Feature 3
More modules from cabins
Aker Yards rationalises its cabin-building capability and invests heavily in
new capacity.
A
ker Yards Cabins, a business unit
launched last year by Aker Yards,
combines the cabin module
manufacturing businesses of Aker Yards
Cabins in Finland (previously known as
Piikkio Works) and Aker Yards Cabins
SAS in France. The unit is part of Aker
Yards Cruise & Ferries.
The business unit oversees 300 staff at
the two factories in Piikkio and Paimio in
Finland, and 200 at Montoir de Bretagne in
France, near Saint-Nazaire. The 22,000m
2
factory in France recently expanded from
five to eight lines of production.
Aker Yards Cabins in Finland also
The new panel production line of Aker Yards Cabins in Finland.
recently introduced another panel
production line at its factory in Piikkio, at
a cost of €3m. Here, new technology has products like doors, service hatches, and 2300 are crew cabins. The factories
been applied, increasing the automation and sandwich panels, which were not currently also produce cabins for Leirvik
level of wall and roof panel construction previously part of its product line. Module Technology, which is building the
and reducing the number of separate Aker Yards Cabins has an orderbook accommodation blocks for the offshore
steel parts (screws, strips etc) needed by safeguarding production until 2010. platforms Gjøa and Troll A. All cabins will
an estimated four million per year. In Currently the cabins for the first Genesis be delivered this year.
addition, the work needed for fastening cruiseship are keeping the Finnish During recent years, Aker Yards Cabins
has been much reduced. factories busy. Aker Yards Cabins is has also expanded to cover installation
According to the company, the producing some 7600 modular cabin onboard. Currently the company is
new panel production line increases units for the two vessels in the series, outfitting the cabin areas onboard Tallink’s
competitiveness and allows it to produce of which 5300 are passenger cabins ferry Galaxy 2. NA
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