Thursday, September 3, 2015

Pontoons or Floating platforms

pontoon or Floating platform is a flotation device with buoyancy sufficient to float itself as well as a heavy load. A pontoon boat is a flattish boat that relies on pontoons to float. Pontoons may be used on boats, rafts, barges, docks, airboats, hovercrafts, float planes or seaplanes. Pontoons may support a platform, creating a raft.
            A raft supporting a house-like structure is a houseboat. A fixed platform can be used as a dock. Common boat designs are a catamaran with two pontoons, or a trimaran with three. Pontoons may be simply constructed from sealed cylinders such as pipes or barrels, or fabricated as boxes from metal or concrete. Pontoon boat drafts may be as shallow as eight inches, which reduces risk of running aground and underwater damage. 
           The pontoon effect is when a large force applied to the side capsizes a pontoon boat without much warning, particularly a top-heavy boat.
Pontoon boats for pleasure boating and fishing can be low cost for their capacity, and cheaper to insure than other boats, even when equipped with substantial engines.

At VTech Solutions we provide total solution for Pontoon or Floating platform. We provide design manufacturing, installation and commissioning of Barge as per application on turnkey basis.


We have supplied many pontoons for marine application in India at various locations. The main purpose of these pontoons was to dewatering the mines.


Pontoon or floating platform is one of the best alternative for Pump houses in irrigation department.


Pump houses can be totally replaced by pontoons or floating platforms.







Thanks & Regards

Vijaykumar A. Kakade
VTech Solutions
9922955643
12/1, J SEI Block, Bhosari MIDC, PCMC, Pune 411026, Maharashtra, India.
(Design & Development of SPM, Jig & Fixture, Material Handling, Automation & Engineering Services.)

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