert more vessels later this year, when government grants are reinstated,\u201d Arturo Selvas added.<\/p>\n

Between 2005-2019, approximately 13.6 billion Mexican pesos were invested in different subsidy programmes throughout the country, with an annual average of around 1 billion pesos, and approximately 216,000 beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

Subsidies were halted two years ago but the government has proposed a return of grants for the country\u2019s fisheries sector in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2019 shrimp trawler Maros VII went to the Lighthouse Shipyard at Mazatl\u00e1n in Mexico for a refit and an upgrade so successful that the rest of the company\u2019s 50 vessels are getting the same treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-power-propulsion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6589,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions\/6589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}