Thomsea Trawl Nets Clean Oil From Water And Near Coastlines

As sea traffic increases on a regular basis, so does the transport of dangerous matters and, as a result, the risk of accidents. This summer's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest occurence, and the need for efficient oil clean-up is growing. Thomsea's trawl nets, available in different capacities, have a proven track record in recovering waste from open water and near coastlines.

Thomsea is part of a group of French depollution companies visiting the Gulf of Mexico during the week of August 23, 2010. The company will travel to Houston and New Orleans for business meetings, site visits, and a press conference with technology demonstrations on August 26 in New Orleans.

In response to the 1999 accident of the Erika oil tanker, Thierry Thomazeau, a French fishing vessel owner, helped the French National Navy to contain and collect the oil spill at high seas. From this experiment, the French company Thomsea was created with the goal of designing, manufacturing and selling new and efficient systems to filter and collect all types of maritime pollution, from macro waste to light or viscous bituminous materials, on open water as well as close to shores.

The patented Thomsea trawl nets, with respective collection capacities of two tons and eight tons, were largely and successfully used during the last large oil spill in France, of the Prestige tanker in 2003.

Recognized by the French authorities and organizations (CEDRE – French Navy – SYCOPOL), Thomsea became a unbeatable name in the fight of maritime pollution. Its trawl nets were deployed after several accidents and today they remain on-hand for the whole of the French national territory, including overseas territories. Thomsea also exports in more than five countries to date. In 2010 for example, the Moroccan harbor authorities adopted the trawl nets for its national plan of maritime pollution protection. The U.S. subsidiary, Thomsea International LLC, was most recently created in order to answer the growing number of requests, outside of Europe, for innovating solutions that offer a high oil recovery rate and the highest recovery efficiency.

In addition to these easy-to-use and reliable systems that are complementary to traditional systems used by the oil spill contractors, Thomsea developed a tool that can be very easily used by fishermen. A trained flotilla and equipped with THOMSEA trawl nets can quickly collect several hundred tons of viscous hydrocarbon product, where the performance of some of today's systems remain limited. This concept is the subject of a new project called Sentinel that Thomsea promotes through the Grenelle Environment intiative.

Thomsea constantly develops new products, ready to bring new tools to professionals, in the maritime, fishing and offshore oil sectors.

For more information, visit www.thomsea.com

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