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Solar Solve Marine, the British manufacturer of SOLASOLV® anti-glare, heat rejecting roller screens and ROLASOLV® fabric roller blinds for ships, has just won a contract to supply 55 ROLASOLV® screens to the cruise ship Caribbean Princess. Solar Solve Marine has supplied more than 150,300 screens and roller blinds to over 15,540+ ships worldwide since 1987, […]

The first order to be processed by South Shields based Solar Solve Marine in October, was for a consignment of SOLASAFE roller sunscreens, the company’s most popular product, to be shipped to the USA for installation at the wheelhouse windows of USNS Kanawha, a Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. […]

It was on 9th August 2006, 4 months before HRH The Duke of York officially opened Solar Solve Marine’s new Tyne Dock Facility, when two young men, Malcolm Craig and Mark Weatherburn joined the company as Production Technicians. They obviously do not regret the move because they are still here, more than 10 years later […]

South Shields based Solar Solve Marine recently dispatched a consignment of almost 150 Type Approved SOLASOLV Anti-Glare Roller Screens and ROLASOLV Roller Blinds of assorted shapes specifications to their Shanghai based Distributor. They are to be installed in the last 2 vessels in a series of 6 innovative Dragon 27,500 cubic metre Multi Gas Carriers […]

Following in the footsteps of a number of Tyneside based marine equipment and services suppliers, South Shields based Solar Solve Marine recently dispatched a consignment of 10 super sophisticated SOLASAFE anti-glare, heat reflecting roller sunscreens for the Flying Control room (FLYCO) windows of the Royal Navy’s new super aircraft carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH. As is […]

The 250th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, founder of South Shields Marine School, is being celebrated by the creation of the Dr. Winterbottom Charitable Fund, to help students in the UK and abroad. Dr. Winterbottom was born in South Shields on 26 March 1766, graduated in medicine in 1792 and was […]