The shipyard, Royal Van Lent, plans to upgrade its facilities at the Port of Amsterdam, aiming to enable the build of larger super yachts of up to 160 meters in length. Under this upgrade, Trelleborg’s marine and infrastructure operation has supplied one Gina gasket to the facility’s new floating dry dock.
The floating dry dock door will utilize the gasket to avoid leakage, and make sure that mega yachts are not exposed to humidity or water during the construction process.
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The gasket is able to ensure watertight closure, tolerance bandwidth and low jacking force because of its variation in hardness. In addition, it enables less fixation materials on the dry dock door.
It is made of natural rubber that varies in hardness to provide a variety of hydrostatic pressure and was supplied as a U-frame, to seal the dry dock door.
