Type Approval

BW Treatment System Manufacturers List by USCG

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USCG’s Marine Safety Center has posted a list of manufacturer’s who submitted a Letter of Intent, or LOI, to pursue type approval for their ballast water management treatment system. The LOI is required to be submitted to the Coast Guard by the regulations in 46 Code of Federal Regulations Subpart 162.060-10(a).
The LOI notifies the Coast Guard of a manufacturer’s intention to conduct testing and submit a type approval application. As per the released list total 24 manufacturers have submitted the LOIs since 2012. Following is the list of manufacturers submitted the LOI with date of submission as per the list posted on USCG website.
  1. Alfa Laval PureBallast 8/13/2012
  2. BIO-UV 3/27/2015
  3. Coldharbour Marine 5/28/2015
  4. Desmi Ocean Guard A/S 2/7/2013
  5. Eaton 3/12/2014
  6. Ecochlor, Inc. 12/4/2014
  7. ERMA First Esk Engineering Solutions 10/1/2014
  8. Evoqua Water Technologies
  9. LLC 10/16/2014
  10. Headway Technology Co., Ltd 8/13/2014
  11. Hyde Marine 3/2/2015
  12. JFE Engineering Corporation 11/18/2014
  13. KSB Aktiengesellschaft 7/11/2014
  14. NK Company Limited 5/11/2015
  15. NEI Treatment Systems, LLC 2/6/2015
  16. Oceansaver AS 12/17/2014
  17. Optimarin AS 10/16/2014
  18. Panasia Co..LTD. 12/9/2013
  19. RWO GmbH, Marine Water Technology 6/26/2014
  20. Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd 6/24/2015
  21. Severn Trent DeNora 3/25/2015
  22. Sunrui Marine Environment Engineering Co., Ltd. 2/3/2015
  23. Trojan Marinex 4/28/2014
  24. Wartsila Senitec AB 4/17/2014
  25. Wuxi Brightsky Electronic Co. 4/29/2015
The Marine Safety Center will type approve a ballast water management system when the vendor, working with an independent lab, provides a completed test report and evaluation in accordance with the requirements found in 46 Code of Federal Regulations Subpart 162.060.
Source: USCG

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