Tools and Support Equipment for
Underwater Operations - Page 2
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This page provides links to:
1 - Marine engines and generators
2 - Winches
3 - Hand-powered lifting devices
4 - Powered underwater chain hoists
5 - Rigging devices
Marine engines and generators
Caterpillar Group offers engines spanning a power range from 200 to
21000 horsepower, generator sets, solar turbines, and reputable
construction machines.
Headquarters: 510 Lake Cook Rd Ste 100, Deerfield, IL 60015 - USA
Phone: +1 309-675-233
Website: https://www.caterpillar.com/
Yanmar's marine engine selection boasts a power spectrum ranging
from 40 to 7000 HP
Headquarters: 1-32, Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, 530-8311, Japan
Website: https://www.yanmar.com/global/
Baudouin sells marine engines with a power spectrum spanning from
180 to 1500 HP
Headquarters: Technoparc du Brégadan, 13260 Cassis, France
Phone: +33 488 688 500
Website: https://baudouin.com/
The engines built by Sole Diesel range from 16 to 272 HP
Headquarters: C-243b, km 2 - 08760, Martorell, Barcelona, España
Phone: +93 775 14 00
Website: https://www.solediesel.com/en/
Scania manufactures propultion engines from 200 tp 1200 HP
Headquarters: Scania AB, Vagnmakarvägen, SE-15187 Södertälje,
Sweden
Phone: +46(0)855 38 10 00
Website: https://www.scania.com/group/en/home/products-and-
services/scania-international-sales-power-solutions.html
Winches
Aicrane machinery is the subsidiary brand of Aimix Group Co. Ltd,
specialized in Crane, Winch, and other lifting systems..
Address: central E-commerce port, Erqi District, Zhengzhou, Henan
- China, 450005
Website: https://aicranes.com/
Starter specializes in the design, construction, maintenance, integration
of electric, hydraulic, pneumatic, and thermal winches on all types of
equipment.
Address: 5 avenue du Vert Galant, 95310 Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône -
France
Phone: +33 139 091 919
Website: https://www.starterwinches.fr/en/
MacArtney provides winch and handling solutions. In addition, the
group is specialized in accessories for underwater vehicles.
Address: Gl. Guldagervej 48 (Goods Inwards - Bytoften 3), DK-6710
Esbjerg V (CVR No. 84 16 48 28) - Denmark.
Phone: +45 7613 2000
Website: https://www.macartney.com/
ACE specializes in the design, construction, and hire of lifting, pulling
and deploying solutions.
Address: Towie Barclay Works Turriff Aberdeenshire Scotland AB53
8EN - UK
Phone: +44 1888 511600
Website: https://ace-winches.com/
Rexroth is a member of the well known Bosch group that produces
compact winches and control solutions such as heave compensation
systems.
Address: Zum Eisengießer 197816 Lohr am Main. Germany
Phone: +49 9352 180
Website winch systems:
https://www.boschrexroth.com/en/xc/industries/machinery-
applications-and-engineering/offshore/products-and-
solutions/winch-systems/index
Website control solutions:
https://www.boschrexroth.com/en/xc/industries/machinery-
applications-and-engineering/offshore/offshore
Ingersoll-Rand builds air, hydraulic, and electric winches commonly
used in the diving and offshore industries.
Address: 800 Beaty St Building E Davidson, NC 28036 - USA
Phone: +1 704-655-4000
Email: customercare@ingersollrand.com
Website: https://www.ingersollrand.com/en-apac/
Weichai Power Co., Ltd is a developer and manufacturer of indutrial and
marine diesel engines from 40 to 4800 HP).
Headquarters: No. 197A, Fushou East Street, High-Tech
Development Zone, Weifang, 261001 Shandong, CN
Phone: 86-0536-8582088
Email: SWIEC_M@weichai.com
Website: https://en.weichai.com/cpyfw/wmdyw/dlzc/cpyfdj/
SDEC Power designs and manufactures engines from 67 to 2145 HP
Address: 2636 Jungong Road, Shanghai, 200438 - China
Phone: +86-21-60652315
Email for generators: generator@sdecie.com
Email for marine engine: marine@sdecie.com
Website: http://sdeciepower.com/2018/3-diesel-generator-
sets.html
Kholer - SDMO designs generators for all industies.
