Innovation
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Supporting start-ups and financing innovation
Poralu Marine is a proud supporter of young, start-up companies that adhere to our core values and offer solutions in the following domains:
- Protecting seas and oceans
- Collection of waste and garbage from harbours and coastal communities.
Since 2018, Poralu Marine has invested over €150,000 to finance, co-develop, and produce innovative, environmental marine solutions.
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Construction of floating solar panel farms
Presented with a unique project in 2012, and in its constant pursuit to offer solutions to complex challenges and needs; Poralu Marine installed a floating solar panel farm in Canoe Brook, New Jersey, USA. The platform for the solar panels was constructed using marine-grade aluminium and supported by roto-molded polyethene floaters/ floatation devices. The result: Clean production of photovoltaic energy whilst preserving the eco-habitat of the local environment.
By 2020, Poralu Marine will be installing a floating solar power plant facility at Lake Toules in Switzerland – a mountainous location, more than 1,800 metres above sea level, and also the world’s first floating power plant.
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THE SEARIAL CLEANERS creation
Activity grouping together innovative and complementary green technologies for the collection of marine waste in ports, marinas, inland waterways and on sandy beaches.
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The mooring star
Designed and shaped like a star, ‘the mooring star’ is a boat anchorage product that allows multiple vessels to tie up to a mooring buoy with a single anchor point. This unique product allows for marinas, or marine parks to increase their moorage supply whilst limiting their impact on the surrounding environment.
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Mega yacht anchorages
Nautiscaphe (a subsidiary of Poralu Marine) has designed and developed anchoring systems specifically for mega yachts. A steel alloy, screw-in embedment with helical blades, these anchoring solutions offer pull coefficients and strength that is significantly higher than other similar products – thereby accommodating mega yachts. And their minimal footprint which also promotes eco-habitat, preserves the seabed.
This anchoring system can be used for a range of other permanent or temporary marine uses such as connecting mooring buoys for marine parks, or for beacons to collect weather data to track patterns or issue alerts.
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Unique and tailor-made solutions
Poralu Marine designed and built a customised landing structure for the Dilbar, a 157m mega-yacht. In order to ensure safe moorage at the Billionaires Wharf in Port Vauban d’Antibes; Poralu Marine’s technical innovations team engineered, built and installed, ‘nautical cushions’ that covered the eleven docks and concrete float stabilisers which the Dilbar was tied to – protecting the majestic vessel’s hull.
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Mobideck®
Mobi-Deck® is an innovative moorage management system. Simply put, it increases the moorage capacity of a marina by 30-40% without any major works to the marina itself. The docks are mobile and move along a motorised, floating track system. They can move with boats tied to the docks, thereby creating a common maneuvering channel for boats to pass through.