TECDOS, Conveyor & Drive Technology for the Maritime Environment

RUD Chains Ltd, a leading manufacturer of high quality round steel chains offer unrivalled applications for mechanical engineering, hoisting, conveying and drive systems. With over 140 years of expertise to draw upon, you can be confident in the standard of their products. RUD's new TECDOS complete drive system has been setting high standards across many industries with its distinctive features. One of the most important advantages of TECDOS is that you can integrate RUD's heavy duty chains into a complete, optimally matched system, meaning that everything comes from on source. The strength and quality of the chain is exceptional. The breaking forces of the single chain strands range from 20 to 1287kN. The strongest strands can pull loads weighing more than 10,000 tonnes meaning it has the power to work successfully across even the most demanding environments. The complete TECDOS system is renowned for its robustness, its three dimensional mobility, ability to transmit great force into confined spaces, and the optimal storage capacity of the traction mechanism. TECDOS has been proving its worth across many industries, one in particular being the maritime environment. RUD coats the TECDOS system in their vigorous, innovative surface coating which protects the chain, giving it an exceptionally high resistance to corrosion. Due to the systems high durability and long service life TECDOS has been extremely popular when used underwater, offshore or in harbours. TECDOS has been used, tired and tested across many offshore environments and is now setting the standards across the industry. It has proven a great success for applications such as drives for deck cranes, ship loaders, transportation of bulk goods, to unique handling systems for the deployment of large structural fabrications on the seabed. The driving force of the complete system that TECDOS offers is that RUD can provide a solution and complete system to your problem, whether you are looking for a drive for a ship loader, to a solution for your turbine or a unique offshore application. RUD have the knowledge, technical experience and unrivalled success in the industry to aid their accent into providing complete drive systems to the market. Providing standard and tailored solutions to meet even the most demanding environments, RUD help to deliver applications that are catered to your requirements and project aims. For more information follow RUD Chains Ltd on Facebook & Twitter or visit www.rud.co.uk