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About us

Aquass, created in 1995, a subsidiary of the Apave group, is the technical specialist in the port sector, which diagnoses, checks and advises you, thanks to its expertise, in the field of ageing and in particular on the specific subject of fatigue, of port equipment.

Thanks to its expertise and alongside Apave, Aquass has carried out numerous joint missions on hundreds of port equipment and installations.

Our know-how

  • Helping you to control your lifting and handling equipment
  • Improve the safety of people and the integrity of your equipment
  • Evaluate the residual life of your equipment

 

As the French leader in fatigue diagnosis by special assessment Aquass offers you its skills for a global offer to assist you in controlling your equipment. 

Did you know?

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On the Quai des Charbonniers in Saint-Nazaire, the big crane has reached a height of 35 m since 1976. It is capable of lifting loads of up to 400 tonnes such as electrical substations, tanks, engines, boats, etc... Aquass works on this big crane.

Our fields of intervention

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We can work on your equipment:

 

Lifting equipment

  • Port gantries
  • Rail cranes
  • Boat lifts
  • Offshore cranes
  • Overhead and gantry cranes
  • Mobile cranes
  • Specific accessories
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Continuous handling

  • Ship loaders/unloaders
  • Bucket elevators/extractors
  • Reclaimers
  • Belt conveyors
  • Screw conveyors

 

Mechanicals

  • Structures
  • Moving walkways
  • Lock and dry dock doors
  • Mechanisms
27
years of experience
In lifting structure engineering in the port sector
30
Missions per year
300
Diagnosis
In France and abroad
150
Clients

Our activities

Your equipment is strategic for your production, it handles dangerous and/or high added value loads with a high cost of ownership.

 

For your equipment, you need to :

  • Check their integrity according to their past, present and future operations
  • Evaluate their residual life
  • Perform risk-based predictive maintenance
  • Define appropriate maintenance and inspection plans
  • Analyse the causes of damage and malfunctions
  • Be supported in your equipment acquisition, renovation and repair projects

 

Ageing - Expertise

We have been working for more than 20 years on fatigue problems and the risks of failure in service due to the phenomenon of ageing. Based on the method recommended by the CETMEF, we have exercised our skills on more than 300 machines, both in ports and in industry. We have also developed our know-how in the search for the causes of accidents, damage or malfunctions. Our assignments can include detailed inspections, calculation checks (including modelling), recommendations to remedy problems, etc.

 

Assistance to project managers

Our team is at your disposal for all your major maintenance, revamping, new or second-hand purchase projects. We can help you in the various phases of your project: preliminary project, consultation, design, manufacture, assembly, testing and acceptance, operation, dismantling.

 

Digilife

Our Digilife system is designed to measure and record the parameters of your lifting equipment to:

  • Determine its degree of fatigue
  • Enable faster troubleshooting
  • Carry out investigations in the event of a major failure

It also performs direct calculations of:

  • Ageing levels of structures and drive trains as a whole
  • The main fatigue parameters on structural elements, allowing fatigue calculations of these elements based on modelling

Our expertise

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Engineering

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Calculations

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Modelling

Our Team

Business Engineer
Philippe Camy
Philippe CAMY
Manager
Business Engineer
Philippe Camy
Philippe CAMY
Manager
Aquass team
Nicolas Chrisostome
Nicolas CHRISOSTOME
Business Engineer
Aquass team
Nicolas Chrisostome
Nicolas CHRISOSTOME
Business Engineer
Aquass Team
Laid Eddouiaissi
Laïd EDDOUIAISSI
Calculation Engineer - Project Manager
Aquass Team
Laid Eddouiaissi
Laïd EDDOUIAISSI
Calculation Engineer - Project Manager
Aquass Team
Carole Lartigau
Carole LARTIGAU
Executive Assistant
Aquass Team
Carole Lartigau
Carole LARTIGAU
Executive Assistant
Aquass Team
Michel Peypoudat
Michel PEYPOUDAT
Expert consultant
Aquass Team
Michel Peypoudat
Michel PEYPOUDAT
Expert consultant

Why choose

Aquass?

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Full support

Experts in heavy lifting equipment, port, industrial, or other, Aquass masters the design, technology, risks and regulations.

Assistance for all phases of the equipment life cycle, from the analysis of the need to its dismantling.

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The reference in terms of fatigue diagnosis

Aquass has been performing fatigue diagnostics on lifting equipment since the risk was first identified.

Our methodolgy for analysing and calculating residual service lift is unrivalled, enabling the durability of a machine to be controlled by optimised overhaul.

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A relevant and pragmatic opinion

Aquass knows the problems of operators (availability, deadlines, costs, ...).

Our recommendations are technically relevant and pragmatic with regard to your constraints.