Headquarters: 270, rue de Kerervern 29490 Guipavas
Phone: +33 (0)2 98 41 41 41
Email: serviceclientppw@kohler.com
Website: https://www.kohler-sdmo.com/EN/industrial-generating-
sets
Siam Telemach generators provides portable units from 30 to 2000
kW
Office: 22/1 moo1 Ban Kluai-Sai Noi rd. Sainoi District Nonthaburi
11150 - Thailand
Phone: 02-926-8540-2 or 082-595-6696
Email: siamtelemach@yahoo.com
Website: https://www.siamtele.com/products-services/generator/
Poclain hydraulics designs and builts hydraulic components for marine
winches
Office: Route de Compiègne 60410 Verberie
Phone: +33 3 44 40 77 77
Contact: https://www.poclain-hydraulics.com/en/contact-us/sales-
network
Website: https://www.poclain-hydraulics.com
Hand-powered lifting devices
Jet is a well-known manufacturer of manual chain hoists and lever
hoists. Jet also provides electrically powered hoists for workshops.
Headquarters:
427 New Sanford Road, LaVergne, Tennessee 37086, USA
Website: https://jettools.com/
Titan specialises in chain and lever hoists capable of lifting loads up to
30 tonnes. This manufacturer also provides electric chain hoists and
manual drum winches , in addition to numerous lifting accessories,
such as snatch blocks, chain and webbing slings, hooks etc..
Headquarters: 42 Clements Ave, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia
Website: https://www.titanlifting.com/
Premium Tool & Abrasives Co. Ltd. (PTA) manufactures robust chain
hoists from 500 kg to 10 tonnes, designed with load limiters to protect
their mechanisms.
Headquarters: 10761 181 Street Edmonton AB T5S 1N3 - Canada
Website: https://www.premiumtool.com/
Coffing hoists provides chain and lever hoist from 500 kg to 40 tonnes
. Coffing hoists also built electrical hoists
Headquarters: Country Club Road, Wadesboro, NC 28170, USA
Website: https://www.coffing.com/
Yale hoists designs crane components, trolleys, electric hoists, manual
chain hoists and lever hoists.
Headquarters: 555 Riverside Pkwy Ste 100, Austell, Georgia, 30168,
United States
Website: https://www.yalehoist.com/
Vital is a company based in Japan that produces a range of chain
hoists and lever hoists from 250 kg to 20 tonnes.
Headquarters: Yasuda 2-chome, Tsurumi-ku, Osaka 538-0032
JAPAN.
Website: https://www.vital.co.jp/english/products/index.html
Kito Crosby is a global industrial group resulting from the acquisition of
Crosby, a renowned American group specializing in rigging hardware,
by Kito, a Japanese group specializing in lifting hoists.
Headquarters: 3-28, Kuze-Terajima 2-chome, Minami-ku, Kyoto,
601-8212, Japan.
Website: https://kito.co.jp/en/products/lb
Elephant Chain Block produces manual and electric chain hoists in
addition to lever hoists from 0.5 to 20 tonnes.
Headquarters: 589-8502 180 Iwamuro 2-chome, Osaka-Sayama
city Osaka,Japan
Website: https://www.elephant.co.jp/en/
William Hackett provides chain and lever hoists, with some models
designed for underwater exposure. This company also fabricates
chains and lifting accessories.
Headquarters: Oak Drive, Lionheart Enterprise Park Alnwick,
Northumberland, United Kingdom NE66 2EU
Website: https://www.williamhackett.co.uk/
Tiger lifting provides pneumatic, hydraulic, and manual hoists in
addition to winches, clamps, and yokes. This manufacturer is known to
also produce lever hoists and chain hoists designed to work
underwater.
Headquarters: Unit 1 Greensfield Industrial Estate Willowburn Ave,
Alnwick, Northumberland, NE - UK
Website: https://tigerlifting.com/
Tractel holds the brand "Tirfor", the 1st brand of jaw winches, created
by Simon Faure, the system's inventor. The company also provides
pneumatic lifting systems, chain hoists, slings, clamps, beams, and
many other tools.
