The Metalast standard blend consists of various grades of mild steel. Metalast can adapt this product to meet your individual density and sizing requirements for marine ballast.
Marine Ballast
Marine Ballast is material that is used to provide stability to a vessel.
In the marine industry heavy weight fixed ballast and loose fill ballast is used to counterbalance the vessel. In sailing boats marine ballast is used to provide stabilty against the lateral effects of the wind on the the sails which could cause the vessel to tip or, in very high winds, to heel and in extreme cases even to capsize.
In the case of cargo vessels, bulk carriers or container ships, marine ballast is used to keep the vessel in trim, ensuring the propeller and rudder are submerged at all times.
Here are a few examples of how we have provided marine ballast weight products to the marine industry.
Metalast provided the VariDense ballast weight for this major rebuild project.
A world class 73M Luxury Mega Motor Yacht built in 2012. Metalast provided the chrome iron ballast for trimming during sea trials.
Metalast completed this project within 48 hours notice by using air freight to deliver the material to Monaco.
The largest ship in the Royal Navy’s fleet, built at Rosyth Shipyard, Scotland. Metalast supplied the specialised grade of VariDense heavyweight ballast material to Tarmac for use within their Ultiballast product. VariDense has also been specified for the heavy weight edition of the sister ship HMS Prince of Wales, currently in the building phase.
Metalast fulfilled an urgent request for 80 tonnes of VariDense to re-ballast this cruise liner after a major refit project prior to departing on its Christmas voyage.
Metalast supplied 400 tonnes of VariDense ballast for the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter. We supplied the material in 25kg bags to meet the specifications of the client.
Metalast supplied the ballast to Macduff Shipyards Limited that was required for this steel scallop trawler in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.