The Ballast-Crete ® Advantage

Sea water, concrete ballast, mud and iron ore concentrates can't fulfill the special needs that Ballast-Crete® can.

It's an inert, inorganic composition free of bacteria. In fact, Ballast-Crete® inhibits bacterialogical growth. Because it's flowable during placement, it fills all of the voids in the double bottom tank of a ship, so the problems normally associated with other ballasts are avoided.

Ambient temperature isn't a problem for Ballast-Crete® either. Successful placement can be performed in temperatures ranging from 00 to 1200 F (-17.8 to 48.9o C).

Complex jobs are made simple with Ballast-Crete®. Density can be adjusted to fit your exact requirements and can even vary by sections of the ship to achieve optimum placement. We've even varied density during installation, achieving adjustments of plus or minus thirty pounds per cubic foot (480 kg/m3), to accomodate last minute specification adjustments.

Due to its thixotropic nature, Ballast-Crete® can be removed in discrete quantities for the repair or modification of your ship.

No job is too big or too small for Ballast-Crete®. Our placements have ranged from 6,000 long tons (6096 tonnes) on container ship conversions to 40 long tons (40.6 tonnes) on small dredges. And if you're worried about limited access to your ballast tanks, Ballast-Crete's® pumping process allows placement in even the most challenging of situations. Successful shipyard installations have been made through pumping systems of up to 1000 feet (305 +/- meters) in length.