seatec - Finnish marine technology review 1/2007 | Page 26

Oilon burners are sailing the seven seas The marine industry has recently become 2350 kVA water cooled transformer. a fast-growing market for Oilon. Burners from the Finnish company now sail all over the world in luxury cruisers, containerships and tankers. Trafotek transformers for ships T rafotek Oy helps clients in solving challenges relating to the use of electricity and voltages. As a result clients will benefit from interference and trouble free operation of machinery. Strong references both in Finland and abroad are signs of Trafotek’s reliability and high quality products. Our principle of developing of operations focuses on quick, efficient and comprehensive customer service. Due to our strong know-how base, product development and sales operate hand in hand. Comprehensive, order based production and multi-skilled staff ensure flexibility of the company and continuity of production. Designs are based on utilisation of advanced calculation software, standardised cores and frames and prior calculations. There are already over 19 000 different existing transformer and reactor designs. The max. transformer power is 5 MVA with air natural cooling and 8 MVA with water cooling. The max. voltage is 11000 V. Our customers include many power electronics companies around the world and the ship building industry has been using Trafotek’s transformers over 20 years. Our product range consists of ship transformers, starting transformers and reactors, phase shift transformers, step-up & step-down transformers for frequency converter applications, water-cooled transformers and reactors, blocking reactors, du/dt filters, LC and LCL filters and sine filters. ■ 24 seatec 2007 ”B urner sales to the marine industry are hot just now. Marine burners are delivered all over the world almost every day. We are currently one of the most important suppliers of pressure jet burners for the marine industry,” explains Jari Kurikka, Oilon’s busy Sales Engineer. Oilon has extensive experience in manufacturing marine burners. The first Oilon burners sailed away over 40 years ago and some of them are still in use. But marine burner production really took off only a few years ago when Oilon found new partners in the marine industry. Fruitful partnerships have been formed with companies all over the world, such as Aalborg Industries and Kangrim, who have selected Oilon as one of their burner supplier. The Finnish shipbuilding industry has a long, glorious history, and Oilon has been a strong supporter of domestic marine expertise. I”Customers have given us a lot of positive feedback about our flexibility and our ability to meet special requests. Competitive prices have also helped things along,” smiles Kurikka. OILON MEETS CUSTOMER NEEDS During the last few years we have delivered a great variety of burners to meet different customer needs. Some customers have been satisfied