Injector’s Kiwi doors
Based on the principles that went into its Sparrow doors, Injector reports that its new Kiwi doors are fishing well.
25 years in the trawl door business
It’s fifty years since a metalworking company in the Danish west coast port of Thyborøn started making trawl doors, and for half of those years Ole Kjærgaard has been selling Thyborøn Skibssmedie’s distinctive blue trawl doors as its markets around the world have continued to expand.
Vónin’s Tornado breakthrough
Vónin has brought a new level of sophisticated construction to its trawl doors, bringing together five foils with the company’s patented flow booster, precisely managing and accelerating the flow of water through and past the doors’ surfaces to maximise lift.
Thyborøn Trawldoor celebrates its 50th anniversary
On this occasion, we would like to meet colleagues, cooperation partners and suppliers for an informal anniversary reception.
Morgère recruits design engineer
St Malo fishing gear company Morgère has appointed François Charrayre as its new design engineer.
Slider doors from Thyborøn offer more flexibility
The Slider is a new variant on Thyborøn Trawl Doors’s Flipper doors. While the Flippers have hinged sections that can be folded into place and bolted down to stay there, the Slider’s flaps move on runners.
Tornados take off
The first pair of Vónin’s new pelagic trawl doors has been tested at sea with some highly encouraging results.
Successful Exocets
Launched in January last year, Morgère’s Exocet trawl doors have been just the success Michel Dagorn had expected them to be.
Successful tests with steerable doors
Steerable trawl doors from Icelandic company Polar Fishing Gear look likely to become available later this year as the first full-scale sea trials carried out last month were highly successful.
Ten years of Hydrowing doors
Polar Fishing Gear has celebrated ten years of its Hydro-wing trawl doors, as in March 2006 a 12 square metre pair of Mars doors went on board Ísfélag’s Snorri Sturluson for fishing redfish and later that same year a pair was supplied to Sjólaskip for its operations off West Africa.
