Cruise Liners
CIP Marine Composite Bearings are great for cruise liners that need reliability and long wear life.  CIP Marine is best utilized as a water lubricated material for stern tube bushings, fin stabilizers, rudder and thruster bushings.  CIP Marine Composites are manufactured with solid lubricants allowing excellent performance in wet or dry running applications.  Salt water does not bother this non metallic, noncorrosive composite bearing material.  CIP Marine can be machined with multi-grooves for water lubrication.  Columbia Industrial Products offers custom sizes to accommodate for the larger ships and offers tubes ready to machine.  The environmentally friendly bearing material is an ideal replacement for bronze, rubber or urethane based materials.  CIP Marine was designed with optimal coefficients of frictions and compressive strengths to give customers quiet operations.  CIP Marine, as composite stern tube and rudder bearings are approved by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).