Headquarters: RD 619 Saint-Hilaire-sous-Romilly, B.P. 38 F-10102 -
Romilly sur Seine - France
Website: https://www.tractel.com/en
Powertex - Ropetex produces and distributes lifting devices, lifting
chains, hooks, wire ropes , etc.
The headquarters are not clearly mentioned. Distributors are
localized in Western Europe and Australia.
Website: https://www.powertex-products.com
Ramhoist produces and distributes lifting devices, lifting chains, hooks,
wire ropes , etc.
Headquarters: No 8 Songyuan South Road Gaochun Economic
Development Zone, Nanjing China
Website: https://ramhoist.com/manual-hoists/
Toyo lift produces lever hoists and many lifting devices.
Headquarters: No 8 Songyuan South Road Gaochun Economic
Development Zone, Nanjing China
Website: https://www.toyolifting.com/
Powered underwater chain hoists
J. D. Neuhaus is specialised in the production of pneumatic winches
and cranes. The air hoists Profi 3 TI & 6 TI are air-powered lever
hoists designed to carry 3.2 or 6.3 tonnes at up to 70 metres of water
depth.
Headquarters: Windenstraße 2-4, Witten, Nordrhein-Westfalen,
58455 DE - Germany
Website: https://www.jdngroup.com/
Ingersoll Rand sells a series of hydraulic subsea lever hoists designed
to lift loads of 6, 12, 25, and 50 tonnes at depths up to 30 metres.
Headquarters: 800-A Beaty Street, Davidson, North Carolina, 28036
- United States of America
Website: https://liftingsolutions.ingersollrand.com/en-
se/hoists/subsea-hydraulic
Tiger lifting sells sells a series of subsea chain hoists specifically
studied for ROVs.
The range proposed to clients comprises machines designed to lift 3, 6,
8, 10, 15, 20, and 30 tonnes.
Headquarters: Unit 1 Greensfield Industrial Estate Willowburn Ave,
Alnwick, Northumberland, NE - UK
Website: https://tigerlifting.com/
Rigging devices
RUD designs lifting chains, lashing systems, connectors, hooks, & ROV
hooks.
Headquarters: Friedensinsel 73432 Aalen, Germany
Website: https://www.rud.com/
Green Pin provides shackles, ROV shackles, chains, hooks, ROV hooks,
swivels, lifting clamps, and other types of lifting connectors.
Headquarters: Industrieweg 6, 3361 HJ Sliedrecht, Netherlands
Website: https://www.greenpin.com/en/
Nautilus Rigging is a manufacturer of specific surface and ROV hooks
Headquarters: 23e Burnside Drive, Dyce, Aberdeen AB21 0HW -
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.nautilusrigging.com/
Wichard Group provides Stainless steel shackles and other connectors
for the marine industry and activities such as rope access work.
Headquarters: 1, ZI de Felet, CS 50085 - 63307 Thiers, France
Website: https://www.wichardgroup.com/
H-Ding Rigging produces shackles, turnbuckles, wire rope clips, hooks,
eye bolts and nuts, load binders, thimbles and swivels.
Headquarters: Qingdao - China
Website: http://www.qdh-drigging.com/
As mentioned above, Kito Crosby is a global industrial group resulting
from the acquisition of the rigging hardware manufacturer Crosby by
the Japanese lifting hoists manufacturer Kito. It must be noted that
Crosby is renowned for the quality of its production.
Headquarters: 3-28, Kuze-Terajima 2-chome, Minami-ku, Kyoto,
601-8212, Japan.
Website: https://kito.co.jp/en/products/lb
Marine Parts Europe is a provider of gensets and marine parts.
Office: Klangfärgsgatan 4B, 426 52 Västra Frölunda, Sweden
Phone: +46 31 762 4600
Email: parts@powerhouse.se
Website: https://marinepartseurope.com/en/
INI Hydraulics is a marine winches and capstans manufacturer.
Office: 288 west Batou road Ningbo PR China
Phone: +86 574 8611 5136
Contact: iniexport@china-ini.com
Website: https://www.cn-ini.com/
UNUM Genset is the designer of remote generator monitoring and
control systems applicable to most brands.
Office: Wagencontrol s.r.o., Holečkova 777/39, 150 00 Prague,
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 910 122 429
Email: info@unum-genset.com
Website: https://unum-genset.com/
