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AB Karlstads Mekaniska Werkstad (''trans.'' Karlstad Mechanical Works Ltd), known as Kamewa, was a
Swedish
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manufacturing company in the city of
Kristinehamn
Kristinehamn is a locality and the seat of Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, with 17,839 inhabitants in 2010.
Geography
Kristinehamn is situated by the shores of lake Vänern where the small rivers ''Varnan'' and ''Löt'' dr ...
. Kamewa started as a brand name of the controllable-pitch
propeller
A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon ...
s manufactured by KMW. KMW was founded in the city of
Karlstad
Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 inhabitants in 2020 with 95,167 inhabitants ...
in 1860. KMW also manufactured pulp and paper machines for paper mills and hydro power turbines. Kamewa was acquired by the British company
Vickers plc
Vickers plc was the remainder of Vickers-Armstrongs after the nationalisation of three of its four operating groups: aviation (as a 50% share since 1960 of British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) in 1977), shipbuilding ( Vickers Limited Shipbuilding ...
in 1986. In 1999,
Rolls-Royce
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acquired Vickers.
In 2019 the Commercial Marine part of Rolls-Royce was acquired by the Kongsberg group and integrated into its maritime division Kongsberg Maritime. The Swedish part of the business is now called Kongsberg Maritime Sweden
AB and is based in Kristinehamn.
Water jets
The Kamewa
waterjets are still traded by Kongsberg Maritime under that name and are offered in five product lines in two product series.
Previous products from Kamewa has been the A-series, a mix flow pump in aluminum, the SII and P62 pumps in stainless steel and the Kamewa Advanced Propulsion Systems (APS) Waterjet developed specifically for the
Volvo Penta
Volvo Penta was founded as Penta in 1907 with the production of its first marine engine, the B1. The Penta company soon became an established internal combustion engine manufacturer, which in 1927 delivered the engine for Volvo's first passenge ...
diesel engine.
Propellers
Kongsberg also produces Kamewa and Kamewa Ulstein propellers.
U.S. Distributors
In 2016, Pacific Power Group was awarded the company's first distributorship to serve the Western U.S.
References
External links
* http://www.kongsberg.com/maritime/products/propulsors-and-propulsion-systems/
Defunct companies of Sweden
Rolls-Royce
Kongsberg Gruppen
Manufacturing companies established in 1860
1860 establishments in Sweden
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